Coaching practices for Shared Priorities Workshop

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• People drop new "can you reprioritize this" requests on my team all week long and whoever asks loudest or latest wins
• The long-term work my team needs
• My partner and I keep clashing over things we both supposedly want, and I’ve been assuming we’re aligned underneath
• Everything on my list is labeled top-priority, which really means nothing is
• We’re treating this like a fight when actually we both want the same outcome

Practices that may help

1. Run a single weekly priority-setting meeting
   Replace ad-hoc priority requests with one weekly meeting where the whole team re-sorts together.
   The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
2. Protect important-not-urgent work as a team commitment
   Schedule Q2 work on a shared calendar so urgent tasks can’t claim it by default.
   The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
3. Mapping shared and divergent values in a relationship
   Do the card sort alongside someone important to you and compare — do not assume your rankings match.
   Values Card Sort
4. Maintain at most three active priorities at one time
   More than three active priorities is the same as no priorities — attention cannot be shared four ways.
   Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson)
5. Identify compatible interests for joint gain
   When both sides care about the same thing — quality, reputation, timing — agreements that serve that shared interest outperform splits.
   Interests vs. Positions: The Core of Integrative Negotiation
6. Define "important" explicitly as a team
   Before sorting tasks, align on what "important" means — which goals, for whom, over what time horizon.
   The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
7. Align on core values — where they are shared and where they differ
   Map which values you genuinely share and which you each hold separately — without requiring convergence.
   The Shared Meaning System
8. Schedule rocks in your calendar before anything else
   Block time for your rocks in the first planning step — before reactive commitments fill the day.
   The Pickle Jar Theory of Time Management
9. Create a shared bucket list with people you love
   A shared list is harder to defer and more motivating than a solo one — and the experiences themselves are richer.
   The Bucket List Method
10. Trade across differing priorities
    Give on what you value less to get what you value more — and have them do the same.
    Win-Win Thinking: Expanding the Pie

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