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Prioritization, Decision Making: Focus on What Counts
3,006 students
Prioritization, Decision Making: Focus on What Counts
prioritization | decision making | OKR | KPI | critical thinking | time management | delegation | goal setting | GTD
Last updated 9/2026
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What you'll learn
- Use OKR as a mechanism for deciding what not to do, not just for tracking what you are doing
- Write objectives in the "from X to Y by Z" format and score them honestly at the end of a quarter
- Launch OKR in a team or company without the usual first-cycle disaster
- Choose indicators from critical success factors instead of from whatever the system exports easily
- Recognise anchoring, confirmation bias and framing inside your own decisions
- Apply OODA, Cynefin and cost-benefit analysis when nobody has the facts you would like
- Prioritise a week with the Eisenhower matrix, the ABC method and 4D, and defend the result
- Delegate through RACI and task-difficulty matching so that handing work over is a decision, not a hope
- Learn alongside Mike's 1.6 million students from 185 countries
- Get the author's experience from Preply, Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank
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Course content
15 sections • 38 lectures • 18h 55m total length
Requirements
- More things you could do than time to do them, which is the condition the course assumes
- No background in goal-setting frameworks needed. OKR and KPI are introduced from scratch
- Willingness to write down what you are deliberately not doing this quarter
- English at intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
- A spreadsheet for the objectives, the indicators and the time audit
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
A list of priorities with nine items on it is not a list of priorities. It is a list, and the sequencing will be decided later by whoever follows up most persistently.
Prioritisation is not the act of writing things down. It is the act of deciding what will not happen, in writing, before anyone asks.
Why the choosing does not happen
Everything on the list is genuinely worth doing, which is exactly what makes it hard. Saying no to something reasonable requires a reason, and most people do not have a framework that produces one. So the list stays long, work gets done in the order requests arrive, and at the end of the quarter the important thing is the one that did not move.
Then measurement makes it worse. The indicators were chosen because they were easy to extract, so the effort flows toward whatever was measurable rather than whatever mattered. And your own week disappeared into other people's urgency, which nobody planned and everybody accepted.
How the course is built
Thirty-six lessons in five parts. OKR first, twelve lessons across two levels — the short version for a manager and a team, and the full company implementation. Not as goal tracking but as a mechanism for deciding what not to do: the "from X to Y by Z" format, the quarterly cycle, and scoring honestly at the end, which is the step most companies quietly skip.
Then measurement. Eight lessons on indicators: critical success factors before measures, impact mapping, the traps, the reporting hierarchy, and the six myths that break most measurement systems, including the one about tying indicators to pay.
Judgement and your own week
Then six lessons on critical thinking, which is where prioritisation stops being preference. Strong reasoning against weak, the biases that distort every estimate — anchoring above all — and decision models for the cases where nobody has the facts: OODA, Cynefin, cost-benefit.
And finally the personal layer. The time audit that shows the gap between what you believe about your week and what the calendar says. The Eisenhower matrix and 4D. GTD, time-blocking and the golden hour. Then delegation, taught as a decision rather than a hope: RACI, matching difficulty to skill, and how to stop taking the work back when it comes out different from how you would have done it.
Who is teaching this
Mike, the number one HR instructor on Udemy. More than 1.6 million course enrolments, over 150,000 professionals trained, PHRi and SHRM-CP certified, HRCI representative in more than 10 countries. I built the people function of the unicorn Preply and worked at Wargaming, Alfa-Bank and iDeals. The OKR section includes the Preply and iDeals rollouts, and both took two cycles before they worked.
What is included
Lifetime access to all course materials
Active instructor support in the Q&A section
Udemy Certificate of Completion
Practical assignments and real business cases
A section with additional courses, tools and resources
The exercise this course lives on
Write down everything you intend to achieve this quarter. Then cross out everything below the top three and do not quietly keep them. If crossing them out felt impossible, that is the skill this course teaches, and it is not a time management problem. Enrol now and start the first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Managers whose list of priorities is long enough that nothing on it is actually a priority
- Team leads setting quarterly goals for the first time
- Specialists drowning in requests from several directions with no way to rank them
- Founders and functional leads choosing what the company will not attempt this year
- Anyone who sets goals every January and reviews them in December
- People who work hard, finish the week exhausted and cannot name what moved
- Professionals preparing for a role where deciding matters more than doing