How to Manage Your Priorities, Second Edition

In today’s competitive global environment—where people at all levels need to accomplish more, in less time, with fewer resources—the ability to manage priorities is a key element in personal and professional success. How to Manage Your Priorities, Second Edition, provides managers, team leaders, professionals, and others in the workplace with the tools to master this essential business skill.

This new edition, revised and updated with a new chapter on technology-based tools for managing priorities, teaches managers the critical benefits of managing their priorities and removing the obstacles that interfere with success.

Learn how to:

• Identify what’s important
• Accomplish more in less time, with fewer resources
• Manage your workload to improve your working relationships
• Organize a task or project so outcomes meet expectations and objectives
• Collaborate with others to make sure deadlines are necessary and reasonable
• Improve the quality of your work and reduce stress
• Master key strategies for prioritizing tasks and activities
• Practice the best planning and scheduling techniques

About the Author

Janis Fisher Chan, a writer, editor, trainer, and instructional designer, specializes in helping people communicate clearly and work productively. As a partner in the training and publishing company Write It Well, she has developed and conducted customized workshops on business writing, interpersonal communication, performance management, delegating, managing priorities, meeting planning, and making presentations. She has designed numerous self-study and classroom training programs; developed facilitator’s guides, participant workbooks, and other learning materials; and written and edited books, training materials, proposals, reports, marketing materials, manuals, and other documents. In addition to the first edition of How to Manage Your Priorities, her self-study courses for the American Management Association include Delegating for Business Success, Presentation Success, and Communication Skills for Managers, Fifth Edition. She is also the co-author of five business writing books, including E-Mail: A Write It Well Guide – How to Write and Manage E-Mail in the Workplace, available through writeitwell.com, and of The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator’s Guide to Meetings.