2006-10-19 09:51:31 · 6 answers · asked by kook417 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Stay late and do them both. What is the end of the day? By tomorrow?
2006-10-19 09:57:48 · answer #1 · answered by EAA Duro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The U.S. Postal Service has Priority Mail. This mail is more important than other mail and is to be handled carefully and delivered first. To prioritize work is to decide that some work is more important than the other work, some tasks are more important that other tasks, and that some situations require greater attention and urgency than other situations. While this is obvious to most people, we find that many managers or execs do not prioritize or make comparative judgments; they think everything is equally important. Other execs do not prioritize because they do not like to make relative judgments, because they feel that such judgments are not fair.
See and watch out for the political dynamics of choices, of how and when decisions are made, about which exec is told first that you have a competing project that has priority, what things are said and not said, and who is included in the decision process.
Prioritization, because it lives in the Relative world, focuses on not doing things perfectly but doing things better. If you are able to focus your attention on the best things to do, the task that will have less repercussion on others and their work, even though the system is not perfect. Make sure you are moving the ball forward in a positive way and seeing that the most important task gets done first. Whether you are the one who establishes the priorities, remember that as a manager or supervisor,
you: do need to be the one who responds to and respects the different priorities of each exec and which will be most willing to compromise or defer to the immediate needs of the other.
At the worst, delegate portion(s) of one task to a co-worker if you feel you can accomplish both by day's end.
2006-10-19 10:23:02 · answer #2 · answered by JFAD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find out which task needs immediate attention and go from there. Tell the other exec that you will handle his task next if there is time.
2006-10-19 09:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by judirose2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Delegate both tasks, and spend your time polishing the results of both.
2006-10-19 09:58:40 · answer #4 · answered by Spicoli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell them both at the same time that you only have time for one and ask them to get their priorities set and tell you which one to do first.
2006-10-19 09:53:29 · answer #5 · answered by dcgirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get off the internet and get to work
2006-10-19 09:58:34 · answer #6 · answered by miss m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋