The Power of Task Management
Taught by Amanda Crowell
Amanda Crowell is a writer, professor and improvement coach, working alongside hundreds of people as they work to improve some part of their work or life. At the Brainery, Amanda brings lessons and tools from improvement science, psychology, user centered design, and action research to power your personal improvement. As a professor at the School of Education at Hunter College, Amanda works with teacher candidates as they navigate their first experience in an urban public school. As a consultant at Eskolta School Research and Design, Amanda provided professional learning opportunities across the city focused on utilizing improvement science to get better at getting better. Amanda has a PhD from Columbia in cognitive psychology and her writing has been featured in Quartz, JSTOR daily, and others places around the web. For more information, check out her website: amandacrowell.com
We are all so busy that having a task management system can sometimes feel overwhelming and cumbersome. In this class we'll learn how a good task management system can actually
- Reduce your overwhelm
- Decrease your overall stress
- Keep your time aligned to your values
- Help you say no.
Not to mention the benefits we all know. Task management helps you:
- Meet your deadlines
- Accomplish your goals
- Be more productive.
We'll cover the psychological benefits of task management, the basics of a simplified version of the Getting Things Done (GTD) task management system and I'll show you a few tools to get your started! You will leave with concrete steps to take back control of your time!