Capabilities directory
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28 capabilities, showing 1 to 24
Annual operating budget
For an owner or finance lead preparing next year: revenue and costs by month and by team, built from this year's figures and each budget owner's drivers, every assumption written down, capital purchases listed apart, the whole checked against cash, and the questions leadership has to settle.
Board meeting pack
Before each board meeting, the CEO gets a pre-read built on the one decision the board is asked to make, with every figure from the company's own reports, an agenda kept mostly for discussion and the questions directors are likely to ask. Afterwards, a record of what was decided. The CEO sends it all.
Business trip plan
The assistant hands the traveller one plan for one business trip: dates and nights fixed from the brief, travel and hotel options with prices and the day each was checked, a day-by-day timetable around the meetings, the cost against travel policy and the bookings still to make. Nothing is booked or paid.
Client-status update preparation
Every client gets an accurate status update on schedule, drafted from the notes and the task list, with confirmed dates kept apart from estimates and the client’s open decisions in plain view.
Culture health check
A founder or people lead sees whether the company's stated values show up in daily work: each value written as behaviours you could watch for, read against the team's own evidence, with where practice matches, where it drifts, and two or three rituals to try. Reported by team and theme, never about a person.
Customer case study
With a customer who has agreed to help, prepare the interview, then turn their words and the figures they supply into a case study in a short and a long version. Every quotation and number is listed for the customer to approve in writing, and nothing is published or named before they do.
Deal close plan
Your account executive holds one late-stage deal on two pages: the buyer's case for buying now, counted from the buyer's own figures, and a dated plan of every step to signature with its owner on each side. The seller decides what the buyer sees; nothing reaches the sales system without approval.
Decision log
Your chief of staff keeps one register of what the leadership actually approved, across every meeting and message: each decision with who approved it, each action with one owner and a date, what is overdue, and a flag wherever a new decision clashes with an earlier one or revives a rejected idea.
Delegation brief and follow-up
Every task a manager hands over goes with a clear brief: what to deliver, in what form, by what date and time, why it matters, who will use it, what the person may decide alone and when the manager will check in. Each week, one list shows what is open, what is late and the next note to send.
Departing-employee knowledge capture
When someone is leaving or changing role, their manager gets an interview guide aimed at what only that person knows, then a handover document the successor can work from, every point traced to the conversations and marked with how sure it is. Nothing is shared until the manager approves.
Event plan
Whoever owns one event, a talk, a dinner, a webinar or a stand, gets one plan: the goal and target, who should be in the room, every step before, on and after the day with a date and an owner, and how each conversation is followed up. Nothing is booked, paid or sent by the assistant.
Executive week-ahead calendar review
Before the week starts, the executive assistant hands the executive one brief: every clash, every journey or run of meetings with too little time, every meeting with no stated purpose or no preparation time, and proposed time for the week's priorities. Nothing is accepted, declined, moved or sent.
Meeting agenda, notes and follow-ups
Whoever runs the meeting walks in with an agenda where every topic has an outcome and a time, and walks out with a one-page record: what was decided, who owns each action and by when, and what is still open. Nothing reaches anyone until that person has read it and sends it.
Presentation outline and talk track
Anyone presenting to a board, a client or a conference gets a storyboard built on one message, then a spoken script for every slide, timed to the slot and true to their own speaker notes. Every fact comes from what the presenter supplied, and the presenter approves the message and the words.
Project handover readiness check
When a finished deliverable is ready for the team that will run it, the project manager brings one checklist against that team's own requirements: acceptance evidence, instructions, access, training, support owners and open items. The receiving owner accepts or names the conditions still to meet.
Project intake and capacity review
When a new initiative is proposed, the portfolio owner sees it scored on the business's own criteria beside the projects already committed, the delivery days it would use month by month, and what it would crowd out or push later. The owner accepts, defers or rejects it.
Project lessons review
When a phase or a project ends, the project manager gets one blameless review: whether it achieved what it was for, how scope, schedule and budget moved and why, whether the success measures were the right ones, and practice changes for the team to choose, each with an owner and a follow-up date.
Project scope baseline
A project manager turns an approved brief into a draft scope baseline: the deliverables, what is excluded, the acceptance criteria for each deliverable, the constraints and the open questions for the sponsor. Nothing implied counts as scope until the sponsor says so.
Project status report
The lead of an internal project gets a status report the sponsor can read in two minutes: each workstream red, amber or green with the reason, what moved, who must clear each blocker, the decisions needed and the dates at risk. No milestone is called done without evidence, and the lead confirms every status.
Research summary brief
An executive handed a pile of reports, articles or papers gets one brief: what each source found, where the sources agree and disagree, the limits of each, and exact quotations cited to the page. Built only from the documents supplied. What it means for the business stays the reader's call.
Reviewer comments into one resolution list
The owner of a document that came back from several reviewers gets one checklist: every proposed edit and comment, grouped by section, with clashes between reviewers set side by side. Every item stays open until the owner decides it, and the document itself is never touched.
Sales call preparation brief
Your salesperson, partner or account manager walks into every meeting with a brief they can read in five minutes: who will be there, what has been said and promised so far, what is still open, and a plan for the call. Every line traces to your own notes or a public page, and anything inferred is labelled.
Sales proposal preparation
Your account executive answers an RFP in minutes, not weeks, with a proposal draft where every claim traces to approved company information and every gap is already a question for the right person.
Schedule recovery options
When a committed milestone slips, the project manager brings the sponsor two to four ways back: what each changes, the dates it gives every later milestone and dependency, and the assumptions it rests on. The sponsor chooses; delivery leads confirm the dates.