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Workplace Productivity

Improve your efficiency and get more done in less time.

Workplace productivity can be significantly improved by setting goals, managing personal productivity, taking responsibility, and taking initiative.

By incorporating these strategies into your work routine, you can increase your productivity, enhance your performance, and contribute to a more successful and fulfilling workplace.

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Micro-credentials are short, concentrated groups of courses that are really flexible. You can take as many as you like, in any order, and because they are asynchronous you can take them at any time it suits you. You will be awarded a badge for each individual course, once you have completed all four courses you will gain your micro-credential.

The cost for each individual course listed below is $60. For more Information email: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course Listing

Course ID: 

Name: Goal Setting and Getting Things Done

Course Outcomes:

  • Overcome procrastination.
  • Manage time effectively.
  • Accomplish important tasks.
  • Self-motivate.
  • Create SMART goals.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Personal Productivity

Course Outcomes:

  • Set and evaluate SMART goals.
  • Use routines to maximize your productivity.
  • Use scheduling tools to make the most of your time.
  • Stay on top of your to-do list.
  • Start new tasks and projects on the right foot.
  • Use basic project management techniques.
  • Organize your physical and virtual workspaces for maximum efficiency.
  • Take back time from e-mail and handheld devices.
  • Beat procrastination.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Responsibility in the Workplace

Course Outcomes:

  • Define accountability and examine the accountability ladder.
  • Identify qualities of accountable employees.
  • Successfully identify one’s own accountability level.
  • Identify examples of responsibility in the workplace.
  • Successfully identify the benefits of responsible employees and the effects of employees that are not responsible.
  • Identify various accountability tools for businesses in the form of software.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID:

Name: Taking Initiative

Course Outcomes:

  • Identify what initiative looks like.
  • Recognize when you can take steps outside the normal.
  • Build confidence in yourself.
  • Find opportunities.
  • Describe good and bad aspects of initiative.
  • Balance initiative and restraint.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.
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