Book a Productivity Review

Free resources

Fourteen tools that put a number on the problem.

Calculators, templates and frameworks from twenty years of operations work. Every one is free, and every one gives you a figure you can take into a meeting.

The 4 Productivity Vectors
Vector
Format
Efficiency

Make the work move faster.

Where the time actually goes: meetings that repeat, inboxes that never close, days that fill themselves. Start here if the team is busy but slow.

Meeting Cost Calculator

Efficiency · Calculator

Meeting Cost Calculator

Salary plus overhead, per recurring meeting. Enter team size and see what the weekly standup runs per year.

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Free · 2 min

Email Productivity Routine

Efficiency · Infographic

Email Productivity Routine

Three passes a day: triage, decide, execute. Turns the inbox into a list of clear actions.

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Free · Visual

Free Google Sheets template showing how to plan a productive day with 30-minute time blocks, goals, and activity types like Growing, Operating, and Me Time

Efficiency · Template

Plan a Productive Day

Block the work before the calendar fills itself. A single page you fill in the night before.

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Free · Template

Effectiveness

Point the work at what matters.

Busy is easy. These put a number on the choice in front of you, so effort lands where it counts.

Decision Cost Calculator

Effectiveness · Calculator

Decision Cost Calculator

Labour, innovation at risk, turnover and advisory. Returns a total, a weekly burn rate and a velocity score.

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Free · 4 min

The One Thing app showing a final priority score of 60 out of 100 on a gauge running from Low Priority to High Priority

Effectiveness · App

The One Thing Priority Calculator

Scores impact, urgency, effort and alignment, then names the single task worth doing first.

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Free · App

3D Prioritisation

Effectiveness · Tool

3D Prioritisation

Plots the choice on career, reward and impact, for when several good options compete.

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Free · Tool

The GIDAR Analytics Framework

Effectiveness · Framework

The GIDAR Analytics Framework

Goal, Input, Decision, Action, Result. Moves a team from producing reports to driving decisions.

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Free · Framework

40 Data Analytics Buzzwords

Effectiveness · Ebook

40 Data Analytics Buzzwords

Plain language for forty terms people use without agreeing on what they mean.

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Free · Ebook

Ownership

Make it clear who carries what.

Work stalls when ownership is vague. These show who holds the decision, the risk and the relationship.

Stakeholder Mapping

Ownership · Template

Stakeholder Mapping

Rates power and interest one to five, so you know which conversation to have first.

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Free · Template

60-Day Operational Audit

Ownership · Framework

60-Day Operational Audit

A fixed sequence for finding the bottlenecks and the waste inside two months.

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Free · 60 days

Circular diagram for the High Performer Flight Risk Assessment, divided into four vectors (Behavior, Output, Growth, Engagement Patterns) around a central 2-Minute Diagnostic hub

Ownership · Diagnostic

High Performer Flight Risk

The early signals that show up months before the resignation letter does.

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Free · 5 min

Well-Being

Keep the human side intact.

Output bought with the team goodwill runs out. These protect the part that never shows up in a dashboard.

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Team Gratitude Exercise

Well-Being · Template

Team Gratitude Exercise

Sixty minutes, four vectors, specific appreciation. Runs on a Miro board with slides.

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Free · Miro + Slides

Meeting Types Cheatsheet

Well-Being · Cheatsheet

Meeting Types Cheatsheet

Seven formats matched to the decision you actually need out of the room.

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Free · Visual

The 4 Vectors Productivity Test: a sample result showing scores of Efficiency 72, Effectiveness 46, Ownership 84 and Well-Being 31

Well-Being · Assessment

The 4 Vectors Productivity Test

Six minutes, a plain reading of your pattern across all four vectors.

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Free · 6 min

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