We all know the importance of priorities in our lives and business, but sometimes it feels like EVERYTHING is a priority. In this episode we look at how to strip it back and identify the critical ones.
We all know the importance of priorities in our lives and business, but sometimes it feels like EVERYTHING is a priority. In this episode we look at how to strip it back and identify the critical ones.
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Today's Tips!
♦ Make a comprehensive to-do list.
♦ Break your tasks into manageable steps.
♦ Schedule time to complete your tasks and stick to it!
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Today's Tips!
♦ Make a comprehensive to-do list.
♦ Break your tasks into manageable steps.
♦ Schedule time to complete your tasks and stick to it!
We’d love to hear your feedback on how this has helped you!
Send us a message and let us know how you got along:
Today's Tips!
♦ Make a comprehensive to-do list.
♦ Break your tasks into manageable steps.
♦ Schedule time to complete your tasks and stick to it!
We’d love to hear your feedback on how this has helped you!
Send us a message and let us know how you got along:
Managing your critical priorities:
We all know the importance of priorities in our lives and business, but sometimes it feels like EVERYTHING is a priority. How do you strip it back and identify the critical ones?
Louise Poole and Andy Le Roy, giving you the insights that empower you to become the expert in your field
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Andy: It’s really easy to write a list of everything that needs to be done and call them priorities. But it’s not very effective.
Louise: If everything is a priority, then NOTHING is a priority. We’re going to share our tips and tricks to prioritising the priorities!
Andy: It was Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that said: When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no priorities. And I know you love that book Louise.
Louise: I do! It’s one of my favourite inspirational books for getting yourself organised – in both business and life. And it’s such a good point. Especially that we now live our lives in a more interconnected way than ever before.
Andy: And when everything is available to us all the time, and our to do list is never ending – it gets hard to determine exactly how to decide which is our most priority priority.
Louise: Maybe we should call them our critical priorities!
Andy: Done! Let’s define a critical priority as something that must be accomplished within a specified amount of time, no matter what.
Louise: For example, if your business sells products online – a critical priority is making sure that items purchases by your customers are posted in an appropriate time frame.
Andy: Or for our business, Welcome Change Media, once we’ve decided when we intend to launch a podcast, critical priorities involve researching, scripting, and production to make that launch date.
Louise: So with Welcome Change Media we have this very long list of things we want to achieve and programs we want to make, but if ALL of them are priorities then we overwhelm ourselves and we move forward very slowly, or not at all, on all of them.
Andy: Which is where critical priorities come in. And taking an honest look at your business values and goals and what is important for you to achieve.
Louise: So first write that list of what you want to see your business achieve. Make it as big or outrageous as you want! Because we are going to break it down into smaller achievable steps.
Andy: And then add a time frame of when you want to achieve those things next to them. For adding a new product to the inventory it might be a month. For franchising your business it might be 3 years.
Louise: Then put your realism hat on. How many steps are there required to bring those goals to life? And how long will each of those steps take you or your business to accomplish realistically?
Andy: For this very podcast your listening to we said we want to launch on x date, which is 6 weeks away. And the major steps we need to have a podcast to launch are: Write some episodes, record those episodes, produce those episodes, and then release those episodes.
Louise: Those become our critical priorities. Then we realistically define the time it will take. By then end of week 2 we will have the scripts written, week 3 records, week 5 production and then week 6 are ready to launch.
Andy: And we gave ourselves an achievable 6 weeks instead of less time because that allowed us to keep up with our other ongoing work, whilst growing our products and our brand.
Louise: Set YOUR critical priorities, don’t let them set you!
Andy: And you can make checking out our show notes on our website welcomechangemedia.com.au one of your critical priorities to get a copy of all the information from this episode.
Louise: Like making a list of everything you want your business to achieve.
Andy: Take an honest look and your values and plans and add a time frame
Louise: Realistically breaking that time frame down into smaller goals
Andy: And scheduling those goals into your calendar
Louise: Next time on Elevating Experts, staying motivated while managing your time
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It’s our specialty! Whether it’s a podcast or another audio approach to connect with your customers, Welcome Change Media can provide as much support as you need.
If you’re starting to grow and need to hand some of the communications over to someone else in the business, a brand voice consultation will help you to find and document the true voice of your business, so it is consistent, whoever is filling your shoes.
We’ve all checked in from time to time on social media, but have you got a strategy to grow or connect regularly and consistently with your community? Our tools will help to keep things simple.
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