The phrase "ability to prioritize" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill in determining the order of tasks or responsibilities based on importance or urgency.
Example: "In this role, your ability to prioritize tasks effectively will be crucial for meeting deadlines."
Alternatives: "skill in prioritization" or "capacity to prioritize".
Too many tasks, lack of ability to prioritize.
The ability to prioritize is a key ingredient to a team's success.
Poor strategic alignment also hampers a board's ability to prioritize issues and set their near-term agendas.
Worse, it is not clear whether the Treasury secretary would have the legal latitude or even the technical ability to prioritize some payments over others.
Even so, Enterprise, like many employers, still finds today's college graduates severely lacking in some basic skills, particularly problem solving, decision making, and the ability to prioritize tasks.
The academic literature as well as our consulting experience suggest that the ability to prioritize is a key ingredient to an enterprise leadership team's success.
This tangle obstructs our ability to prioritize risks at the Department of Homeland Security, where I work alongside more than 200,000 colleagues, almost all of us civil servants (not political appointees) who will remain in place after the election.
But the debate masks a broader problem, Mr. Sahni said: Neither the intelligence agencies nor the government has the ability to prioritize or assess those threats, or to act on them.
This is what we call "executive function". It's like the air traffic controller functions of life: the ability to prioritize, not get distracted, make a plan, negotiate, get along with others, and manage emotions.
Before you write people off as being incapable of seeing the forest for the trees, take advantage of these psychological tools to build a workforce with the ability to prioritize.
Trump's comments about — and previous business dealings with — Russia have planted seeds of doubt in many Americans' minds about his ability to prioritize their best interests over his own or Russia's.
