Productivity Certificate Program (Self-Paced)
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Self-paced online training with expert support Certificate with 5 courses

Strengthen your productivity with a comprehensive certificate designed to help you prioritize effectively, manage your time, communicate clearly, and stay organized. This certificate provides practical tools and strategies that empower professionals to work more efficiently and achieve stronger results across their daily responsibilities.

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This program includes

  • 54 hours of project-based training from experts
  • Answers from real instructors
  • Retake for free within 1 year
  • Verified digital certificate of completion
  • Learn at an accredited institution
  • Credits: 5.4 CEUs

This course is self-paced. For live online or in-person instruction, take Productivity Certificate Program.

The certificate delivers a powerful set of courses that build essential workplace skills including prioritization, communication, organization, and time management. Participants learn practical strategies to manage competing demands, maintain focus, streamline workflows, and eliminate common productivity barriers that impact performance.

Designed to strengthen overall effectiveness, the certificate includes five targeted courses—Managing Multiple Priorities, Effective Meetings, Listening and Memory Development, Time Management, and Interpersonal Communications. Together, they provide tools to help professionals plan with intention, communicate clearly, work collaboratively, and stay in control of daily responsibilities. This certificate offers a well-rounded development path for individuals seeking to enhance productivity and achieve stronger results in their roles.

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Courses in this Certificate Program

This is the recommended order, but some courses may be taken in a different order.

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Unit 1 6 Hours

Managing Multiple Priorities Course (Self-Paced)
  • Identify and resolve barriers to setting priorities.
  • Prioritize tasks based on degree of importance and urgency.
  • Apply the SMART goal-setting system.
  • Plan your time more efficiently.
  • Eliminate time wasters.
  • Organize and handle paperwork and files efficiently.

Unit 2 12 Hours

Effective Meetings Course (Self-Paced)
  • Determine situations when a meeting is (or is not) an appropriate tool to use to accomplish a specific purpose. 
  • Explain the importance of defining a meeting's purpose or desired outcome.
  • Define the role of the meeting leader, timekeeper, recorder, and participant.
  • Practice conducting portions of meetings.
  • Construct a timed agenda to keep a meeting on topic and on time.
  • Identify tips to plan and prepare for challenging meetings.

Unit 3 12 Hours

Listening and Memory Development Course (Self-Paced)
  • Understand aspects of effective listening.
  • Adjust listening habits to become better listeners.
  • Improve listening skills.
  • Learn the capacities of the brain to remember.
  • Apply a variety of memory enhancement techniques.

Unit 4 12 Hours

Time Management Course (Self-Paced)
  • Recognize the benefits of time management, evaluate productivity, identify goals and set priorities.
  • Use technology to save time instead of waste time.
  • Maintain a reasonable workload by managing expectations.
  • Increase productivity by controlling interruptions and meetings, and recognize factors that adversely affect productivity.
  • Avoid information overload by identifying causes, screening information, controlling paperwork, using a filing system to organize your office and communicating effectively.

Unit 5 12 Hours

Interpersonal Communications Course (Self-Paced)
  • Adjust your conversational style to meet the needs of others.
  • Understand why you respond in a particular way to conflict.
  • Listen more effectively.
  • Work through or prevent conflict by avoiding destructive statements or actions.
  • Recognize and use appropriate behavior to work harmoniously and productively.
  • Select the best option for negotiating.
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