A free tool from The Alinement Brief
The Priority Scoreboard
Five priorities or fewer. One owner each. A status anyone can read in two minutes without asking. Print it, fill it in, update it once a week.
Before you start
Bring your ranked list.
Take the ranked list from your Alignment Snapshot — or whatever your team already agrees matters most. Keep it to five priorities or fewer; a scoreboard with fifteen rows is a to-do list in disguise.
Status is one of three words, nothing else: on track, at risk, or behind. Agree what each one means, in one sentence per priority, before the first update is due — otherwise status becomes a mood, and every owner grades their own homework the same way.
This week's sheet
Fill in one row per priority.
| Priority | Owner | Status | This week's update | Next milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Where it lives
Anyone can read it in two minutes.
A shared doc, a whiteboard, a spreadsheet — it doesn't matter which. What matters is that every leader can read it without asking anyone where it is. A scoreboard that's easy to hide from is a scoreboard no one uses.
Part of an ongoing series of tools for the weekly operating rhythm. Read the full story behind this one in Issue 9, or browse every free tool.