A team audit you can run in one afternoon

Six questions, one afternoon

You don’t need a consultant to find where your team is losing time. You need ninety minutes, a whiteboard, and the willingness to write down answers nobody enjoys giving.

The questions

What did you do more than three times this week? What breaks when a specific person is away? What do you check every morning that is usually fine? Where do you re-enter data that already exists somewhere else? What gets escalated late, and why? What would you stop doing tomorrow if nobody noticed?

Reading the answers

Anything that appears in two or more answers is your starting point. The last question is the most revealing and the one teams skip most often — it surfaces work that has outlived its reason but keeps running because nobody has permission to stop it.

Most teams find between four and seven candidates. Fix the one people complain about most, not the one that costs the most. Momentum matters more than optimization at this stage.