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The Vital Few

A Pareto principle coaching tool — find the 20% that drives 80% of the results.

E+E Consulting Coaching session worksheet
How this works: list out what's taking up your client's time and effort, rate the real impact of each one, and this tool ranks them to surface the vital few — the small set of items driving most of the value. Use the analysis to build a focused action plan.

1 Session details

2 Reflection worksheet

3 Rank what matters

Add each item, estimate the time/effort it takes and the real impact it delivers (1–10). Numbers don't need to add up to any total — just rate each item relative to the others.

Item Time / effort Impact (1–10)

4 The 80/20 analysis

Add at least 2 items above to see the analysis.

5 Build the action plan

Double down on the vital few. Decide what to reduce, delegate, or cut from the rest.

Your action plan prompts will appear here once you've ranked some items.

Saved sessions

Sessions save in this browser only. Use consistent client names to build a history over time.

The Vital Few — Coaching Report

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Client:
Date:
Focus:

Reflection

Ranked items

ItemTime/effortImpactGroup

80/20 chart

Key insights

Action plan

Commitment this week: