Live workshopWorkforce Development training for teams
Prioritization Skills for the Workplace
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Prioritization Skills for the Workplace
- Duration
- Half Day (4 hrs)
- Tuition
- $395.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
When everything is a priority, someone still has to choose.
The most expensive failure in most teams is not slow work. It is fast work on the wrong thing. A capable person who spent three days on something nobody needed has cost more than a slow one, and they will do it again next week unless the judgment changes.
This workshop is about that judgment. Not a system for organizing tasks, but the harder question underneath: which of these actually matters, who decides, and what happens to the rest. Participants learn to make trade-offs visible rather than absorbing them silently, which is what most people do until something important quietly drops.
Operations and department managers use this where the team is working hard and the wrong things keep getting done. HR and learning and development leaders use it where employees are overloaded and cannot articulate what to cut. It covers deciding what to work on; managing the work once decided is Time Management Fundamentals.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other workforce development workshops for teams.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led half-day workshop
- Hands on sorting of each participant's actual current workload
- Frameworks for distinguishing urgent from important under pressure
- Practice making trade-offs explicit and pushing back with alternatives
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The session opens on the difference between urgent and important, which everyone can define and almost nobody applies under pressure. Participants sort their own real workload, then examine what happened: most find that urgency won, that urgency was usually somebody else's, and that the important work is the part that quietly slipped.
The middle is trade-offs. Participants practice making the cost of a request explicit rather than absorbing it, which is the single move that changes how a team operates. Saying yes and what it displaces. Saying no with an alternative. Asking the question that gets a requester to prioritize their own ask, which they can usually do if asked directly.
The last stretch connects individual judgment to organizational direction. Participants learn to check their own priorities against what the organization actually needs, recognize when they are optimizing for the wrong signal, and escalate a genuine conflict rather than quietly choosing. Every exercise uses their real workload.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Tell urgent from important when both arrive labeled urgent
- Sort a real workload against what the organization actually needs
- Make the cost of a request explicit instead of absorbing it silently
- Say no, or say yes and name what it displaces
- Get a requester to prioritize their own ask
- Recognize when you are optimizing for the wrong signal
- Escalate a genuine priority conflict rather than quietly choosing
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is appropriate for professionals at all experience levels. Teams that also need to manage the work once priorities are set can pair it with Time Management Fundamentals.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$395.00 per participant
Prioritization Skills for the Workplace is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $395 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Workforce Development training
Workforce development training for employees
The skills that make teams work are rarely taught: clear writing, communication, time management, prioritization, customer service, handling conflict, and presenting with confidence. DWC workforce development workshops teach them live, with practice built from your workplace.
Use them as an onboarding series for new hires, a refresher for a team under pressure, or a development step for employees who are ready for more.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Can these workshops support onboarding for new hires?
Yes. Communication, time management, customer service, and business writing workshops can be combined into an onboarding series for new employees.
Do you offer customer service training for employees?
Yes. Customer Service Excellence and Quality Assurance and Service Excellence are built for front-line and support teams, with scenarios drawn from your own customers.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.