Impact vs effort

Evaluate your actions, tasks, and ideas based on how they could impact your organization,...

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Evaluate your actions, tasks, and ideas based on how they could impact your organization, society, or the world. This tool is straightforward and can be used during events, quick discussions, or to prioritize tasks.

The process in detail

3 steps
  1. 1

    Brainstorm ideas, tasks, or actions.

  2. 2

    Categorize your notes on the matrix.

  3. 3

    Gather Insights.

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2. Categorize your notes on the matrix.

Place your notes on the Impact vs Effort matrix to figure out where they fit, relative to each of the other notes.

3. Gather Insights.

Items that are in the upper left quadrant (low effort high impact) are golden opportunities that are easy to implement. Items that are in the lower right quadrant (high effort low impact) typically have a low ROI (return on investment). To gather conclusions from this exercise, you can determine your priorities by prioritizing golden opportunities (upper left) first, followed by neutral opportunities (bottom left, top right), followed by Low ROI items (bottom right), which sometimes can even be left off the priorities list.

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  • High impact
  • This is a sticky note
  • This is a sticky note
  • High effort
  • Low effort
  • Low impact
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