About the Productivity Training Courses
The Faculty of Productivity offers a wide range of training programs and resources to help individuals and organisations improve their productivity and achieve their goals. In today’s fast-paced world, time is a precious commodity, and businesses must learn to work smarter, not harder. The Faculty’s training programs cover topics such as time management, goal setting, project management, and process improvement.
These courses provide practical tools and techniques to help participants optimise their workflows and increase efficiency. The Faculty also offers consulting services to help organisations identify areas for improvement and develop tailored productivity strategies. By partnering with the Faculty of Productivity,
individuals and organisations can increase their productivity, achieve their goals, and drive long-term success.
Explore our full range of Productivity Training Courses
- Understanding the fundamentals of DISC behavioural styles
- Analysis of each person’s individual DISC report
- Analysis of the collective team in relation to the DISC quadrant
- Natural momentum and how to use recesses and elevations to make the most of energy levels
- The different styles of time management and understanding the styles of each employee
- Applying Parkinson’s law
- The four D’s of task management and which tasks fall into which category
- Techniques for managing both human and electronic interruptions
- The performance management model and how it improves outcomes
- Goal setting using the goal setting ladder model
- Defining, improving, and controlling processes
- Reducing waste
- Preventing mistakes
- Lowering costs
- Facilitating and identifying training opportunities
- Engaging staff
- Setting organisation-wide direction
- Communicating a readiness to produce consistent results
- Comfortable creating a new spreadsheet, working with some common formulas and functions
- Able to make a spreadsheet look professional and presentable
- Communicate to your team in an easily understood way including creation of Rosters, Key Performance Indicator calculations and more
- Ability to understand and create spreadsheets to represent data and influence business decisions
- Knowledge required to create complex formulas to make sense of detailed information
- Present information in visually digestible charts making data easy to understand for everyone
- Understand how to get multiple spreadsheets talking to each other, to gather and summarise key information
- Source external information to back up and support presented data
- Time saving data analysis
- Create complex formulas to present information in an easy-to-understand way
- Troubleshoot data issues without having to call the IT Department
- Ability to create a basic document and format it to present well
- Understanding of how Microsoft Word works to get the best out of it
- Become proficient in Microsoft Word
- Utilise Word how it was intended and save time in the process
- Create beautifully presented documents
- Secure documents to comply with privacy laws
- Collaborate with multiple employees enabling edits and improvements efficiently
- Manage large documents by creating master documents
- Use PowerPoint to tell your story
- Add graphics, text, 3D animations and video
- Use tables, charts and pictures to display information
- Using PowerPoint well
- Using the Teams interface
- How to communicate in Teams using communication channels
- Customise your channels to add functionality
- Manage your Teams profile
- Keep your inbox clear of emails awaiting action
- Have a reliable process for following up emails/completing to-do items
- Ensure you are only handling emails once, then scheduling their completion
- Solve the problem of missing or forgetting to reply to important emails
- Keep your calendar clear so people can book meetings with you
- Prevent customers or colleagues from having to chase you
- Stop hitting “Snooze” or “Dismiss” on your calendar pop-up reminders
- Discard your notebook where you hand write (and re-write) your to-do list everyday
- Easily find emails in your inbox, no matter how old they are
- Reduce the clutter in your inbox, only keep what’s important
- Be certain that you have the email you’re looking for
- Never lose an important email again
- Create a robust folder structure to facilitate filing and keep your inbox clean
- Stop wasting the time filing or deleting unnecessary emails, declutter with just a click
- Focus on the important and urgent emails first (fast!)
- Ensure you are not reading emails multiple times before actioning (double or triple handling)
- Solve the problem of missing or forgetting to reply to important emails
- Create a tier system that covers different priority levels
- Concentrate on the emails that YOU deem important
- Prevent customers or colleagues from having to chase you
- Be proactive in your inbox – build streamlined processes for the repetitive actions you perform in Outlook
- Create a one-stop shop for all the common steps you take when actioning emails – often multiple actions occur with only one click
- Develop a purpose-filled response to managing emails – you won’t feel stuck with what to do
- Achieve more in fewer clicks
- Build an efficient, reliable habit that results in consistent action in managing emails
- Execute an easy system that’s simple to maintain even under pressure
- Discover which emails you don’t need to see and a way to work out what needs to be visible and what doesn’t
- Stop receiving emails that don’t concern you
- Develop a system where you are not bothered by less important emails and notifications – read them when it Suits you
- Understand the most useful rules to apply, for internal & external emails
- Build rules that work consistently, not broken rules that stop working
- Create set & forget rules – set up once and they work everyday
- Execute an easy way to manage the noise ongoing
- Discover which emails you can develop into templates to streamline your processes
- Implement an easy-to-use template system within Outlook
- Solve the problem of employees sending out inconsistent information to your clients
- Create templates for all sorts of emails – whether an entire email, a paragraph or just a sentence
- Set & forget email templates you can access with just one click
- Build templates & Checklists for internal or external use