Prioritize Your Work

Workshop

Learn how to use the Escalate or Educate Decision Tree along with factors such as importance, urgency, value, cost, pain, and level of effort in your prioritization strategy.

90% satisfaction

This workshop includes

You don’t need a bigger to-do list. You need sharper focus. When priorities aren’t clear, the result is:

Feeling overwhelmed by competing demands, with no clear path forward
Constant context-switching that drains your time and energy
Confusion about what to escalate, delegate, or drop altogether

Cost to the business?

Wasted time on low-impact work, stalled progress on high-priority goals, and saying yes becomes the default, even when it shouldn’t.

What's missing?

A Practical toolset for strategic prioritization: the ability to quickly assess value and risk, and act with clarity.

Audience

New Managers

Length

90 minutes

Cohort size

Price

Starting at $7,500

About this workshop

Participants will learn to prioritize effectively by understanding the risk of delay. By factoring in importance, urgency, value, cost, pain, and effort, they will quickly learn how to execute, escalate, educate, or eliminate work.

Skills you'll improve

Agenda

1 - Reframe the problem

Why time management isn’t enough

We’ll kick off with a quick scenario that highlights how well-intentioned “productivity” can still lead to ineffective outcomes when strategic priorities are unclear.

2 - Make Smart Tradeoffs

Use the Escalate or Educate Decision Tree

Learn a practical tool to evaluate whether to act, escalate, or educate—based on the task’s urgency, impact, and ownership. This simple decision tree brings structure to fast-paced environments.

3 - Measure What Matters

Weigh value, effort, risk, and pain

Using real-world examples, you’ll learn how to evaluate tasks against six critical factors: importance, urgency, value, cost, pain, and level of effort. You’ll see how these influence what gets done and what gets deferred.

4 - Real-World Practice

Prioritize without a perfect playbook

You’ll work through prioritization scenarios with a partner, practicing how to apply the framework and make tradeoffs, especially when you don’t have a team to delegate to or when saying “no” feels risky.

5 - Reflect & Commit

Group debrief and personal action commitments

Close the session by reflecting on what surfaced, sharing learnings with peers, and identifying one change you’ll make in how you prioritize at work. You’ll also get a prompt to bring your manager into the loop.

90% satisfaction

What Participants Are Saying

“In navigating a tricky situation with an xfn partner, I used Narrative Dialogue to understand where she was coming from and develop a solution to best meet everyone's needs.”

Eliza Worcester

Senior Product Marketing Manager

“I enjoyed learning the Whole Brain Model - it will sharpen the way I engage with different stakeholders and how I position my communication strategy.”

Jessica Rose

L&D Associate

“I worked on a proposal through each workshop and it's helped me to shape the insights and recommendations using to the frameworks we learned.”

Brooklyn Brown

Staff Product Designer

“I've adapted the How/What framework to better coach my team and guide them through problem-solving in more productive ways.”

Stephanie Smith

Customer Success Partner

"I found this to be a very valuable course, and Andrew was fantastic.”

Sara Beatty

Senior Product Marketing Manager

“I'm constantly using soundbites when communicating with my core leadership audience: What do you NEED to know and by when in order to do what?”

Sara Becker

Senior Product Manager

"I learned useful ways to communicate more effectively by understanding your audience and using more structured thinking."

Qi Gao

Senior Data Scientist

“I found the points around sparking curiosity interesting. Getting engagement on documentation can be a challenge since people's attention is pulled in so many different ways.”

James Oliver

Senior Engineer

"I knew what MECE stood for, but I fully grasped how the concept was useful when presenting to a group that might not know as much about something as I do."

Dylan Schwarz

Marketing Analytics Senior Associate

The Curious Lion Experience

Zoom like you’ve never seen

Not your ordinary Zoom call

We combine storytelling, music, energizers, breakouts, and hands-on learning to create an unforgettable virtual experience.

Learn from peers across functions

Cross-functional learning provides context

The best learning happens when ideas are filtered through the unique context of those we work with. Our programs all follow our framework for Cohort Learning Experiences.

Get real work done

A structured process for solving problems

We provide hands-on coaching while your people apply our thinking tools to their actual work to ship during the cohort.

Drive business outcomes

Align learning to your business strategy

With a team of strategy consultants and learning consultants working hand-in-hand, we are able to create learning products that drive real business outcomes (and measure this).

Meet Your
Instructor

Andrew is an expert in learning and development, serving in executive roles at global organizations like KPMG. As the founder of Curious Lion, Andrew and his team have developed 1,000s of leaders at clients like Workday, Pinterest, IMG, and USAA, winning numerous awards for their engaging learning experiences.

Kenny is the Domain Manager for the Web Development Domain at Codecademy. He contributed to a wide range of courses and paths at Codecademy, including JavaScript, Bootstrap, Handlebars, Phaser.js, Go, Swift, TypeScript, and Lua.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this virtual?

The program is built to be virtual first, delivering a Zoom experience like you’ve never experienced before. But individual sessions can be delivered in person.

Can this be tailored?

All our programs have a minimum level of customization by our team of strategy and learning consultants. We can discuss deeper customization in our discovery calls.

What audience is this best for?

We see the most success with a cross-functional audience of experienced individual contributors transitioning to leadership and new leaders.

Why the focus on problem-solving?

The core challenge of leadership is not having all the answers. It’s having the right questions. This mindset is at the heart of problem-solving. We teach new and aspiring leaders how to synthesize multiple perspectives into a strategic narrative and communicate clearly to diverse stakeholders.