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Optimising Personal Productivity Course

Course summary

This personal productivity, effectiveness and efficiency course will help you create even more from your biggest asset – your time – and experience even greater fulfilment in the process.

Studies show self-esteem increases when we produce or create things or experiences that are of value. In this digital age, the challenge isn’t lack of time. After all, what is common to all of us is the fact that we all have challenges and we all have the same amount of time – 24 hours, 7 days a week. Yet the exceptional create more, and with significantly more impact than the average.

The solutions – value and take charge of your time, be clear on what is most important, develop the discipline and good habits to focus on what’s most important, and create and put empowering energy into all that you do.

This course provides all four solutions and covers four primary objectives. Firstly, to develop the mindset of being proactive and taking charge of your time. Secondly, to help you get clear on what is most important to you. Thirdly, to develop the right mindsets, skills and habits to radically enhance your personal energy and output. Finally, to sharpen your focus and eliminate distracting inputs that slow down progress.

Aims

This course provides a practical, hands-on approach to increasing personal effectiveness, energy, efficiency, and output. We aim to empower you with the mindsets, skills, strategies, and habits that enable optimal productivity and elevate personal fulfilment in these digital times of constant disruption and change.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

  • appreciate the difference between managing energy and managing time
  • apply a personal productivity wheel tool to understand what’s most important and how to set goals effectively
  • apply the 80/20 principle to focus on what is important
  • adopt elite productivity mindsets
  • create habit systems and rituals to elevate energy, sharpen focus and eliminate distractions
  • quickly plan your days and weeks and learn how to work efficiently on the go.

Content

Managing energy versus managing time

  • Energy versus time
  • Productivity versus fulfilment
  • Being proactive and taking ownership of your time

Effective goal setting and creating balance

  • Defining what’s most important
  • Using the life and professional wheel
  • Effective goal setting

Putting first things first

  • Critical versus important tasks
  • Developing the discipline to put first things first
  • How to say “no” and delegate effectively

Energy rituals and minimising distractions

  • Creating the energy to optimise your productivity and experience
  • Energy rituals
  • Optimising focus and managing your environment to eliminate distractions

Who this course is for

Analysts, business professionals, managers, IT knowledge workers and lifelong learners looking to master their time, energy, and personal output.

Prerequisites

None. While some participants may have experience in time-management and productivity, this course is designed with the beginner in mind.

Delivery modes

  • Face-to-face, presenter-taught workshop
  • Online workshop via the platform Zoom

Delivery style

Explosive productivity will be taught through a series of concepts, examples, group exercises, and in-class knowledge challenges. The material is presented so that participants of varying backgrounds, skills and abilities can all move together in a brisk but comfortable learning pace.

Utilising principles of productivity, effectiveness, efficiency and time and energy management, the course material and timeline are structured to optimise learning and value add.

Materials

Course notes are distributed electronically using Dropbox before class.

Course Brochure

Sessions

Tue 27 Jul 2027
11pm - 7am (UTC0:00)

Location

Online via Zoom

Other information

Our online via Zoom courses are interactive and delivered in real-time. You will have the chance to ask questions and join in activities, just as you would in any in-person class.

Our facilitators are well versed in Zoom delivery and will skillfully guide you in your online learning journey.

Instructions regarding how to connect to online classes will be sent to participants about 4 days before the class commences.

Meet the facilitators

Andrew Davey

Andrew Davey’s wisdom is sought after internationally through his authentic gift as an inspirational speaker to inspire and move his audience from within. As a trainer and coach with a passion for human empowerment through self-leadership has allowed him to touch the lives of thousands of individuals of all ages through eleven different countries.

Some have learned through traditional forms of education and become an expert on a topic. They share because they have something to say. Andrew lives and breathes his definition of success and leads by example through real world application where his personal development journey led to a series of experiences through life that leads with a light to show others the way. From a successful start-up business in his 20’s, employing staff and learning all facets of business from the ground-up to now supporting others in leading their staff through challenges in times of growth.

His unique background of personal success in business at a very early age now serves both individual clients through the modality of executive coaching to organisations throughout Australia and the ASEAN region. Organisations such as LJ Hooker Real Estate, Nissan Motor Company, AHG, Reedify, SATS, Four Trimesters, Citibank, Globalfoundries, Changi Airport Group, Beam Suntory, IBPA, RYB Education, Singapore Airlines, Positive Real Estate, Platinum Coaching Corporation, AKLTG, Skyworks, Esker, Singapore Airlines, Surbana Jurong, DBS Bank, YASG, PT JAS and many more.

Andrew now shares his passion for business culture transformation aligned with human empowerment to deliver on his promise and mission of inspiring individuals to be their very best.

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