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If you asked your employees what their priority was, would their answer be the same as yours? Write down each of your employee’s priority. Notice priority is singular—not plural. Then ask each of your employees to write down what they … Continued
Do you just like to plan a task or a project, but hate to implement it? Welcome to the club! It sounds as if you desperately need an Implementer. Why not hire, contract with, or find someone who is good … Continued
Which members of your sales team do you spend most of your time with? 80% of your sales team’s volume comes from 20% of your team. That means only 20% comes from the other 80% of your team. Yikes! Are … Continued
How many key activities do you have? If “key” is singular and “activities” is plural, then something doesn’t match. Many people think they have a bunch of key activities. What if they only have one? Remember the movie City Slickers … Continued
Why do you have time for reactive tasks yet never time for important ones? Most people spend their day reacting to e-mails, Tweets, calls, texts, deadlines, urgencies, and sometimes whims rather than proacting and setting their day up around their … Continued
When was the last time you spent a quiet evening at home? With information doubling, our personal RAM at a saturation point, being connected 24/7, and trying to fit more activities into our weekly schedule than a contestant on Supermarket … Continued
In today’s frantic work environment, does it seem fair that the fire fighter rather than the fire marshal gets rewarded? If you are constantly reacting to the same emergencies and putting out the same type of recurring fires, something is … Continued
Are you prioritizing your tasks? Or are you really just urgentizing and easinizing them? Try this: Pick out the first tasks that you would work on from a list of things to do. Most people don’t realize that they unconsciously … Continued
How often do your priorities change? Weekly? Daily? Hourly? Priorities rarely change. Urgencies, on the other hand, constantly change. Many people confuse urgencies with priorities. A priority is one thing that, when focused on and with a majority of time … Continued
Do you use important and urgent interchangeably? You are not alone. Most people today confuse urgent with important. Luckily, you can be one of the few to differentiate between them by following these rules: • Urgent is strictly time-based. • … Continued