THE FIVE-MINUTE WHITEBOARD

One of the powerful tools I use in my business is the Five-Minute Whiteboard. This is designed to ensure that everyone on the team knows which of our tasks are the 20 percent that will result in 80 percent of the results. It works for a team of up to seven or eight members.

I’ve installed a huge whiteboard in our office. We write each team member’s name across the top with a different color of marker. In our staff meetings, each person then brain dumps everything they have to do during the coming week. It doesn’t matter whether it is a small little thing or a really big thing—we list everything. After everyone has listed their tasks, they then put an “A” “B” or “C” next to each task to give it a priority (“A” for vital, “C” not so much).