Coordinating office workflows and deadlines
Keep shared work moving: track tasks with one owner and a date, see dependencies, plan backwards from deadlines, clarify roles with a RACI chart, run recurring tasks from a calendar and raise risks early with useful status updates.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 45 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Maintain a task tracker in which every task has one owner, a due date and its dependencies
- Plan backwards from a deadline using working days and lead times
- Use a RACI chart to clarify who does, approves, is consulted and is informed
- Write a status update that flags risks early and asks for a specific decision
- Set up recurring office tasks so they happen without relying on memory
Course outline
- 1.Coordinating office workflows and deadlinesVideo · 2 min
- 2.Trackers, owners and dependenciesLesson · 15 min
- 3.Planning backwards and recurring workLesson · 15 min
- 4.Roles, status updates and raising risksLesson · 15 min
- 5.Coordinating office workflows and deadlines: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
- 6.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- General office administration practice (scheduling, records, written communication, workflow coordination)
- Digital.gov (U.S. GSA): Plain language guide series
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