Respond to Salah’s post in one or more of the following ways:
Share a similar experience and compare your approach with that of your colleague.
Offer additional or alternative strategies that your colleague could consider when faced competing priorities.
Offer suggestions about how you might have done things in a similar situation
Salah’s Post:
Overcoming “Priority-Blindness” Finding Focus When Everything is Urgent
“The most urgent decisions are rarely the most important ones.”—Dwight Eisenhower
Introduction
Setting priorities allows us to identify the tasks that are important and urgent. The Eisenhower matrix allows us to do activities that are urgent and important first, delegate less important but urgent tasks and schedule important but less urgent tasks (Maxwell, 2014). To manage priorities better, it is crucial to schedule our activities by working backward from the deadline. Keeping a time log is important to manage short-term tasks (Drucker, 2017). Also, it is important to have a diary for planning purposes. I have also learned that prioritizing required more organization and delegation of activities that are less important and more urgent. As a manager, it is crucial to managing time efficiently to meet our goals. It is important to learn to reject activities that are not within your priority list. To deliver value to the organization, one must also partner with proven finishers to help us to focus on one activity at a time instead of multitasking.
Pizza Corporate
While I have had any difficulties that I notice in my whole 40 years in the business industry as we as a company having a higher standard and time management at all times which makes time demanding an easy level to handle without even mentioned or called it a moment of crisis. Adapting to current trends and consumer tastes is essential to keeping your independent pizza business relevant. People are looking for high-quality, made-to-order pizzas that suit their specific tastes. For this reason, many pizzerias are expanding their options for toppings, ingredients, and dipping sauces – especially amongst the millennial market. Increasing demand for fast, high-quality delivery is also taking shape. Third-party delivery partners have complicated delivery in the past, both for pizzerias and customers. However, a dedication to in-house delivery can boost customer satisfaction and loyalty. For my first small pizza place in Midtown Manhattan, New York, With all of the optimism for pizza-by-the-slice sales, the potential outweighs any drawbacks, most agree. In other words, the profit margins offset food waste concerns. So, the slice is the most economical way to eat pizza back in 1990. It allows the guests variety. By ordering more than one slice, you can have a completely different experience. For us, the cost challenges depend on foot traffic at any given meal period, whereas a whole pie to order, ultimately comes with a lower theoretical food cost and no food waste.
The four quadrants of the Eisenhower Matrix
Eisenhower’s best-known technique, the Eisenhower Matrix, is a simple, powerful tool that will help you to better prioritize your tasks—distinguish between what is important and urgent—and boost your productivity today. The four quadrants of the Eisenhower Matrix are as follows:
Urgent and important (tasks to do immediately).
Important, but not urgent (tasks to schedule later).
Urgent, but not important (tasks to delegate to someone else).
Neither urgent nor important (tasks to eliminate).
Here’s what the Eisenhower Matrix looks like.
Organizing my tasks and priorities early allowed me to focus on what is essential and urgent. As a result, my productivity greatly increased because I was able to manage my time efficiently. I developed my priorities by classifying my tasks into four quadrants using the Eisenhower matrix. By listing a list of my professional and personal tasks, I realized that tasks could be acted upon immediately, delegated, or scheduled depending on their importance. I did not rearrange my list of tasks (Morgenstern, 2016). As a result, it increases productivity at the workplace, reduces stress, and allows us to live healthier lives. However, if I could have learned how to prioritize the activities using time management tools, I could have written a list of my personal and professional tasks. Then I could have classified the tasks according to the level of importance and urgency. I should have given the more important and urgent activities the priority (Morgenstern, 2016). Also and the less important activities less attention to reducing the anxiety and the time I wasted thinking about multiple activities at the same time. This way, I could have managed my time much better and do many important activities. Also, I did not learn when to reject additional tasks. As a result, I could have been more productive and less stressed out.
Urgent Matrix
The matrix shows the activities that I did the tasks that were most urgent and most important. I scheduled activities that were important but not urgent. I delegate the events that were urgent but less important while activities that were not both important, and l urgent were not given any priority (Eisenhower, 2017). This exercise improves the ability to manage time more effectively and working towards highly prioritized activities. Also, the task allows one to focus on what is urgent hence delivering quality work within the schedule.
Conclusion
Many important tasks involve tolerating thinking about things that could go wrong, which is anxiety-provoking. General examples of important but potentially anxiety-provoking tasks include: developing new friendships, doing something challenging for the first time. Broadly speaking, working on important things typically requires having good skills for tolerating uncomfortable emotions. Having strategies for making quicker decisions can help. When you’ve got a pressing decision to make, it can be better to make a quick decision than a perfect one that takes more time. Also, prioritize tasks that will reduce your number of urgent but unimportant Tasks
References
Drucker, P. F. (2017). What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics). Watertown, MA:
Harvard Business Review Press
Eisenhower. (2017). Introducing the Eisenhower Matrix. Retrieved from http://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/
Henry, A. (2012). How to prioritize when everything is important. Retrieved from
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MindTools. (n.d.). Eisenhower’s urgent/important principle: Using time effectively, not just efficiently. MindTools.coms.
Retrieved from https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_91.htm
Maxwell, J. C. (2014, October 22). Why Priority Management Trumps Time Management by @Get_Lighthouse. Retrieved from
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/why-priority-management-trumps-time-management/
Morgenstern, J. (2016, March 23). What to Do When Your To-Do List Is Holding Up Your Team. Retrieved from
https://hbr.org/2016/03/what-to-do-when-your-to-do-list-is-holding-up-your-team
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