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May 2026, past webinar
Too Much to Do, No Clear Priority: Managing Overwhelm
A practical project-management framework for turning an overloaded list of demands into clear priorities, visible trade-offs, and sustainable execution.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
3:00 PM EDT · Virtual
Speaker
Chimmie Agunwa, PMP, PMI-ACP
Project management leader with more than 20 years of global delivery experience
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Session brief
Overwhelm is often treated as a personal productivity problem. In projects and growing companies, it is usually a system signal: priorities are competing, capacity is unclear, ownership is fragmented, or work is entering faster than decisions can be made.
This session turns project-management practice into a usable operating rhythm. Participants learn to capture the full workload, separate commitments from ideas, define the outcome that matters now, and sequence work according to value, urgency, dependency, and available capacity.
The framework makes trade-offs visible. When everything is described as urgent, the team needs a decision rule and a person empowered to use it. A transparent backlog, short planning horizon, and clear definition of done prevent hidden work from exhausting the team.
Managing overwhelm also requires communication. Stakeholders need to understand what is being delayed, why it is being delayed, and what new work will displace. Clarity is not a promise to do everything; it is an honest agreement about what the team can finish well.
Core lessons
What the session helps you do.
Prioritize outcomes
Rank work by the result it enables, the cost of delay, dependencies, and strategic relevance, not by who asked most loudly.
Plan to capacity
Limit active work, protect focus, and leave room for support, review, and the unexpected work that every plan contains.
Communicate the trade-off
Every new priority changes an existing commitment. Make that exchange explicit and agree on the revised expectation.
Topics covered
- Capturing and classifying work
- Priority frameworks and decision ownership
- Capacity planning and work-in-progress limits
- Stakeholder communication when plans change
Who it is for
- Founders and operators
- Project and program managers
- Team leads balancing competing demands
- Professionals struggling with unclear priorities
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