Stress-free Productivity

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OTF-HNS-T
  • 1 kredit
  • Biotechnology BSc
  • Optional modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 24

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: KTK TTK

Topic

In this course, students will learn how to improve their time management skills to achieve their goals without feeling burnt out or stressed. They will have the opportunity to learn the strategies and best practices of business leaders, authors and coaches such as Patrick Forsyth, Stephen R. Covey, James Clear, David Allen.

The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the basics of time management and its various types; provide them with easy-to-learn ideas and implementable techniques. The lectures help to develop good habits, through the acquisition of which the students can plan more effectively and manage their time more efficiently during their university years. It helps to increase their productivity stree-free.

Lectures

  • 1.

    Introduction to time management

    - Bognár Rita
  • 2.

    Mission statement, goal setting

    - Bognár Rita
  • 3.

    Time planning, prioritization

    - Bognár Rita
  • 4.

    Efficiency-enhancing methods

    - Bognár Rita
  • 5.

    Time robbers, time traps

    - Bognár Rita
  • 6.

    The psychology of procrastination

    - Bognár Rita
  • 7.

    Developing good habits

    - Bognár Rita
  • 8.

    Eliminating bad habits

    - Bognár Rita
  • 9.

    Time management supporting applications

    - Bognár Rita
  • 10.

    Owl or sparrow

    - Bognár Rita
  • 11.

    Treatment of overload

    - Bognár Rita
  • 12.

    Motivation, maximalism

    - Bognár Rita

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Not relevant.

Literature developed by the Department

Lectures pdf files with video links will be available in Teams/Files/Class Materials.

Notes

Not relevant.

Recommended literature

David Allen, Mike Williams, Mark Wallace: Getting Things Done for Teans: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World, 2019;

James Clear: Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones, Penguin Publishing Group, 2018;

Patrick Forsyth: Successfull Time Management, Kogan Page, 2007;

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill: First Things First, A Fireside Book, Pubshied by Simon&Schuster, 1994;

Stephen R. Covey: The 7 habits of highly effective people personal workbook, 2003

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Online homework task and homework essay task should be uploaded in Moodle (moodle.pte.hu) at the end of the semester.

Mid-term exams

Not relevant.

Making up for missed classes

No way.

Exam topics/questions

Available in Teams.

Examiners

  • Bognár Rita

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars