The Art of Priority Setting
Feeling the pressure of too many competing priorities and not enough hours in the day?
You are not alone. For most executives, demand exceeds supply and capacity.
Get some advice on how to get, and stay, ahead on delivering. Scott Taymun and Catherine Masse, retired federal executives, will act as your coaches and share their accumulated lessons on finding your way in a complex and busy environment, based on their lived experience leading and managing complex files and transformation initiatives over the years.
Play the system, like a system. This Executive Chat will cover key behaviours, practices, strategies, and tactics for proactively delivering on priorities (‘offence’) while simultaneously managing the unplanned curve balls, from benign irritants to the genuine urgencies (‘defence’), that can clutter and derail an executive’s agenda.
This Chat will coach you on how to:
Play ‘Offence’
- Get your real priorities right based on the Deputy Minister’s PMA
- Manage your time and schedule through Proactive Agenda management
- Get your Team aligned, clear the roadblocks in their way and help them deliver
- Mobilize colleagues to ensure due diligence
- Manage governance and decision-making to get the decisions and cover you need
Play ‘Defence’
- The art of issue management
- Understand and situate the random requests and curve balls
- Protect your Team from noise, including pushing back on false deadlines
- Tips and tricks for rapid briefing note / issue note / QP note development
- Close the loop at day’s end
Event Details
Location: Virtual or in-person, all participants will receive a detailed confirmation email upon registration
Cost: This is a free event
Audience: All federal public service executives are welcome to register
Language: Bilingual
