The Team Performance Playbook
Run your team's work through the PVC Filter
Purpose, Value, Capacity. Three questions that sort what your team should keep, hand over, stop or systemise. Free, no email needed.
Download the playbook (PDF)Picture your Monday meeting. Everyone is busy, everything is urgent, and the same things are still waiting on Friday. Nobody is lazy. Your team is carrying work that doesn't belong to it, at a level that doesn't pay. More effort won't fix that. Deciding, item by item, what deserves the time will.
The three questions
P
Purpose
Must this be done at all, and must this person be the one to do it?
Necessity and involvement. Habit and comfort are not reasons.
If no: eliminate it or delegate it.
If yes: move to Value.
V
Value
Is this a $5-an-hour task or a $500-an-hour task?
Leverage and worth. Admin and low-leverage work versus judgement, strategy and impact.
If $5: delegate it or automate it.
If $500: move to Capacity.
C
Capacity
Hours are fixed. To keep this, what do we stop, slow down or swap?
Trade-offs and resources. Capacity is a limit, not a suggestion.
Then: make the hard choice and protect time for the high-value work.
Run it with your team in 30 minutes
One meeting, everyone's plate on the table. The PDF has a sort sheet to fill in as you go.
0 to 5 minutes
1Dump the plate
Each person lists every meeting, task, decision and project they are carrying. No tidying.
5 to 20 minutes
2Run the filter
Every item goes through Purpose, then Value, then Capacity. Be honest about what is being done out of habit.
20 to 25 minutes
3Sort it
Each item lands in Keep, Delegate, Eliminate or Systemise, with a one-line reason.
25 to 30 minutes
4Name the one thing and the trade
The highest-value item to protect this week, and what gets dropped, handed over or delayed to make room.
Keep
Only this person can do it, and it is high value.
Delegate
Name who it goes to, and why them.
Eliminate
Stop it. Say what actually happens if nobody does it.
Systemise
A template, a rule or a tool handles it instead.
Want it done for you? The Quick-Win Pack runs the PVC Filter as a guided five-minute fix.
When the filter isn't enough
If items keep landing in Delegate but never leave, look at why. When a capable manager would take it on if they had the authority, the information and an hour free, the problem isn't the manager. It's friction in how decisions are set up, and no amount of sorting will move it. We have catalogued 43 friction points. Most businesses have six to ten of them. The friction check tells you in one question.
Find out what's landing on your desk, and why.
In 30 minutes Jimmy Burroughes shows you where decisions stall across your managers, which cause sits behind it and what it costs you in hours and dollars. You leave with the answer whether or not we work together.
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