I built the Value of Work Matrix to make that visible in one working session, using your team's actual work instead of a hypothetical case study. Two questions decide everything: does this work create real value, and does it genuinely require focused human judgment? Score both, and every task lands in one of four places: Automate and Scale, Protect, Why Are We Doing This, or the Danger Zone.
This toolkit gives you everything to run it yourself.
What's Included
- The Value of Work Matrix Workbook (Excel). A Start Here tab with the framework, five Business Unit tabs that walk each department through listing their work, estimating hours per week, and scoring it, and a Dashboard that rolls everything up automatically. Every quadrant total is weighted by hours, not headcount of tasks, so the picture reflects where time actually goes. Includes a bubble chart mapping every item across departments by value, focus, and hours.
- The Facilitator Workshop Kit (19-slide deck). A 90-minute agenda, step-by-step exercise instructions, discussion prompts for the share-out, and a worked example, so you or anyone on your team can run this as a live session without me in the room.
Most organizations don't have a bandwidth problem. They have a distribution problem.
This is the diagnostic tool to help you.
Who This Is For
CHROs, HRBPs, and senior people leaders who want an honest answer to where their team's time is going, not another engagement survey.
A Note Before You Use It
This is a structured working tool, not a validated psychometric instrument. It only works if you're honest instead of diplomatic. If a leader's favorite report ends up in the Danger Zone, that's the tool working, not a mistake to fix.
Format
Built for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, .xlsx and .pptx. If you open the workbook in Google Sheets, the layout and formulas hold up, but double-check the bubble chart on the Dashboard tab, chart types like this don't always convert cleanly between Excel and Sheets.
FAQ
- Do I need more than 5 departments? → Duplicate a Business Unit tab (right-click the tab, Move or Copy) and the Dashboard formulas extend automatically.
- Can I run the workshop without the deck? → Yes. The workbook stands alone. The deck is for when you want to walk a room through it live.
- Is this the same as the FutHRist Self-Assessment? → No. That's a free individual diagnostic. This is a team-level tool for mapping actual work against actual hours. The goal is to understand what is high value work and what drives enterprise value at the departmental level.
