FIP- First Importance First

Someone wants to borrow some money from you. From the different factors, you pick out the following as being priorities.

• Do you have the money?
• Can you afford to lend it?
• Do you trust the borrower?
• When will the borrower pay it back?

1. In doing a CAF on choosing a career, you may come up with the following factors: (If you had to pick out the three top priorities from these factors, which would you choose?)
   • The pay,
   • The chance of improvement or promotion,
   • The people you would be working with,
   • The work environment,
   • The distance you have to travel to get to work,
   • The interest and enjoyment of the work.
2. A father finds that his son has stolen a fishing rod from someone fishing in the canal. In dealing with the boy (aged 10) what would the father’s priorities be?
3. Do an AGO on buying clothes and then do a FIP on the objectives you find.
4. In deciding whether you like someone or not, which factors do you think are the most important? Give the top three priorities.
5. If you were organising a party, what would your priorities be?
6. A nineteen year-old boy want to spend a year travelling around Africa. He asks his parents for some money. What should their priorities be in deciding whether to help him or not?
7. When people vote to elect a politician, what do you think their priorities should be? Do an AGO and list four priorities.

Discussion:

1. Are priorities natural or should you make a special effort to choose them?
2. Are the priorities always obvious?
3. When is it most useful to find priorities?
4. How do you choose priorities?

1. It is important to get as many ideas as possible and then to start picking out priorities.
2. Different people may have different priorities in the same situation.
3. You should know exactly why you have chosen something as a priority.
4. If it is difficult to choose the most important things, then try looking at it from the other direction: drop out the least important and see what you are left with.
5. The ideas not chosen as priorities must not be ignored. They too are considered – but after the priorities

1. In running a school what do you think the priorities should be?
2. What makes a TV programme interesting? Do a CAF and then a FIP.
3. If you were in charge of giving out money for research how would you choose to divide the money? What would you priorities be?