CA1.5 Planning Your Day and Managing Deadlines

Take control of your workload with realistic plans and clearer priorities.

When requests compete for your attention, a workable plan helps you decide what to do next. This ebook and practical workbook teach you how to organise tasks, estimate your capacity, manage interruptions and keep commitments visible.

What you will learn:

- Turn requests into tasks with clear results and deadlines.

- Choose priorities based on urgency, impact and dependencies.

- Break larger tasks into manageable steps.

- Work backwards from a deadline.

- Build daily schedules with room for checks and interruptions.

- Spot delays early and communicate revised commitments.

- Review your week and improve plans.

Inside the ebook: Five modules and fifteen lessons, practical activities, a daily planner, backward planning and dependency tools, deadline risk and handover worksheets, a weekly review and habit tracker, and a final workplace simulation with review guidance.

Who it is for: Employees, administrators, job seekers and anyone balancing several tasks or deadlines.

Create a planning routine that helps you make steady progress and keep others informed.