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The Weekly Operating Rhythm
The whole toolbox on one page: the forecast on Monday, the scoreboard before the meeting, the meeting itself, and the quarterly reset. Write in your owners and your meeting time, print it, and keep it where your scoreboard lives.
Before you start
A page stays alive only when the calendar asks for it.
Each of the five tools works on its own, and each one gets abandoned on its own. A scoreboard no meeting reads stops being updated. A meeting with no scoreboard drifts back to status updates. A forecast built during a cash crunch gets abandoned the week the concern passes. This sheet is the fix: the schedule that makes every page earn its keep, week after week.
Starting from zero? Don't install all five in one week. Snapshot first, scoreboard second, the meeting third. Run those three for a month, then add the forecast, and the AI card last.
Every week
Three moments, one hour and change.
| When | The page | What happens | Minutes | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday morning | 13-Week Cash Forecast | Compare last week's forecast to what actually happened. Update the bank balance. Roll the horizon forward one week. Note the low point and the week it lands. | 20 | The cash owner: |
| Before the meeting | Priority Scoreboard | Each owner updates their own lines: status, one line on what actually moved, next milestone. The meeting reads the scoreboard. It doesn't build it. | 5 per owner | Every priority owner |
| Meeting day | 60-Minute Agenda | Statuses (5): every priority line, then the cash low point, then any AI card change, inside the same five minutes. Last week's list and the follow-through rate (10). Top three at-risk items worked into decisions (35). Read-back and close (10). | 60 | The leadership team. Day and time: |
Every quarter
One reset, so the rhythm stays pointed at the target.
| When | The page | What happens | Next reset (month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Once a quarter | Alignment Snapshot | Three questions, answered independently and in writing. Converge at the next meeting: top three priorities in order, the one obstacle to clear, one shared sentence for what winning looks like. | |
| Same sitting | AI Workflow Card | A fresh look at the three rows: fold what worked into the job it serves, stop what its owner keeps rewriting, write in the next candidate. |
The five pages
Each row on this sheet has its own one-pager.
Every tool this sheet schedules is free and printable: the Alignment Snapshot, the Priority Scoreboard, the 60-Minute Agenda, the 13-Week Cash Forecast, and the AI Workflow Card. Or browse every free tool.
This sheet is the capstone of a five-tool series. The full walkthrough, including why tools adopted one at a time quietly die and the honest count of what the rhythm replaces, is in Issue 13 of The Alinement Brief.