Ideas on productivity, habit building, skill development, and making progress that compounds.
OKR examples written for businesses of 3 to 20 people, by area: sales, customers, operations, team and marketing. Plus business goals examples, team goals examples, and how to set OKRs without the overhead.
The one-on-one meeting questions worth asking, grouped by what you are trying to learn, plus a simple 1 on 1 meeting agenda for a small team where the manager is often the owner.
Quarterly planning in half a day: review the last 90 days, choose 1 to 3 goals, turn them into projects and owners, and run a quarterly business review that takes an hour, not a week.
What a RACI chart is, how to make one in 20 minutes, a worked example for a small business, and when a simpler accountability chart does the same job with less effort.
A shared task list fails for the same few reasons in every small team. Here is what a shared task list app has to get right, and 5 rules that keep one alive past the first month.
Most project management software is built for a 200-person company and sold to a 6-person one. Here is what a small business needs, what it can skip, and how to choose.
A standard operating procedure template you can copy, a worked example, and how to write an SOP short enough that your team uses it instead of asking you.
A stand-up meeting is 10 minutes to find out what is blocked, not a status report. How to run one for a small team, the daily stand-up questions worth asking, and when to skip it.