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Narrator: Today's word is "Prioritisation" — noun, pronounced /praɪˌɒrətaɪˈzeɪʃn/, with the stress on "sa".
Narrator: Prioritisation is the process of deciding the order of importance of tasks or problems.
Narrator: In plain English, it is deciding what to do first.
Narrator: It comes from priority, from the Latin prior, earlier, plus -ise and -ation.
Narrator: A common collocation is "task prioritisation", which describes ordering a to-do list.
Narrator: It differs from "planning", because planning sets out steps, while prioritisation ranks them.
Narrator: In healthcare, triage is a form of prioritisation for patients.
Narrator: Project management, medicine, software and business all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: prioritisation puts first things first.
Speaker A: How do I get better at prioritisation?
Speaker B: Rank by urgency and importance! PRIORITISATION comes from the Latin prior, meaning earlier.
Speaker A: So urgent isn't always important?
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Good prioritisation reduces stress", work. "Budget prioritisation is essential", finance. "Triage is medical prioritisation", healthcare.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: British English spells it prioritisation; American English uses prioritization.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Ranking is its cousin, triage is its twin, and ordering is the plain alternative, but prioritisation keeps its organised charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "prioritisation" in AI prompts — useful for task apps and product backlogs.
Speaker A: How would task apps use it?
Speaker B: Rank items.
Prompt: Sort my to-do list using an urgent-important matrix for prioritisation.
Speaker A: And product backlogs?
Speaker B: Score features.
Prompt: Apply RICE prioritisation to these ten feature ideas and show the scores in a table.
Speaker A: Could it help support teams?
Speaker B: Yes, tickets.
Prompt: Write prioritisation rules that move outage tickets above billing questions.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Personal planning.
Prompt: Help me with the prioritisation of my weekend jobs so the essential ones finish by Saturday lunchtime.
Prioritisation — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary