Focusing on your priorities
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Focusing on your priorities

Essential tools and strategies to help you prioritize and plan your activities, illustrated with concrete examples.

Cegos Training
Updated Nov 13, 2024

What you'll learn

  • How to take a step back from urgent tasks and refocus on your priorities
  • How to plan your long-term, weekly and daily priorities effectively
Course Description

During the course of a working day you can often have the impression that everything you have to do is both important and urgent. But are all those tasks really a priority? It’s important that you know how to choose from the various activities you have to complete the ones that have to be done straightaway those that you can put off until later and the ones you can delegate or even drop altogether. This means you have to be able to set priorities.

In this module you will find a number of tools and strategies that can help you plan your activities by focusing on your priorities.

This course will cover:

  • Differentiating between two key dimensions of priority-setting: urgency and importance.
  • Using the CAUT (Critical Analysis of your Use of Time) matrix to clarify your priorities.
  • Planning your activities in accordance with your priorities.

Target Audience

Anyone who wants to regain control of their time when facing constant urgent tasks.

Accreditation

PMI accreditation: earn 0.5 PDU points from PMI.