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Priorities · Starter guide

Too many priorities may be your real problem.

Why three to five important objectives can outperform twenty initiatives competing for attention.

Make the trade-offs visible.

List the initiatives currently competing for time. For each, identify the business result it is expected to change. If an initiative has no clear outcome or owner, it may be activity rather than a priority.

Choose the few that matter now.

Select three to five priorities that address the most important constraints. Define a measurable outcome, one accountable owner and the next milestone. Decide explicitly what will wait.

Review movement, not presentations.

Use a short weekly review. What changed? What is blocked? What decision is needed? Keep the priority stable unless evidence changes its importance. Close, pause or revise work deliberately.

Questions for your next management discussion

  • Can the leadership team name the same top priorities?
  • What will stop so these priorities have capacity?
  • Who is accountable for each outcome?

15 minutes. Owner to operator.

Start with the problem.

If this sounds familiar, tell me what is happening in your business. We can start with a short conversation.

Let’s talk for 15 minutes

Erich Stolz, CTP
832-372-5419
CFO@1CFOcenter.com