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Effective Prioritisation Skills Bite-Sized Training Course

Our Effective Prioritisation Skills Bite-Sized training course is a 90-minute training workshop delivered by a live trainer. Get the skills you need in this short-form training event that helps maximise your training budget.

Effective Prioritisation Skills Bite-Sized Course Highlights

Here’s some quick information about our Effective Prioritisation Skills Bite-Sized course:

  • 90-minute short-form training course delivered online
  • Can be delivered as an in-house course for your business
  • Focuses on one specific skill
  • Helps your training budget go further
  • Booking is easy. Just select a date and click Book Now!

Course Overview

Course Aim

To provide participants with practical tools and techniques to prioritise their work more effectively, manage competing demands, and improve time-focused decision-making under pressure.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the principles of effective prioritisation and time use.
  • Recognise common barriers to prioritising effectively (e.g. urgency bias, perfectionism).
  • Use prioritisation tools such as the Eisenhower Matrix and 4Ds technique.
  • Make more confident decisions about what to do now, later, delegate, or drop.
  • Apply strategies to stay focused and flexible in changing or high-pressure environments.

Course Content

Welcome & Warm-Up Activity
  • Group brainstorm: “What makes prioritising difficult?
  • Introduce the session and its practical focus
What is Prioritisation, Really?
  • Explore the difference between being “busy” and being effective
  • The cost of poor prioritisation: missed deadlines, burnout, inefficiency
The Urgent vs Important Divide
  • Introduction to the Eisenhower Matrix
  • What goes into each box and why does it go there
  • Interactive Activity: Mapping your current tasks into the matrix and reflect
The 4Ds of Time Management
  • Do, Defer, Delegate, Delete: Quick decision-making on the fly
  • Quickfire Challenge: Categorising a task list
Common Prioritisation Traps
  • Firefighting vs planning, saying “yes” to everything, avoiding hard tasks
  • Group discussion: “Which one’s your trap?” and how to overcome it.
Real-World Prioritisation Exercise
  • Scenario-based challenge: juggling tasks and stakeholders.
  • Group decision-making and rationale sharing
Keeping It Up: Habits & Tools
  • Daily/weekly prioritisation tips
  • Action planning and next steps

Want More?

You can learn more about effective prioritisation in our 1-day Time Management training course which covers delegation and a whole host of other time management topics.
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Our Approach

No PowerPoint

Yes, you read that right! We’ve removed PowerPoint from our in-person training courses. Instead we use more creative ways to deliver content and generate discussion.

Always Interactive

No matter how you attend, our courses are interactive and designed specifically for the delivery method being used.

Practical Tools

We minimise theory and focus on practical tools you can take away and use immediately in the workplace.

Clear Pricing

Transparent pricing for open courses and clear all-inclusive quotes for in-house and bespoke work.

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