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Developing Effective Time Management Habits (Udemy.com)

Manage Yourself, Your Work Environment, Technology and Avoid Time Stealers

Created by: Sorin Dumitrascu

Last updated November 2025

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What you will learn

  • understand how factors within your working environment affect use of time
  • apply techniques for managing paperwork, improve the physical organization of your office
and apply simple time-saving procedures
  • use technology to improve time management, control e-mails and use IT organizer systems
  • be able to avoid time stealers, understand people respond to demands, avoid reverse delegation, beat procrastination and manage interruptions.

How it compares

Against the other 143 rated Udemy courses in Productivity on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.0 out of 5higher than 1% of them
  • Reviews316#101 of 144 by number of reviews
  • Length2.6 hourslonger than 63% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 69% of them

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Course Description

Do you want to work smarter and have more time for yourself? Do you want to consistently achieve good results and reach your objectives? Do you want to spend more time with your family and friends?

Stop wasting your time!

Change your work habits! It's easy and you can learn here how. You just need to acquire or develop good habits in three areas: work environment, technology and “time-stealers."

You will learn how to control your work environment, how to use technology to help you be more efficient, how to respond to unreasonable demands of others, how to prevent procrastination and avoid “time-stealers".

Learning Objectives

  1. You will learn how to develop the habits that you need to be in control of your time, and stop reacting inefficiently to demands that are made on you.
  2. And, you will learn how to organize your work environment, and how to employ technology so that it is serving you and not waste your time.
  3. You will also understand "time stealers", and develop strategies to prevent the waste of time they represent.

Good time management habits don't happen by accident. Learn, practice and be consistent. You will get here the exact techniques to do so.

Course Target

So, if you want to improve your time management skills this course is for you.

Course content

You will have video lectures that include real examples, exercises and case studies; quizzes to check your knowledge level and a small optional course project to help you practice your time management skills.

You have a 30 days money back guarantee, no question asked. And, the discounted access to many other management and personal development courses.

Apply now!

Now, go ahead. Apply for the course! Just hit the “Take this course" button, or if you want to find out more take the free preview and then decide.

Thank you! And, see you inside the course!

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Instructor Details

Sorin Dumitrascu

I'm Sorin Dumitrascu. I work as an advisor for an international humanitarian organization. Until 2025 I was City Manager of Ploiești, Romania (a city budget of about EUR 200 million), and earlier I was Deputy Director General of Romania's prison service. Since 2015 I have published nearly 200 courses here, taken by more than 360,000 learners.

I'm a public manager and a trainer of trainers, with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering practical courses in management, human resources, project, program and portfolio management, business analysis, operations and finance.

I teach what I practice. I have led and advised projects for the United Nations, the European Union, NGOs and private companies, with a focus on measurable results in organizational performance, industrial relations, prisons and corrections, and adult education.

My courses are built for busy professionals:

- Courses that prepare you for PMI and HR certification exams, plus Six Sigma

- Real case studies from the public sector and from companies

- Templates, checklists and practice resources you can use right away

- Clear, step-by-step lessons with practical assignments

Education: MSc in Policy Making in the European Union (Loughborough University, UK); Bachelor in Administrative Sciences (Public Administration), University of Craiova; Public Manager Diploma, National Institute of Administration (Romania).

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Reviews

4.0

316 ratings on Udemy

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By Maajid Ghazi Mehmood Sheikh on 12/11/2022

The pace and presentation makes things very confusing, while there's good content, the lack of proper presentation makes this very boring.

By Eugenia Sniders on 8/23/2022

I have a busy life, and I need all the help I can get to manage my time. This course is exactly what I needed. Sorin Dumitrascu has a great course with very useful information on developing effective time management habits. I loved the real life examples, and the fact that he encourages you to work at your own pace and revisit concepts as often as you need. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to learn how to be more productive and save time.

By Megan Taylor on 7/21/2022

This course is great for anyone who is looking to improve their time management skills. This course is a great starting point for anyone who is looking to learn more about time management. The course is well-organized, easy to follow, and it breaks down time management in an easy-to-understand way. I would recommend this course to anyone who is looking to learn more about time management for the first time, or to anyone who wants to brush up on their time management skills.

By Roberts Taylor on 7/16/2022

I was looking for an easy to follow guide that would teach me how to effectively manage my time and found this. Udemy is a great tool that allows you to learn at your own pace. The instructor is great and teaches you everything you need to know about managing your time. The course is interactive and you get to learn by doing. I really liked the fact that the course was divided into different sections and that it was easy to follow. It's a great course that will help you manage your time better.

By Elena Farrell on 4/12/2022

The Developing Effective time Management Habits course may not have been the first online course I took but it has helped me nearly every day. If you are passionate about accumulating new skills, or even strengthening the ones you already have, this course is for you. Sorin Dumitrascu teaches in a way that truly personalizes the experience, which makes it both fascinating and excellent. It's a definite recommendation whether you are a novice like I was when I first started working this program or if you are an advanced learner looking to dig your heels deeper into diverse topics related to operating at full speed without getting burned out as well as discovering how to effectively manage other people who might be wasting your time (others' and yours).

By DMNinja on 11/30/2019

The content itself was extremely useful, although the presentation felt a bit unintuitive and repetitive between lecture modules. I highly suggest taking personal notes parallel to the course. Other than that, more diversity in the example types would allow for better understanding of the subject

By Milena Y. on 12/23/2018

I was really impressed with the experience and depth of knowledge of the instructor. The covered all the topics with real-life examples to help you succeed. I really found the material on stage presence and presentation helpful. I was able to get an idea of what it felt like to actually be speaking. Great overall course for beginner to intermediate in my opinion. He made the small details that lead to success understandable in everyday terms! I have already signed up for another course with them.

By David O'Sullivan on 8/24/2017

Good, but could be improved with a bit more emphasis on practical, real life scenarios that present problems and how to overcome them.

By Pia Goss on 6/7/2017

Not only, the course did give me a proper opportunity to define what are the things I want to achieve and do small five minute tasks every day with that end game in mind, I was able to learn a lot from this course. I almost felt the real emotion and imagined the real situation, and the lessons learned under severe circumstances. The overall message and learning make you feel truly empowered.

By Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett on 11/18/2016

Sound content and materials- definitely worth watching. Pleasant presentation- I'm definitely glad I found this course and am looking forward to applying what I learned. I do have some constructive feedback, though. When editing the audio portion, it seems like all pauses were automatically shortened to the same length, which leaves very little "space" or silence between sentences. Would be more effective if pauses were spread more naturally. The slide background is very appealing, but the transparent "floating" elements are a bit distracting. All in all, this is a great course and I am looking forward to taking another class with this instructor.

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