Yes, there is. You need to contact the governor, and then go to the tab where you can tell the governor to produce certain categories "Never/Sometimes/Often" in "This City/Continental Cities/All Cities"
It is normally used if you have the governor set to manage production. Which you shouldn't do.
But even without the governor on it will have some effect on what the governor offers as the item to be produced next. And setting some categories (offensice land units, great wonders etc.) to "Never" and "All Cities" while setting others (Workers, Settlers, etc) to "Often" and "All Cities" should help to make the governor guess right more often. Play around with the settings.
Of course there are also settings in the Preferences as to whether or not you are notified each time when something completes, or where you can tell the game to keep on building the units you built last.