Course details
90 minutes of video. 15 lessons at your own pace. 1 opportunity to revolutionize the way you work and live.
This is the new Udemy version of the award-winning, #1-selling Skillshare class on how to double your productivity by designing your workflow.
Why should I take this class?
Productivity is one of the most fundamental forces in your life - every 2% increase frees up a whole extra week per year.
We all make the same New Year's resolutions: Get organized. Finish that project. Get back on track. Make progress toward my goals. But how many of us have an actionable plan for making these things happen?
In this class, I will show you how to adopt productivity behaviors that bring you automatically, day by day, toward your goals. Grand, heroic efforts are great for the movies, but in real life it is the small habits you've built into your life that make the biggest difference in the end.
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What is Workflow Design?
It is a new approach to productivity that combines the best of traditional productivity thinking centered around efficiency (such as the Getting Things Done method), with new ideas in user experience design that emphasize the holistic experience of work.
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What's your story?
I started learning about productivity after returning from 2 years in the Peace Corps. Diving headfirst into a demanding environment working among startups in San Francisco, I tried everything I could - from ergonomics and sprints to self-tracking and time management - to manage my work and get more done with less effort.
After more than a year of experimentation, I managed to increase my productivity by 341% in 8 months. Click here to see a presentation I gave at the Quantified Self Silicon Valley meetup on how I tracked this.
But just as importantly, I found an approach to the projects and goals in my life that keeps me balanced and organized, not as a utopian, magazine-style ideal, but as a practical starting point for actually getting more stuff done.
In this class I've condensed hundreds of hours of researching, experimenting, teaching, and coaching into 90 minutes of video lessons and 1 hands-on project.
In order to create your workflow, in this course we will:
- Centralize your to dos, projects, and commitments in one place
- Minimize clutter in your digital and physical environment to promote focus
- Organize and align your tasks, projects, responsibilities, and goals in a simple, yet comprehensive system
- Automate your routine (but still necessary) activities so you have more time to focus on "deep work"
- Iterate on your workflow based on measurable results
Above: my talk on productivity at Evernote (video)
Above: teaching this course at the Parisoma startup incubator in San Francisco (video)
Who the Course Is For
This course is for knowledge workers, creatives, entrepreneurs, students, freelancers, small business owners, managers - any professional that wants to be more efficient so they can spend more time doing what they're passionate about (or just relaxing more!).
It is for absolute beginners - don't worry if you are not a productivity geek or a tech wizard.
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This Class Includes:
- Condensed overview of key GTD and Workflow Design principles, delivered via narrated slidecasts
- Interactive exercises and quizzes
- A step-by-step project walkthrough using programs compatible with all major desktop and mobile platforms
- Recommendations on the best tools for productivity
- A list of highly curated resources for going deeper
Other productivity seminars cost hundreds of dollars and require traveling to certain cities. This class costs a fraction of the price, plus you get:
- Online content available forever on any device
- Continually evolving recommendations for specific apps and other tools
- Peer feedback and a community of fellow learners
- Weekly instructor involvement to answer questions and provide feedback
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Join me on this journey to find out how much more you are capable of.
Hope to see you soon!
Tiago
Awards and press for GSD.LAB:
- The New York Times
- EduWin award for innovation in education
- Inc.
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*Intro video by Pierre Conti at oneantred.com
*GTD ® and Getting Things Done ® are registered trademarks of The David Allen Company, and this course is not endorsed by or affiliated with them in any way.
Updated on 30 December, 2017