The 360 LeadHERship Podcast

#060 How to Prioritise Your Workload Like a CEO


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Do you ever look at your to-do list and feel completely defeated?

Sometimes you have so many priorities, you don't even know where to start, right?

The higher up the ladder you climb, the more that is on your plate in terms of responsibilities. This can get very overwhelming, very quickly.

Everything seems “URGENT”. And because you are leading a team, there are so many different aspects you have to oversee and deal with. It's the end of year deadlines, it's looking ahead at next year, it’s budgets, it’s headcount costs, it’s hiring, it's getting clear on your strategy for next year. It’s meeting upon meeting when many could have just been an email status update.

As well as this, ‘urgent’ and ‘important’ are extremely subjective. So it depends, what you might deem as urgent and important is very different to what others might deem as urgent and important. 

There's just so much going on at any one time. It is hard to know what to prioritise when everything seems so urgent, right? 

This episode shares a simple tool that will help you prioritise like a CEO. I call it the Powerhouse Prioritisation Matrix. This is super simple and super effective and guaranteed to help you prioritise like a boss. I have included the tool as part of  a free work life balance guide that I created for you which shares 5 strategies to help you overcome negative self talk and improve work-life balance. 


Here’s the episode at a glance:

[06:47] How to prioritise when you can’t see the wood for the trees

[9:50] How to be more strategic and focus on tasks that will get you noticed 

[10:57] A simple rule to determine exactly what you should delegate

[13:06] How to stop procrastinating and getting distracted so you get more done 


Links mentioned:

Free work life balance guide (includes prioritisation matrix) 

Read the podcast notes and full transcript at:
www.lucygernon.com/blog/prioritise-your-workload

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