54: How to Prioritize When Everything Is a Priority and Your Boss Wants It All

How do you decide what to work on first when your manager hands you a list of ten priorities with no order and no deadlines, and every single item on that list is something she needs done right away?This is the exact same question that our client Mandy was facing when she joined the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women.Tune in to hear how Mandy found her starting point, what she carried into her next one-to-one with her manager and the surprising thing that shifted between the two of them once she did.Mandy walks through all of it in this episode. Where she started. What she built. What she carried into the one-to-one that shifted everything. And the one sentence she began saying to herself before every meeting with her boss.If you are a woman in leadership who is buried under competing priorities and quietly wondering whether you are the problem, this conversation is for you.IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL FIND OUT▪︎ The three questions Mandy asked about every item on the list before she touched a single one▪︎ The rule she pulled out of the Strategic Leadership Lab that finally told her where to start▪︎ What she built on a spreadsheet and why the tabs were ordered the way they were▪︎ What she brought to her next one-to-one instead of a status update▪︎ The sentence she started saying to herself before every meeting with her manager▪︎ Why her manager never changed her communication style and the whole dynamic still turned around▪︎ What surprised her most about being in a cohort with other women leaders▪︎ The question you can ask that makes a boss choose between her own priorities📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE▪︎ The Pareto Principle, also called the 80/20 rule. Taught in Week 4 of the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women.▪︎ The Vital Few, from the Sisters in Leadership curriculum on the busyness trap.▪︎ Strategic Leadership Lab for Women. Next cohort starts September 11. Early bird pricing closes August 15. https://sistersmart.com/SLA▪︎ The saying Mandy carries with her: no good sailor was made in calm waters.👋 ABOUT MANDYMandy leads a clinical department inside a large hospital system where competing priorities shift by the minute. She is a graduate of the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women and a member of the SisterSmart community.RELATED TOPICSThis episode covers how to prioritize when everything is a priority, what to do when your boss gives you too many priorities at once, how to prioritize tasks at work as a manager, the Pareto principle and the 80/20 rule applied to a real workload, how to manage up when your manager does not set a clear vision, how to build trust with a difficult boss, how to run a better one-to-one with your manager, how to stop being reactive at work, prioritization frameworks for leaders, workload overwhelm and burnout prevention for women in leadership, how to delegate and get input from your team, career advice for women in healthcare leadership, executive presence for female leaders, leadership development for women, women in leadership podcast episodes and how to get promoted from director to vice president.—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Yearhttps://sistersmart.com/register-sil—✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast—👩‍💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VPJoin Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP—💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSESWe offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.Sign Up for a Leadership Course—👋 CONNECT WITH JILL 🌐 Website: https://sistersmart.com/ 🎥 YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/