The Eisenhower Principle helps you to improve your time management. By setting priorities in a clear and unambiguous way, the most important projects can be completed first. The model is particularly practical for people in management positions, as their time is usually particularly valuable and they can easily delegate less important tasks to their employees. This, in turn, has the advantage that employees are more involved in the company's work processes.
However, the Eisenhower box also has some disadvantages. For example, it is often difficult to classify the importance of a task correctly. As a result, it can happen that important tasks are delegated to the wrong employees and as a result are not fulfilled sufficiently. Urgency, on the other hand, can usually be determined by deadlines. If no deadline is set, the employee must use their own integrity to decide if it’s urgent or not.
Another problem can be the uneven distribution of tasks. This is because often the tasks that need completing only concern a few people or departments, since important tasks are usually urgent and urgent tasks are rarely unimportant. Consequently, tasks like these cannot be delegated or put to one side.