You are working with another department inside your organization on completing a project. You both have been assigned various tasks, and you wanted to approach the other department to make sure they are making good progress on the seven tasks that they have been assigned. You set up a meeting with the department leader. What is your approach going in? *

1. Call them and emphasize your highest priority to focus their efforts

2. Send an email emphasizing the importance of each of the seven deliverables

3. Assume they're clear about what you need and when you need it by

4. Let your peer in the other department determine what the priority should be

You have been tasked with a list of twenty-seven items to accomplish. You are not sure what the priorities are, so you go to your boss to ask them what is most important. Your boss says "They are all important. You need to get them all done." You walk out of the office. What is your next move? *

1. Detach, re-examine the task list and prioritize for yourself

2. Randomly select one of the tasks and start on it right away

3. Take on all the tasks and fail, just to show the boss they are wrong.

4. If I don't know what the priorities are, I can't execute

You are the leader of a team. You have assigned 14 critical tasks to your team that they must execute in order to achieve your key performance indicators. The team asks for a meeting to clarify which tasks are the most important in order to help them prioritize. What do you tell your team? *

1. I have no idea

2. Clarify which are your top three priorities and explain why

3. Figure it out

4. They are all important

When you try to tackle a multitude of problems at the same time, what happens? *

1. Multitasking is required

2. You excel and accomplish your mission

3. Things get done

4. You fail at all of them

In order to prioritize and execute in real time during dynamic situations you must *

1. First, visualize success and then you can achieve it

2. Relax, look around, make a call

3. React emotionally, channel your anger towards aggressive execution

4. Take on a multitude of problems simultaneously

When you struggle to prioritize and execute and are unsure what your highest priority should be, what should you do? *

1. Make everything a priority

2. Submit your resignation

3. Detach

4. Randomly select the task on which to execute

Prioritize and execute means that the priorities are fixed so you will not have to adjust to new, emerging priorities that supersede the previous priorities *

1. True

2. False

Something you can do to help prepare you to more easily prioritize and execute in any situation is *

1. Plan for likely contingencies that may occur

2. Get at least 8 hours of sleep the night before

3. Make sure your boss makes all the decisions

4. Don't waste time planning because the situation dictates

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