Productivity: Applying Psychology to Achieve Your Goals (Udemy.com)
Learn research based techniques to hack the productive process, improve time management, business and study skills.
Created by: Richard Feenstra
Last updated September 2016
What you will learn
- Set goals using the proven SMART technique.
- Manage time using the Eisenhower Matrix.
- Avoid psychological biases in planning and task management.
- Boost productivity by reducing distractions and managing sleep.
How it compares
Against the other 143 rated Udemy courses in Productivity on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 69% of them
- Reviews138#119 of 144 by number of reviews
- Length0.7 hoursshorter than 95% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2016earlier than 95% of them
Course Description
My third course in a series, learn how to Increase your productivity and achieve your goals by understanding the psychology that drives success. This course is designed as a resource that provides research backed techniques and strategies that you can use to help boost your productivity.
When you enroll, you gain access to a number of lectures that will teach you how to maximize your time, set goals and avoid several psychological biases that impact productivity. From learning how to shift from long term vision to short term action, to understanding the impacts of sleep on productivity, the course offers a range of interesting and valuable concepts that can be applied in the real world to help achieve more success.
This course focuses on both common and lesser known techniques including, but not limited to;
SMART Goals
The Zeigarnik Effect
Impacts of Multitasking
Using the Eisenhower Matrix, and
The Planning Fallacy
The target audience for this course are entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, students or anyone interested in learning how to maximize their time. Regardless if you have never previously taken a productivity course or if you are already highly productive, I guarantee this course has at least one concept you can use to help achieve your goals in less time.
The structure of the course intentionally limits each lecture to a single concept that is independently supported, allowing you the flexibility to either go straight through the course from start to finish or to pick and choose only those lectures and concepts with which you are unfamiliar without having to worry about losing understanding.
"Achieve Your Goals: The Psychology of Productivity", is my latest course to supplement two other courses that I teach, "Become a Creative Genius: Keys to Successful Innovation", and "Simplify Your Problems: The Psychology of Choice". When you enroll in one of my courses, you are joining thousands of students that have benefited from the series.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
138 Reviews
Richard Feenstra
Hi, I’m Richard, an educational psychologist specializing in decision making and goal achievement. For more than 20 years, I’ve researched how people from different cultures make important life and performance decisions.
I hold an M.S. in Workforce Development and a Ph.D. in Learning & Technology. My courses translate research on decision making and goal theory into practical tools you can apply immediately to make better choices, improve performance, and achieve meaningful results.
Contact: richard@decisionskills.com
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Reviews
By Tesh Home on 4/27/2023
One of the most valuable aspects of the course is its emphasis on the role of psychology in productivity. By understanding how the mind works and how behaviour can be influenced, the course provides a range of strategies that can help individuals to achieve their goals more effectively.
By Joao Augusto Silva Cruz on 5/23/2022
You can safely buy any course by this guy. Well designed, simple, direct to the point, gives you the most valuable info in a digestable way. You can rewatch it as many times as you can, cause' probably you not gonna get all the wisdom inside here in the first run.
By Nancy Cothrum on 6/6/2020
The course was easy to understand and very informative in the different techniques for success in Productivity. Then to realize you did the Zeigarnik effect without a thought was interesting. Thank you very much for this course. I look forward to implementing and referring back for a refresher when I need to.
By Erich Angermayr on 8/19/2018
This course is an excellent refresher of time-tested techniques in goal-setting and productivity improvement. Best of all, all the methods presented are easy to use in your daily life and activities. The lectures have the right length, are engaging and never dull. Recommended.
By Sayyoni Johri on 6/19/2018
It was very engaging and i could relate to it very well i look forward to using these amazing techniques to improve my everyday life and become productive the best part is it helps understand other people and their everyday life and the studies and examples help relate better!
By Luis Javier Smith Fontana on 5/1/2018
Excellent information and great explanation of diverse productivity enhancers! I am no expert in this area, but I think the course is very well tailored to help anyone wanting to acquire these skills. I was able to apply different techniques immediately after learning them. The various methods were interesting to learn. This area of my life was were I needed improvement and I feel I have definitely gained that. Thanks Richard!
By Alex Myers on 6/16/2017
I was a big fan of this prof's SMART model course. This was good but didn't meet the high expectations I had.
By Morgan A. McAfee on 7/9/2015
Dr. Feenstra's course on productivity was just what I needed as a refresher ... Although I am typically a self-regulated individual, I have not been very productive of late. However, this course provided some great practical suggestions, reminding me about some of the behaviors I need to incorporate into my routine to increase my productivity. I highly recommend the course.
By Manish Barik on 4/15/2015
The Title and Thumbnail are too enticing to capture you to join the course immediately. But surprisingly, I didn't find the course worth to join. I lost the interest in the very first lecture when I heard the audio quality. Even though the Instructor says that the lessons are based upon his learnings while he was on 911, but all those lectures seemed to be an accumulation of relevant articles which you can easily find online and I believe you are going to find those articles to be much more informative. If the Instructor could have taken the time and provided some more examples like telling us through a story of Jim Toby (a fictional name) or any such character, then it would have been engaging and easy to grasp. PROS None so far CONS * Poor audio * Unprofessional video
By James Keirstead on 4/11/2015
This course has managed to pack a lot of useful information - as well as the research behind it - into a concise and accessible format. Well done! Feenstra is engaging and easy to listen to, and the visuals clearly reinforce the lessons. Practical takeaways are made simple and accessible as well.
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