Learning objectives :

• Deciding on collective priorities: determining which projects to launch, continue, or discontinue, with a systematic approach and courage
• Setting your personal priorities: long-term to maximize your impact, short-term to make choices even when everything seems urgent and important
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Course :

Session 1: Collective Prioritization
One of the most difficult managerial decisions is not launching a project, but stopping one. This session provides participants with the tools and mindset to evaluate their projects objectively and make clear-headed decisions, even when the decision to stop a project is uncomfortable.

Example of a tool : A set of questions to step back and assess a project (structured questions to evaluate the relevance, feasibility, and actual impact of an ongoing project, regardless of the investment already committed) + an assessment of opportunity cost (ask yourself: if I used the same human, financial, and time resources on something else, what could I do, and would it have a greater or lesser impact? to make decisions to halt or reorient a project easier to make and accept).

Case Study : Analyze an ongoing project using the question bank, calculate its true opportunity cost, and collectively decide whether it is worth continuing or whether resources would be better invested elsewhere.

Session 2: Individual Prioritization
Individual prioritization has two levels: knowing where to focus your time in terms of your overall objectives (long-term), and knowing what to tackle first when everything seems urgent at the same time (short-term). Participants leave with two complementary matrices to manage these two levels.

Example of a tool : The Eisenhower Matrix (Urgent x Important: Urgent and important: do now / Important but not urgent: schedule / Urgent but not important: delegate / Neither urgent nor important: eliminate) for short-term decision-making + the Effort x Impact matrix (which activities produce the most impact for the least effort invested?) to focus your energy on activities with the highest long-term value.

Case Study : A series of case studies to help participants establish guidelines for prioritizing among several activities that appear to have the same level of urgency and importance, in order to overcome decision paralysis and make clear, confident choices.