Urgency - Importance Matrix Example: Prioritize tasks after returning from vacation (at work and at home)
Prioritize tasks after returning from vacation
- Read all e-mails
- Read e-mails that are marked as “High Importance.”
- Read e-mails that were addressed personally to me
- Read meeting minutes of the meetings in which I was not able to participate
- Read e-mails from my manager
- Read e-mails from my peers
- Read e-mails from my subordinates
- Participate in regular recurring meetings
- Participate in newly initiated meetings
- Participate in meetings that I was invited to
- Schedule a conversation with my manager to get an update on strategic changes and excursions
- Schedule a conversation with my peers to get an update on excursions
- Schedule a conversation with my subordinates to get an update on the progress of my projects
The list of home tasks is shown in the Creative tool
Before vacation - make clear back up list and tasks to complete by your backup. After vacation - make passdown meeting with your back ups.
Similar projects
To reduce high turnover at the plant the managers propose different ideas, but it does not help. All proposed solutions are good, but there are some of them that are blocking the effectiveness of the rest of the solutions. The purpose of the project is to analyze the proposed solutions (perceptions) and define the blocked. The solutions with high blocking rank should be completed first to ensure the effectiveness of the rest of the ideas. The Perception Mapping (PMap) creative thinking tool was used for the blockers definition.
