The day fills up with emails, meetings and requests that seem urgent, while important work postponed for weeks is still waiting on page one. Through Mert’s busy week, this course addresses the “mere urgency effect” and the cost of divided attention, then brings the Eisenhower matrix, which relies on just two questions, into daily work step by step. The main idea is simple: being busy and being effective are not the same thing.
Course objective: Help participants sort their tasks by importance and urgency, choose the right behavior in each quadrant and regularly plan work that is important but not urgent.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
– Place tasks in the four quadrants of the matrix using the questions “Is it important?” and “Is it urgent?”,
– Handle important and urgent tasks with focus and reduce the root causes of recurring crises through preventive work,
– Set aside protected time blocks in your calendar for important work and make weekly planning a habit,
– Apply ways to delegate, limit or politely decline requests that seem urgent but are not yours,
– Recognize and reduce habits that consume time without you noticing,
– Prepare a personal action plan that fits your own way of working.
The course begins with an introductory animation depicting an ordinary work week. It continues with an exercise in placing tasks into quadrants, workplace scenarios, step-by-step weekly planning, examples of limiting the third and fourth quadrants and a personal planning activity, and concludes with knowledge check questions.