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Modern Mentor

How to Prioritize Using ICE

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When we’re swimming in great ideas—too many priorities and possibilities—we need a way to effectively prioritize. The ICE framework is a simple way to assess an idea’s impact, confidence, and ease—helping us manage our limited resources wisely while delivering big results.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm

0:23.6

specializing in helping teams and organizations create better working experiences that activate better

0:29.2

results. Reach out to me if your team could use some help activating your fullest potential.

0:35.2

The other night, my husband and I tried a new restaurant with some friends.

0:39.5

It's our favorite crew to dine with because we all pretty much love eating everything. So we

0:44.9

tend to hit the menu pretty hard, and we have the waiters just put it all in the middle. This way,

0:50.3

everyone gets a taste of everything. It's a great strategy, if you do it right, which I will say

0:56.2

we did not. In hindsight, we started with the wrong question. We asked ourselves and each other,

1:02.6

what sounds good? Which is great when the options are limited, but there were a million and

1:07.5

everything sounded good. So we kept on ordering. When it happens in a restaurant,

1:12.8

the consequence is some gentle indigestion and a bunch of doggie bags, not the end of the world.

1:18.7

But when it happens at work, which it does kind of often, the stakes are higher. The consequences

1:25.0

are more consequential. This is where we get to overwhelm, to

1:30.2

burn out and dropped balls and disengagement. Because when a new idea hits a possible priority,

1:37.2

we ask ourselves, does it sound like a good idea? But way too many things, on their own,

1:43.2

sound like a good idea. Which is why we need to ask better

1:46.6

questions. We need a framework to help us assess not each idea as it presents, but all of our

1:52.5

ideas together. So we force ourselves to make choices, to prioritize. And this is where the

1:58.1

ICE framework comes into play. It's a simple tool that helps us make choices

2:03.2

when we're confronted with an abundance of creativity or possibility of options or directions.

2:09.5

So if your team is swimming in ideas and maybe some overwhelm, then let's talk about how you might

2:15.3

use the ICE framework to decide which ideas deserve your

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