9 ways to prioritise your workload

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1. Record All Activities: Write down all your multiple demands, competing priorities, tasks, and activities for the day or week
2. Determine Primary Goals: List your primary goals for the day or the week
3. Consider 80/20 Rule: Determine which 20% of activities will yield 80% the results, Bringing you nearer to your goals
4. Evaluate Important vs. Urgent: Decide which of these activities are the most important versus the most urgent. At this stage, take into account how certain items affect others and the consequences for not accomplishing certain tasks (for example, someone might need something from you in order to do their job)
5. Rank: Use a ranking system to begin planning. For example:

• “A” tasks have high priority and must be completed immediately
• “ B” tasks are moderately important but can be done after the “A” tasks
• “C” tasks are of low-level importance and can be tackled in our spare time

1. Create a Schedule: Indicate deadlines for each task and estimate the time involved to complete the task. Create a schedule, keeping in mind any tasks that may be linked together to increase productivity. For example, can you couple something of lesser priority with something of greater importance?

1. Revisit Goals and Adjust: Review your goal(s) and the rewards of doing the task on time, and make any necessary adjustments.
2. Purge: Get rid of items on your list that remain at the bottom and will realistically not get done.
3. Bunch same or similar tasks together for maximum efficiency – and do the ones you least want to do, first – it gets the horrible things off your list and makes your day better