1. Harvard ManageMentor ® Setting Your Daily Priorities and Schedule

2. 2 Harvard ManageMentor: Setting Your Daily Priorities and Schedule Discussion Topics  Setting daily priorities  Achieving daily priorities  Scheduling time more effectively © Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

3. 3 Harvard ManageMentor: Setting Your Daily Priorities and Schedule Setting Daily Priorities  How do you set your priorities for a given day? How do you decide which tasks to do, and when to do them?  Are there approaches for setting priorities that would work best for our group? Why? © Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

4. 4 Harvard ManageMentor: Setting Your Daily Priorities and Schedule Achieving Daily Priorities  What are some of the challenges to achieving the priorities you set in a given day?  Are there organizational processes that get in the way of getting the most important things done?  What are ways to overcome some of these barriers to achieving the priorities we set on our team? © Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

5. 5 Harvard ManageMentor: Setting Your Daily Priorities and Schedule Scheduling Time More Effectively  What practical steps can we take to schedule our time more effectively? What tips can you share in using various scheduling tools, such as: “To-do” lists Appointment calendars Daily and weekly planners Electronic scheduling software  What adjustments might we consider to our organizational processes that would result in better use of the team’s time? © Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

6. 6 Harvard ManageMentor: Setting Your Daily Priorities and Schedule Next Steps  Consider some of the specific steps you can take to help your team improve individual and collective time management skills.  Consider working through one or more of the Harvard ManageMentor tools, such as: “To-do” list Worksheet for Breaking Goals into Tasks © Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.