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51 workflow templates, showing 25 to 48
Inquiry handoff
Every new inquiry reaches the firm’s conflict review and the responsible attorney as one complete packet on the day it arrives, with each missing item named and someone assigned to supply it.
- Starts it
- Intake coordinator
- Brings
- document, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Internal change announcement
One decided change, announced well: managers briefed first, a message for each group in the right order, talking points, and the questions people will ask, answered only from the decision or marked open. Every message is a draft that a person approves and sends.
- Starts it
- Internal communications lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Leadership meeting rhythm
Your chief executive gets a proposed calendar of leadership forums and written reports, built from today's meetings and the decisions left waiting: each forum with its purpose, inputs, attendees, frequency and one decision owner, and the hours it gives back. The chief executive chooses; no calendar is changed.
- Starts it
- Chief executive
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Manager feedback preparation
Every manager walks into a feedback conversation prepared like your best one: specific dated observations, the questions worth asking, a clear ask and the support on offer.
- Starts it
- Team manager
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Matter budget and status summary
The responsible partner sees one matter whole: scope, phases against their dates, the budget against fees to date and the projected total, a red, amber or green status with the rule behind it, risks and next actions with owners. Built from the time export and the matter plan, never a view on the merits.
- Starts it
- Matter lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Matter closing checklist preparation
When the handling lawyer flags a matter for closure, the firm's closing checklist is filled from the matter record: final billing as recorded, open tasks, unreturned items and the handoffs billing and records must accept.
- Starts it
- Operations assistant
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Matter-opening checklist preparation
Every accepted matter goes into setup and billing with one checklist: the fields each system needs, the terms that drive the first invoice, the documents on file and an owner for every open item.
- Starts it
- Firm administrator
- Brings
- document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Ninety-day marketing plan
An owner or first marketing hire gets the next ninety days of marketing on one plan: the stage the business is really in, the moves that fit it, who owns each one, the money and hours they use, and what is deliberately left undone. Every count comes from your own records, and no budget is invented.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 1 output
Outgoing work sign-off log
Every item that needs a responsible attorney's sign-off before it leaves the firm sits in one log, in the order it has to go out: waiting, approved or returned, with the attorney's own note. Anything close to its date with no decision is flagged first. The log tracks status and never touches the legal substance.
- Starts it
- Operations manager
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Premortem before a decision
Before your team commits to a plan that is hard to undo, such as a move, a launch or a new system, a short workshop pictures it a few months on, already failed. The record ranks the reasons, turns each top risk into a check, a warning sign and an owner, and leaves the go decision with the owner.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Presenter
- Brings
- notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Process map and bottleneck review
Map one process step by step: who does each step, how long work waits and how long it takes, where it is handed over and where it gets sent back. Then find the one step that caps how much gets finished, and what to try there first. The owner decides what changes.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Portfolio owner
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Project lead
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Analyst
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
SOP exception capture
Turn what your most experienced person does with the awkward cases into an exception register for one procedure. Once the owner approves it, every colleague handles those cases the way your best person does.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Stakeholder and decision rights map
Before kickoff, the project manager holds one map of everyone the project touches: each group placed by influence and interest, every key decision with exactly one accountable owner, the decision makers still missing, and who hears what, when and from whom. The sponsor confirms every decision right.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Thirteen-week cash flow forecast
The owner sees cash week by week for the next thirteen weeks: what comes in, what goes out, the lowest point and every week below the floor they set, with each assumption written on the page. The forecast informs the decision; the owner makes it, and nothing is paid or moved.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Training needs analysis
For one team, the HR lead or team manager gets what each role must be able to do, how many people can do it now, where the team falls short, and the training to arrange first, with who arranges it and by when. Counted by role, never a rating of a named person.
- Starts it
- Team manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Vendor renewal review
Before a supplier's notice date, the operations lead takes one page to the decision: the dates counted from the ones you supply, how much of what you pay for is used, what it has cost and what renewal would cost, how the supplier has performed, and the questions to ask. Nothing is sent or cancelled.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Volunteer shift options
A volunteer lead gets draft shift options once an event's availability replies are in: each role's needs set against who volunteered, the requirements on record and the shifts already confirmed, with every uncovered position shown. The lead checks and confirms; nothing is assigned or sent.
- Starts it
- Volunteer lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Weekly open-matter check
Every Monday the operations manager sees every open matter: which tasks are overdue, which have no owner, and which matters could not be checked at all. The managing partner gets one summary, and each responsible attorney gets a note that is drafted and ready for the manager to send.
- Starts it
- Operations manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs