Season 1 / Episode 2 S1E02

How Work Actually Gets Done: Tasks, Processes and Systems

Use input → process → output to break any piece of work into understandable steps.

Episode overview

Every piece of work in a business has inputs, a process and an output. In this lesson, we build from a single task to connected processes to the systems that make them repeatable, with a worked example from a small landscaping business, a quick diagnostic for where work breaks, and a one-page exercise.

What you will learn

  • Use input → process → output to break any piece of work into understandable steps.

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