10 team tools for prioritization conversations
Simple frameworks to help your team prioritize efforts, problems, opportunities, and future-proofing strategies
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In the words of Stephen Covey, “The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” No matter who you are - a corporate team, nonprofit team, student team, community group, conference participant team, etc. etc - you need to always be focused on prioritization. How do you decide where to prioritize your limited time and energy? How do you prioritize problems? How do you prioritize opportunities? How do you prioritize resilience/ risk mitigation strategies? I prioritized including simple, super helpful tools in the book to help you prioritize in all of these ways. Following are 10 tools that you and your team should find particularly useful.
TEAM FOCUS PRIORITIZATION
T2.3 GOLDILOCKS CHECK-IN (p 130)
This tool helps you and your team prioritize how it’s going about its work by analyzing short-term versus long-term focused activities/ strategies.
T2.5 EISENHOWER CHECK-IN (p.134)
This team helps you and your team prioritize your efforts by analyzing what’s urgent versus what’s important.
T2.7 KANBAN CHECK-IN (p. 138)
This tool helps you and your team prioritize based on what workflow stage activities/ projects are in.
PROBLEM PRIORITIZATION
T4.5 PROBLEMS VS DESIGN CONSTRAINTS ANALYSIS (p. 182)
This tool helps you and your team distinguish between problems and design constraints so that you can prioritize solving actionable problems.
T4.6 PROBLEM PRIORITIZATION ANALYSIS (p. 184)
This tool helps you and your team prioritize problems by analyzing frequency and severity.
T5.4 WELL-BEING MAP (p. 198)
This tool helps you and your team analyze all of the ways that someone may or may not be feeling a sense of well-being so that you can prioritize where and how to offer support.
OPPORTUNITY PRIORITIZATION
T3.2 IMPACT + EFFORT WHITEBOARD (p. 150)
This tool helps you prioritize solutions that strike the right balance between projected positive impact and effort.
T3.3 IMPACT + UNCERTAINTY WHITEBOARD (p. 152)
This tool helps you prioritize solutions that strike the right balance between projected positive impact and uncertainty.
T8.4 DIFFUSION STRATEGY (p. 262)
This tool helps you prioritize who should be your first clients/ beneficiaries.
FUTURE-PROOFING PRIORITIZATION
T13.1 RESILIENCE ANALYSIS + STRATEGY (p. 332)
This tool helps you analyze potential threats so that you can prioritize your design/ strategy accordingly.
I hope you found this helpful. Please do reach out to me at gregvankirk@gmail.com or on LinkedIn if I can be of help. And if you haven’t purchased IT’S WHAT YOU SET IN MOTION: A TOOLBOX FOR COLLABORATIVE CHANGEMAKING, go to collaborativechangemaking.com.
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