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The Eisenhower Matrix is a productivity,
prioritization, and time-management
framework designed to help you prioritize a
list of tasks or agenda items by first
categorizing those items according to their
urgency and importance.
Also called an Eisenhower Decision Matrix,
Eisenhower Box, or Urgent-Important
Matrix, this approach consists of drawing a
four-box square with an x-axis labeled Urgent
and Not Urgent, and the y-axis labeled
Important and Not Important. Then, group
the items on your list into one of the four
boxes, with the Urgent-and-Important box in
the upper left requiring your immediate
Activity 2: The Eisenhower
Matrix
Annual revenue growth
You will be given worksheet that will help you
organizing your all your works. The Eisenhower
worksheet is an effective tool for setting
priorities one of the pre-requisites of time
management.
WORKSHEET: The Eisenhower Matrix
Name:______________________________________________ Grade and
Section:______________________
A. Instructions: Identify and list down all the tasks and activities that you need to finish within this week.
B. Instructions: from your listed above tasks above, identify whether it’s
important and urgent, important but not urgent, not important but urgent, or not
important and not urgent. Write them in the quadrant accordingly.
What is the ‘Eisenhower Matrix’?
“Eisenhower matrix” or the “Eisenhower box”, a tool for decision
making based on task separation. It is about establishing four
possibilities:
• The urgent and important: tasks to be done immediately.
• The important but not urgent: tasks for which time needs to be
found and which need be done.
• The urgent but not important: tasks to delegate.
• Neither urgent nor important: tasks to eliminate
URGENT NOT URGENT
IMPORTANT Do It Now Schedule
NOT IMPORTANT Delegate Eliminate
What is the difference between Urgent and Important?
Don’t be fooled. Replying to an email may seem urgent, but it is not. A phone
call can wait. As Eisenhower himself said, “the important is seldom urgent and the
urgent is seldom important”.
Important tasks are those that contribute to achieving our long-term goals. They are
those that we should not lose sight of if we are to achieve success in our project. If we
have tasks that do not contribute to achieving our goals, then they are often neither
important nor urgent. The quickest way to handle these tasks is deciding to eliminate
them. In fact, the Eisenhower method is useful because it pushes us to question whether
a task is really necessary, and sometimes it is necessary to eliminate from our planning
that which takes us away from what’s important.
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Areas of focus
B2B market scenarios
• Develop winning strategies to keep ahead of the
competition
• Capitalize on low-hanging fruit to identify a ballpark
value
• Visualize customer directed convergence
Cloud-based opportunities
• Iterative approaches to corporate strategy
• Establish a management framework from the inside
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Summary
At Contoso, we believe in giving 110%. By using our next-generation
data architecture, we help organizations virtually manage agile
workflows. We thrive because of our market knowledge and great team
behind our product. As our CEO says, "Efficiencies will come from
proactively transforming how we do business."
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Mirjam Nilsson
Thank you mirjam@contoso.com
www.contoso.com
