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The Alignment Operating Rhythm

Unite your team to make the best decisions to achieve your vision.

Playbook overview

Rollout checklist

Align the vision

Align the strategy

Align weekly goals

Align the learnings

Task Management

From kanban to collaborative to do lists

Frameworks Featured Templates

Eisenhower Matrix

The Eisenhower matrix is a tool used to help individuals prioritize their tasks by urgency and importance. It is named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who is reported to have used a similar system to manage his time. The Eisenhower matrix is helpful because it provides a simple framework for thinking about and prioritizing tasks. It can be used to quickly identify which tasks are most important and need to be done first, and which tasks can be put off or delegated to others.

Ivy Lee Daily Routine

This daily productivity method has been a key model since 1918 when Bethlehem Steel Corporation CEO hired Ivy Lee to help them increase productivity. 1. At the end of each workday, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. 2. Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance. 3. When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task. 4. Approach the rest of your list in the same fashion. At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to the following day. 5. Repeat this process every working day.

Meeting Strategy

Coming prepared to a meeting is critical to achieving a successful outcome. Understanding your desired outcome, your plan for achieving your desired outcome, and thinking through the obstacles that may present themselves, will help you to come prepared to achieve a successful outcome.

Meeting

Plan your next meeting with an online agenda. Define your agenda, tasks, notes, and your next agenda.

Morning Routine

Kickstart your day with a structured morning routine that fosters mindfulness, strengthens relationships, encourages fun, prioritizes tasks, and focuses on health. Begin with Mindfulness through affirmations, gratitude, and breathing exercises. Reflect on important Relationships, considering family, friends, and colleagues. Identify what excites you under Fun, embracing each day's potential. Plan your day with the Top 6 tasks, visualizing successful outcomes. Finally, assess and address your Health needs to maintain balance. This routine ensures a purposeful start, aligning daily actions with personal well-being and productivity.

Standard Operating Procedures

Standard operating Procedures [SOPs] detail the regularly recurring work processes that are to be conducted or followed within your organization. Document, score, assign ownership, and color code your full set of standard operating procedures to achieve a consistent business operation.

To Do List: The 1-3-5 Rule

An simple strategy from managing your daily to do list. The approach weighs each bucket - Big, Medium, Little, equally emphasizing the importance of achieve your one big strategic item each day.

To Do List

The "Do, Doing, Done" Task List Template is an efficient organizational tool designed to streamline task management and workflow. It categorizes tasks into three simple stages: "Do" for tasks that need to be started, "Doing" for tasks currently in progress, and "Done" for completed tasks. This clear, visual layout allows teams and individuals to track the status of various activities at a glance, promoting transparency and accountability. Perfect for managing daily activities or project milestones, this template facilitates a smooth progression of tasks from initiation to completion, enhancing productivity and ensuring effective task prioritization.

Weekly Direct Report Goals

This is an email sent out each Monday by 10am to your direct reports communicating what your top focuses of the week will be. Ask them to add theirs as well. This template combines Ivy Lee's top 6 priorities with Mathilde Collin's weekly routine.

Weekly Top 6

A Weekly Top 6, inspired by the Ivy Lee method, is a tool for identifying and prioritizing the most important activities for the week. Make them measurable. It involves listing six key actions aligned with core objectives and ranking them by importance. List the six most critical actions for the week, mapped to core objectives. Prioritize these actions by adding a 1., 2., 3., 4., 5., 6. in front of each item. Format as follows: "1. Eng: Deploy new migration..." (make them measurable) Score and color-code your Top 6: Green = 80%+, Yellow = 60-79%, Red = Below 59% *Once this is setup once, the template will repeat weekly (email reminder) with your objectives pre-set on the left

Weekly Update

Each week, send around this update template to your team to understand what got done, what are our goals for next week, and things that are blocking us.

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