Free resources

Put a number on it.
Then fix it.

Calculators that run on your own figures, and worksheets with a column for who owns each fix. Free, and drawn from the Insights articles.

Downloads

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Each download comes from an Insights article and is built to be printed and filled in. One email address, nothing else.

Foundations

Getting more from the information you already have.

Planning sheet

Decision-First Report Request

Write down the decision, who makes it, how often, and what counts as an exception before asking for a new report or a new system.

Template · PDF and Word

Job Aid Template and Training Plan

A one-page job aid for writing up your own routines, and a training plan by role with a date to check whether it stuck.

Checklist

New Item Setup Checklist

Eight steps for every new item, a place for your own house rules, and a monthly review that catches manual prices, missing reorder settings and empty bins.

Revenue

Customers, sales and the demand that never reaches the report.

Kit · four pieces

The Follow-Up Kit

A huddle playbook for managers, the huddle form, a one-page field job aid, and a guide to turning the reports you already have into working lists.

Counter log

Missed-Sale Log

Record every request you couldn’t fill at the counter, then give each signal an owner in a short weekly review.

Account review

Commercial Account Review

A snapshot of your five most important commercial, fleet, municipal or farm accounts, and what each one really earns.

Operations

Service, inventory and purchasing.

Morning review

Work Order Stage Review

Every open job with its stage, what it’s waiting on, the next step and who owns it, plus a count of where work stalls.

Checklist

Physical Inventory Planning Checklist

Six weeks, two weeks and one week out, the count-day rules, and a review sheet that shows the gross variance, not just the net.

Planning sheet

Before-the-PO Planning Sheet

Why you’re buying it, four questions to answer before the cash goes out, and how to run a controlled test when the evidence is thin.

Worksheet

New Line Readiness Worksheet

Owner, setup and measures for machines, parts, service and warranty, and the questions to settle before the first season.

Worksheet

Effective Labor Rate Worksheet

Paid hours, billed hours and labor dollars by technician, what the shop really earns per hour, and which leaks explain the gap.

Administration

The close, the books and the money you’re holding for customers.

Working sheet

Month-End Exception Review

The five questions worth settling first, and a daily, weekly and before-the-close sheet with the owner column left for your own names.

Template

Customer Deposit Policy Template

Write your deposit terms once, set how deposits are handled at the counter, and reconcile open deposits every month.

Kit

Conversion Readiness Kit

The owner’s side of a system change: six phases with what has to be true before each one, a data cleanup list, a decision log and test scenarios.

Tracker

Warranty Claim Tracker

Log every warranty work order from the bay to the payment, capture what each claim needs, and review the open list every month.

Executive

Margin, leadership and the decisions that only get made once.

Monthly review

Monthly Margin Questions

The four questions an owner should be able to answer every month, with a checklist of where margin drifts.

Self-check

Exit-Readiness Self-Check

What still runs through you, the four questions a buyer or successor will ask, and a place to name your first three gaps.

Notebook

The Takeover Notebook

The questions to ask the previous owner while you still can, the five things to check first, and what to change now or leave alone.

Planning calendar

Preseason Planning Calendar

Look back at last season, then plan buying, staffing, service and cash month by month, with an owner and a date for each step.

Loss Prevention

Where value leaks out, and how it’s found.

Worksheet

Revenue Leak Worksheet

Put a yearly dollar figure on warranty, programs, labor, vendor terms and floorplan, then rank them against shrink with an owner for each fix.

Worksheet

Shrink Investigation Worksheet

Run every significant shortage through the same five steps, find whether the record, the process or the shelf is wrong, and fix the cause before anyone is accused.

Self-check

Small-Office Controls Self-Check

Write down who approves, records and releases each payment, find where one name appears twice, and close the most dangerous gap first.

Calculators

No email needed.

Each one opens inside its article, ready for your own figures.

Calculator

What is a margin point worth?

The gross profit a margin improvement adds at the same volume, and the extra sales you would need to earn the same.

Calculator

What is weak follow-up costing you?

Enter counts from four reports and see the revenue and customer money waiting on follow-up.

Calculator

What does slow stock cost to keep?

The yearly cost of carrying slow-moving inventory, and the cash you could put back to work.

Calculator

What is your shop really earning per hour?

Your effective labor rate from one month of paid hours, billed hours and labor dollars, and the gap against your posted rate.

Calculator

What could slipped warranty claims be costing you?

The warranty money not recovered each month from claims never filed, rejected or paid short.

Put it to work

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