Welcome to another topic in work organization. Today we would like to introduce the Eisenhower-Principle
With the help of the Eisenhower principle, you can distinguish important and urgent tasks from unimportant and non-urgent tasks.
With the following classification, you can give yourself enough time for the important and urgent tasks. An overview of all tasks helps you to assign them to the four areas.
A-tasks - important and urgent: complete immediately
B-tasks - important, not urgent: plan
C-tasks - not important, urgent: delegate
D-Tasks - not important, not urgent: eliminate
An important task is in front of you if the following is true:
- The performance of the task is necessary for the achievement of the goal.
- Another employee is dependent on the completion of the task.
If the following is true, the task is urgent:
- The task must be completed immediately or by a certain deadline.
- A deadline must be met.
- Time must be allowed for feedback and adjustments.
- Another employee's time is dependent on the completion of the task.
Often tasks are not immediately important, but they are urgent. You can delegate them to someone, so you don't have to do the work yourself.
Tasks that are neither important nor urgent can be eliminated immediately.
There are three options for this:
Trash
You identify all tasks that have no relevance and eliminate them, means moving them to the trash.
Pile
Documents that have no function for current tasks are put aside, for example in a pile. If there are no urgent tasks at the moment, you can work on this pile. Otherwise, throw the documents away after a few months without checking them first.
File
You sort and file your documents. After a certain time, you can dispose of them after checking them once.
Try it out and use your time!