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Tool 3; Eisenhower matrix
You will learn how to improve productivity. The Eisenhower Matrix is a simple technique
that allows prioritization to be established, so that the workday is optimized to the
maximum and be as productive as posible.

1. It is a quadrant of two axes: importance and urgency. These are the two factors in which
we must measure each task, assigning them an absolute value (yes important / urgent
or not). The combination of these two axes will result in one of the squares.
✓ What do we understand as important? Those activities that bring us closer
to the objectives of our work.
✓ What do we understand as urgent? We talk about activities that require
immediate attention.
2. Once our tasks are placed in each of the quadrants, it is only necessary to understand
what each one of them means and how to organize ourselves regarding this method of
prioritization of tasks.
Quadrant I (Important and urgent); Although it seems contradictory, this quadrant
is the one that we should dedicate less time to: doing so means that we have poorly
planned our attention to the rest of the quadrants and that we have left our most relevant
work at the last minute.
Quadrant II (Important but NOT urgent): It is just the area where more attention
and efforts must be applied to avoid being caught by the bull. Effective people are not
oriented towards problems / emergencies but towards opportunities and act in a
proactive manner.
Quadrant III (NOT important and urgent) its importance is less, so it is
recommended to delegate these tasks as much as possible.
Quadrant IV (important NI or urgent): the tasks found in it should only be addressed
when all the others have been resolved.

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