This document discusses setting priorities and time management. It begins by outlining the session objectives of understanding the need to set priorities, focusing on importance over urgency, and balancing roles and activities. It then discusses defining priorities in terms of important tasks, tracking progress, and making time for important matters. The document contrasts urgency and importance, noting that high importance, low urgency tasks like planning and relationship building should take priority over low importance urgent tasks. It emphasizes the need to regularly review roles, goals, and tasks to determine priorities and focus on the most important items. Key points are that importance matters more than urgency and time management involves making time for important activities through planning, execution, and reflection.
2. Session Objectives
Better understand the need to set priorities
Focus on importance, not urgency in time
management
Recognise that effectiveness requires
balancing relationships, roles, activities and
quality of output
Understand the value of periodic assessment
of tasks
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3. Session Outline
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Session purpose
The meaning of time management
Importance versus Urgency
Challenges in setting priorities
ASME perspective
Key points
Priorities scenario
4. The Purpose of Setting Priorities
Priorities are about:
Making time to attend to important
matters
Getting tasks done
Keeping track of tasks to monitor
progress
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5. Time Management
Try versus Make time.
Dont have the time versus Making
a priority
80% of results come from 20% of
your activities
About 50% of your time is out of your
control
Multi-tasking is not an effective use of
time
8. Importance versus Urgency
Habit 3 in Stephen Coveys list for highly
effective people first things first is about
setting priorities.
The underlying principle is the need for
balance in relationships, roles and
activities.
Things which matter most should not be at the
mercy of those which matter least.
Focus on the truly important and say no to the
unimportant.
9. Importance versus Urgency
To determine priorities one needs to
review:
Roles
Goals
Tasks
Consider weekly reviews since daily
gives a limited view and too many
things change in a month.
10. Importance versus Urgency
Roles
Organize all that you do by roles
Enables a view of balance and comfort level
Roles represent responsibilities and
relationships
Examples
Family spouse, parent
Work projects, administration, training
Volunteer ASME, Church, Scouts
11. Importance versus Urgency
Goals
Consider big picture view things
that need attention
Set one or two each week that are
likely to have the most impact
12. Importance versus Urgency
Tasks
To Do Lists
Organize by roles
Evaluate with integrity
Consider Toggle method
Focus on one or two until
completed
14. Challenges in Setting Priorities
Understanding goals and expectations
Triage list of all tasks and determine must
do items
Break up big tasks
Scope
Timeline
Relationships consider involving others in
completion of efforts.
15. ASME Perspective
Tasks
Programmes, events leading, delegating,
communicating, etc.
Running meetings make meetings effective
Administrative duties budgets, forms, updating
rosters, etc.
16. ASME Perspective
Example Tasks
Accessing unit financial information online
Submitting updated rosters for unit committees
Scheduling meetings, creating agendas,
conducting meeting
Planning programs (sections) / developing
Products and Services (division and sections)
Delegating / recruiting volunteers to carry out
programs
Creating a strategic plan for the unit
Identifying /nominating candidates for Honors &
Awards, filling out necessary paperwork
18. Summary of Key Points
Importance matters more than urgency and
should be the basis for actions
Time management is about making time for
important activities
Planning, execution and reflection are important
to achievement
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Speaking Note Tips:
Introduce yourself and establish your credentials - your ASME experience, especially as it relates to the session content.
As an intro to the session, answer the question whats in it for me? for the attendees (i.e. how is the session content important to the participants, for their jobs and for ASME?)
Speaking Note Tips:
Are the objective overtly stated? Are they stated in terms of skills the participants will gain & behaviors for them to practice?
Ask how many participants think they can already achieve some of these - and adjust your approach accordingly
To clarify expectations, its important for participants to understand the levels of mastery desired mention any reference materials, pre- or post-reading materials, people and resources available to help them practice & become proficient at the skills & behaviors stated in the objectives.
Speaking Note Tips:
Relate the information in the session to what participants already know.
Refer to any previously introduced or related content (e.g. plenary or other LTC sessions, pre-reading material).
Ask if participants already know prerequisite concepts, and acronyms and vocabulary you plan to use, and explain if needed.
Explain any unique features of the session.
Speaking Note Tips:
Consider including a brief exercise or pop quiz/questions at the end of each section of content presented.
Match the exercise / quiz to the session objective and the skill to be developed.
Speaking Notes Tips:
Give an example that extends the application of the information into practice.
Ask for questions; encourage dialog and allow answers to come from the participants.