Department 1 of 12
Leadership and decisions
Priorities, the board pack, the calls only owners make
MessyAs it is today
- The board pack is rebuilt by hand each month from three spreadsheets that disagree.
- Decisions are made in WhatsApp and forgotten by the next meeting.
- Nobody can say why last year’s big call was made, or who made it.
OrganisedFiled properly
Leadership / Decisions log, Board pack, Priorities
- One decisions log: what was decided, why, by whom, and when to revisit it.
- A board pack template that reads the same numbers every department uses.
- Priorities on one page, each with an owner and a date.
AgentifiedIt runs
- An agent builds the board pack every Monday from Finance, Sales and Operations.
- It flags what changed since last month and what is off plan, in plain words.
- Every meeting is noted and filed against the decision it touched.
One example from Leadership
Monday’s board pack
Before
Board pack v9 FINAL.pptxSlide 4: sales (from the CRM, last week)Slide 7: cash (from the bank, Friday)Slide 9: jobs (from the ops whiteboard)What runs on its own
- Reads Sales, Finance and Operations at 6am
- Builds the twelve slides, same layout every week
- Writes the three things that changed and why
What a person decides
The directors read it over coffee and spend the meeting deciding, not reconciling.
Always yours here: Which bids to chase, what to charge for the big ones, who to hire, where to grow.