When organizations, business units, and individuals describe their priorities, why do they often have a long list of items?
Is it possible to have numerous vital elements and for them all to be a priority?
If they all are, do we have any priorities? This applies to your strategies and initiatives and your monthly, weekly, and even daily tasks.
Your priority should be the one or two things that will positively change and impact you, either because of its addition or omission. It is the one thing that is important and a differentiator. However, as much as doing something well may be a priority, letting it go can be just as powerful. You may even find what you believe is your priority, is someone else’s, and should be delegated or handed off.
Our priorities and how we talk about them provide good insight into not only what we do, how we think, but even more so how we believe we make a difference.
