How well do your staff understand the priorities of the work you give them?
The need to prioritize is often associated with junior managers. Especially those who are first learning to delegate. It is just as relevant and perhaps more so for senior managers and especially business owners.
How well do you discriminate between:
The activities that your company needs to do, and the activities that are vital and create competitive advantage?
Things that must be done, the things that should be done and the nice to be done?
Your own ideas for how to solve a problem and a directive to solve a problem using your method?
Questions that are designed to provoke thinking and those that really need to be answered?
I'm sure in your mind these things are clear. Are they really? How clear are they in the minds of the people around you?
With clear priorities, the organisation is aligned and the everybody's energy is focused on the right areas.
Sign up to get our posts via email. No more than one message per day.