Chapter 18. Setting Priorities
After you have finished reading this chapter, you should be able to accomplish one of the following: (1) noticeably improve your priority alignment as a supervisor, or (2) noticeably improve your educational and personal daily priority alignments as a nonsupervisor.
Priorities are a vital part of any plan. In one respect, they are the plan. They indicate what you feel is most important and what can be temporarily ignored. Obviously, people who are good at setting up priorities accomplish their plans or goals more easily and efficiently than those who are not.
In putting a plan into operation, you need to concentrate on doing the most urgent tasks first. Just because a particular task is assigned to you first does ...
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