Energy Audit
Where your time goes determines whether you lead or just manage. See your patterns clearly — then change them deliberately.
01
Where does your week actually go?
Reflect your honest average week — not the ideal one.
Live picture
Reactive
67%
Proactive
33%
Total weekly hours
45 hrs
That's a lot — are you sure?
02
Your energy picture
Updates live as you adjust your inputs above.
Reactive time
67%
Covey's Quadrant II goal: <40%
Proactive time
33%
Covey's Quadrant II goal: >60%
45
hrs/week
Reactive (firefighting + admin)
67%
Covey's Quadrant II framework: most managers observe themselves operating at 65–70% reactive. The goal is to invert this over time.
Proactive (strategy + people dev)
33%
Mintzberg's observations: managerial work is dominated by fragmentation and meetings — making deliberate proactive time rare without structural protection.
03
How well are you spending that time?
Hours without quality are just presence. Rate each category on the value it's actually producing.
Firefighting quality
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Are you solving root causes or the same fires?
Admin quality
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5
Are your meetings and reports moving anything forward?
Strategy quality
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5
Is your strategic thinking changing how the team operates?
People dev quality
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Are people actually growing — or just checking in?
04
Your pattern
Your time allocation reflects a recognizable leadership pattern. Grounded in Covey, Heifetz, Mintzberg, and Kotter.
Energy pattern
The Firefighter
High reactive
Monday action
05
Discuss with a partner
Take a few minutes to reflect with someone next to you.
1
Where is your time going that your team doesn't actually need you for — and what would you have to trust to let it go?
2
What would look different on your team in 90 days if you actually protected the time your pattern says you're underinvesting in?
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