Improving Your Focus
50mGeneral2025-07-01
Authors
Dave Crenshaw
Author and Leadership Coach specializing in productive leadership
Course details
In our hectic world, time management alone doesn't cut it. To truly increase your efficiency, it's crucial that you improve your focus as well as tend to your calendar. In this course, productivity expert and best-selling author Dave Crenshaw helps you develop the survival skills to both avoid daily distractions and stay focused on what's most valuable. Curate your digital and physical space to strengthen concentration, discover ways to keep your mind on task, and protect your relationships—both at work and at home—by focusing on what's most important.
Learning objectives
Discover multiple strategies to improve your focus.
Protect your ability to focus by learning to use technology intelligently.
Analyze how to process new tasks economically.
Avoid distractions in a digital world.
Learn how to make time for others.
Identify how to build a mental firewall to sustain focus.
Define clear boundaries and expectations.
Assess how and when you prioritize tasks.
Learning objectives
Discover multiple strategies to improve your focus.
Protect your ability to focus by learning to use technology intelligently.
Analyze how to process new tasks economically.
Avoid distractions in a digital world.
Learn how to make time for others.
Identify how to build a mental firewall to sustain focus.
Define clear boundaries and expectations.
Assess how and when you prioritize tasks.
Skills covered
Time ManagementPersonal DevelopmentLimited SeriesProfessional Development
Concepts
Introduction
- Learning to improve your focus
What Is Focus Management
- Tackling the challenge of focus
- Understanding the two facets of focus
Your Digital Space
- Turning notifications off and using your calendar
- Timing your activity
- Creating a digital-free zone
Your Physical Space
- Using the inbox and portable inbox
- Processing and finding homes
- Establishing artifacts
- Assembling your tools
Your Mind
- Redirecting ideas and opportunities
- Building a mental firewall
- Choosing your areas of focus
- Creating a vision
Your Time
- Building a buffer in your day
- Creating your finish line
- Increasing your value per hour
- Establishing a refocus time
Your Relationships
- Establishing expectations and boundaries
- Setting up a closed door, open calendar policy
- Focusing on people
- Making time for others
Conclusion
- Taking your next steps