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The document discusses the importance of setting and meeting work priorities in a professional environment, emphasizing that there is often more work than time available. It introduces the ABC prioritizing method, where tasks are categorized as high, medium, or low priority, and highlights the need to understand how tasks align with company goals. Additionally, it suggests adding due dates to tasks to manage urgency and visibility effectively.

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Lesson 2

The document discusses the importance of setting and meeting work priorities in a professional environment, emphasizing that there is often more work than time available. It introduces the ABC prioritizing method, where tasks are categorized as high, medium, or low priority, and highlights the need to understand how tasks align with company goals. Additionally, it suggests adding due dates to tasks to manage urgency and visibility effectively.

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Lesson 02: Set and Meet Work

Priorities
In any responsible position in any company that you ever have, it is a given
that there will be more work to do than there are hours in the day. You could
kill yourself, trying to do everything that needs to be done, and still not
manage to complete it all. As an employee, your most important task is
to determine priorities, so that the things that need to be worked on are
those that receive your time and attention and that of your department.
Priorities have to be established based upon what is best going to
meet your company’s needs. But, that’s not always easy to determine. What
often looks like the best possible solution may not actually be so.
Properly determining priorities requires understanding the various
tasks that need to be done, how they relate to your company’s goals and
how they compare to other tasks that also appear important.
ABC Prioritizing
The most common form of prioritizing tasks is by a simple ABC method. In
this method, you make a list of all the tasks that you have to complete, and
assign them a letter code:
 A = High priority, very important to get this done
 B = Medium priority, this should get done
 C = Low priority, it would be nice if this could get done
It is assumed with this method that you know how important the various
tasks are in regard to your company’s and department’s goals. Otherwise,
the priorities you place on the individual tasks really have no value.
The next step in the process is to add a due date for each of these tasks.
Most important tasks need to be completed by a particular time. If they
aren’t completed by that time, they move from just being important to being
important and urgent. Some items may not have a due date, especially
things that are priority C. However, a priority C item, that never gets dealt
with may become more important over time. For this reason, some people
put a start date on the items as well. That way, even items that may be a
Priority C will have some visibility.

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