StretchLearn Course
A practical, tool-specific system for time blocking, protected focus, and calm coordination.
Course Overview
This beginner course rebuilds your calendar from a reactive inbox of invitations into a deliberate weekly system. You will set up focus blocks, themed days, buffers, and meeting-hygiene rules using real features in Google Calendar and Outlook. By the end you run a repeatable weekly plan and coordinate asynchronously across teams and time zones.
Learning Outcomes
Configure Google Calendar or Outlook with working hours, multiple calendars, and color rules
Design a weekly template using time blocking, task batching, and day theming
Protect deep work with focus blocks, buffers, and a maker-vs-manager schedule
Run cleaner meetings using agendas, default 25/50-minute lengths, and decline scripts
Coordinate asynchronously with scheduling links, time-zone tools, and shared availability
Operate a weekly planning and review ritual that keeps the system accurate over time
Curriculum Preview
Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.
Configure Google Calendar or Outlook so it can hold a real plan: working hours, layered calendars, color coding, and a default-events baseline.
Build a repeatable weekly skeleton using day theming, task batching, and energy-aware scheduling.
Defend deep work with focus blocks and buffers, and cut meeting load with hygiene rules and decline scripts.
Coordinate across people and time zones with scheduling links and shared availability, then sustain the system with a weekly ritual.
Built for Application
This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.