Leadership Insights on Setting and Managing Priorities
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Collecting a mass of priorities is easy, but what do you do with all of them? By being precise and pairing specific conditions with specific actions, you can achieve your goals. Make priorities a way of life to simplify your work-and life.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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Acquire insights on setting your goals for the short, medium, and long terms in four major categories.
Acquire insights on how to set and achieve goals by using if-then plans, where you pair specific conditions with specific actions.
Acquire insights on the impact of positive versus negative motivators for achieving long-term results.
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Acquire insights on how to become an essentialist and simplify your life by setting and living by priorities.
Acquire insights on a leader’s role in managing complexity to identify the business’s priorities.
Acquire insights on the three steps leaders must take to frame work to let employees know what’s expected from them.
Acquire insights on how complete and clear project lists can make it easy for people to set and manage priorities.
IN THIS COURSE
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1. Setting Goals in Four Dimensions4m 36sWrite down your priorities for the short, medium, and long terms in four major categories: your career, your relationships and family, your role in the community, and as caretaker of your mind, body, and spirit. Review and rebalance the priorities periodically. FREE ACCESS
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2. Achieve Goals with If-Then Plans4m 25sGoals like lose weight and exercise more are too vague. Increase your chances of achieving goals by pairing specific conditions with specific actions. If it’s 3:00 I will walk up and down three flights of stairs — exactly what to do, and when and where to do it. FREE ACCESS
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3. Positive Versus Negative Motivators2m 53sNegative motivators, such as reducing budgets and insisting on quick results, can be effective in the short run but have negative long-term consequences. Motivators such as encouraging employees to be passionate about goals have a better longer-term result. FREE ACCESS
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4. Do the Hard Things First1m 47sAn investor in Silicon Valley said the most important advice he ever received was, at the end of each day, to prioritize the top six activities for the next day. Then spend up to two hours on the highest priority activity when he first arrived in the morning. FREE ACCESS
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5. How to Become an Essentialist2m 2sEssentialists live by priorities. Priority setting is not something on a to-do list; it’s the work of life. It’s not just that setting priorities matters; it’s “This is who I am.” Only failure and leadership can simplify your life. Choose to simplify by setting and living by priorities. FREE ACCESS
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6. The Leader's Role in Managing Complexity2m 8sA leader's role in managing complexity is to identify the business's priorities and find the people to work on them. FREE ACCESS
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7. Three Steps Leaders Must Take to Frame Work1m 51sFraming work lets employees know what to expect from themselves and others on any given project. FREE ACCESS
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8. Managing Priorities1m 10sComplete, clear project lists get work out of people's heads, making it easier to set and manage priorities. FREE ACCESS
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