Learn more: -----> www.timesmartme.com/howtoprioritise A step-by-step guide on making prioritisation work. For anyone who gets a flood of new tasks every day and needs to make sense of constantly changing priorities

1. How to prioritise
and make it work

2. Imagine work

3. Clear
priorities

4. Simple
decisions

5. -
Supported
by others

6. Conduct
your tasks

7. Orchestrate your
environment

8. -
Gain
clarity

9. Can
you
do it
better?

10. Start with
understanding
what’s important

11. - Too many things get confused
with important:
Urgent is NOT important
Complex is NOT important
Buzz is NOT important
Interesting is NOT important
Unclear is NOT important
Gold-plating is NOT important

12. -
Your top 3 responsibilities
ARE important

13. -
Your top 2 tasks
for the next few
weeks ARE
important

14. -
Your customer’s
problem IS important

15. Your vision
of the company
IS important

16. My top 7 priorities right now
My role’s top 3 responsibilities:
1.
2.
3.
My top 2 tasks/projects for the next few
weeks:
4.
5.
My customers’ / stakeholders’ biggest
problem right now that I will fix:
6.
My biggest value-add to my department
(that not many others can do)?
7.

17. These are your magnificent seven
-
and they are important

18. .... everything else is noise

19. Spend 60% of
your time on
Important

20. Now,
get your
environment
to support
you

21. “Seek FIRST to understand,
then to be understood”
Stephen Covey

22. Understand:
Company goals / visions
Department objectives
Your role description

23. When did you
last check?

24. Understand:
Your manager
Internal/external customers
Your key stakeholders
Your colleagues

25. When did you last
ask them?

26. -
Clarify priorities early
-
NOT in the face of a new task

27. -
Say “Yes”
-
Be positive
-
Be clear

28. Understand what you stand for

29. Let everybody know
what you stand for
Your priorities
Your passion
Your strengths
Your vision

30. Make clear what you stand for

31. -
“If you build it, they will come”
-
Field of Dreams

32. They will come for
what you stand for

33. -
... not for what you don’t stand for

34. -
Don’t say “No”

35. -
Say “Yes”

36. Don’t push the unimportant tasks away
pull the important tasks

37. Imagine work

38. -
Clear priorities

39. -
Simple
decisions

40. -
Supported
by others

41. Conduct
your tasks

42. -
Orchestrate
-
your environment

43. Gain clarity

44. Elevate!

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