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PLANNING AND
PRIORITIZING
Have you
ever
• I am juggling too many balls
felt?
• I wish I had more time to finish
my tasks

• I don't know where to go from here

• Poor management is affecting

my life.
Learning
Objectives
To acquire some effective planning
1
skills

2 To recognize the difference between

important and urgent

3 To learn effective prioritizing skills

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PLANNING
Planning is deciding in advance what
to do, how to do, when to do and who
is to do it.

Planning bridges a gap

between from where we are
and where we want to go.
WHY DO WE
NEED TO
PLAN ?
Proper Prior Planning Promotes Peak Performance

Get a clear
focus and
direction.

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Proper Prior Planning Promotes Peak Performance

Improves
efficiency
and ensures
success.
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Proper Prior Planning Promotes Peak Performance

Estimate
accurately
time and effort
require.
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Proper Prior Planning Promotes Peak Performance

Helps to
delegate
delete and
schedule.
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Proper Prior Planning Promotes Peak Performance

Avoid
decision
dilemmas.
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SHARPEN Take time to make time.
YOUR AXE!
Work to a purpose.

Identify and organize

systems and resources.

Support others involved.

Organize personal time.

Avoid and manage stress.

 WHAT IS
PRIORITIZATION?
PRIORITIZATION ECSI

Prioritization, as a process,
is evaluating a group of
items and ranking them in
order of importance and
urgency.
 THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN
MAKING PRIORITIES

1. First thing first.

2. Make a To-Do master list.

3. Manage your tasks in order.

 THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN
MAKING PRIORITIES

• ELIMINATE

• AVOID

• REDUCE
• FOCUS