This is very important to manage your time effectively and the efficiently.

1. Priority Matrix
Dr.Premasiri Gamage
Chairman Business Development Centre
Sri Lanka
premasirigamage@yahoo.com

2. Priority Matrix
Urgent Not Urgent
ImportantNotImportant
 Important Deadlines
 Crisis
 Pressing important Meeting
 Emergencies
 Last minute preparation
 Dead line driven projects
 Relation ship building
 Personal Development
 Employee Training
 Exercise & Health
 Prevention & planning
 Recognizing
 New opportunities
 Some E-mails & Phone calls
 Many interruptions
 Some popular activities
 Some meetings
 Some phone calls
 Excessive TV
 Time wasters
 Some mails

3. Important & urgent
• Your boss asked you to
prepare a work report deliver
it by the end of the day.
• A medical case that might
lead to series problems is
neglected

4. Important Not urgent
• Finishing your education
or your Graduate studies
or taking training
courses.
• Planning for a tour in the
new year season

5. Not Important and urgent
• Filling up your car
with Fuel
• Having a hair cut or
shaving

6. Not Important & Not urgent
• Washing the car
• Spending the
evening with your
friends every day
• Reading the news
paper daily

7. End
Business Development Centre
No. 237/59, Polhengoda, Road,
Kirulapana,
Colombo – 05
Tel : 0115-661325
E-mail – bdclead@bellmail.lk