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FREE INTERACTIVE GRID

Energy-Value Delegation Grid.

What’s filling your week, and how much of it needs to stay with you? Add your regular tasks, see how they affect your energy, and explore what you could keep, share, or hand over. Move things around until the grid feels right, then save it as an image or a PDF.

Open the grid
VALUE ONLY I CAN ADD → ENERGY IT COSTS ME →

How it works

Start with what’s on your plate

01

List the work that keeps coming back

Start with six to twelve tasks from a typical week or month. Or load a sample to try it out.

02

Answer two quick questions

How much does this task need you? And how do you usually feel after doing it?

03

See where it lands

Each corner gives you a starting point. Pick a task to look at more closely, then save your grid as an image or PDF.

The two questions

Does it need you? Does it drain you?

Across the grid

How much it needs me

Think about your knowledge, relationships, or authority. Could someone else take it on with a good handover?

  1. Ready to hand off
  2. Needs a handover
  3. Better with me
  4. Needs me for now

Up the grid

Energy it costs me

Think about how you usually feel afterward. A ten-minute task can wear you out. An hour of work you enjoy can leave you feeling good.

  1. Gives energy
  2. Neutral
  3. Tiring
  4. Draining

The four corners

See what could change

Energy it costs me →

Good to hand off

Who could take this on?

Lighten the load

Keep your part. Get help with the rest.

Share when ready

Hand it over when there is a good reason.

Keep and protect

Make room for this before the week fills.

Ready to hand off How much it needs me → Needs me for now

A closer look

Does every part of this need you?

If most of your tasks land on the “needs me” side, pick one and take another look. You might need to make the decision while someone else handles the preparation or follow-up.

Handing it over

Five things the other person needs

  1. Agree who has room to take it on.
  2. Explain what a good result looks like.
  3. Share the context, instructions, and access.
  4. Agree when they should check with you.
  5. Set a time to see how it is going.
Open the grid

Start with one task. You can come back to the rest. Your grid is saved in this browser only, is not sent to us, and stays until you clear it.