How to prioritise and make it work

Imagine work

Clear

priorities

Simple

decisions

- Supported by others

Conduct your tasks

Orchestrate your

environment

-Gain clarity

Can you do it better?

Start with

understanding

what’s important

- 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

-Your top 3 responsibilities

ARE important

-Your top 2 tasks

for the next few

weeks ARE

important

-Your customer’s

problem IS important

Your vision

of the company

IS important

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.

These are your magnificent seven- and they are important

.... everything else is noise

Spend 60% of

your time on

Important

Now,

get your

environment

to support

you

“Seek FIRST to understand,

then to be understood”

Stephen Covey

Understand:

Company goals / visions

Department objectives

Your role description

When did you

last check?

Understand:

Your manager

Internal/external customers

Your key stakeholders

Your colleagues

When did you last

ask them?

-Clarify priorities early

-NOT in the face of a new task

-Say “Yes”

-Be positive

-Be clear

Understand what you stand for

Let everybody know

what you stand for

Your priorities

Your passion

Your strengths

Your vision

Make clear what you stand for

- “If you build it, they will come”

- Field of Dreams

They will come for

what you stand for

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

-Don’t say “No”

-Say “Yes”

Don’t push the unimportant tasks away

pull the important tasks

Imagine work

-Clear priorities

-Simple decisions

-Supported by others

Conduct your tasks

-Orchestrate

-your environment

Gain clarity

Elevate!

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