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A Week Under Control
A task and time planning system for small business owners and their teams, with printable templates.
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- 01One list instead of ten
- 02Do, hand over, schedule, drop
- 03A weekly plan in 30 minutes
- 04The day: three main tasks and time blocks
- 05Recurring tasks and deadlines
- 06A brief that doesn’t bounce back
- 07Meetings that end in tasks
- 08Email, phone and interruptions
- 09When the plan falls apart
- 10Printable templates and checklists
Who it’s for
For people who run a business and do the work too
There are more tasks than hours, and they arrive by email, by phone and on a colleague’s sticky note. You want the whole week in one place and to know what comes first.
Small business owners and sole traders
You’re sales, production and accounts all at once. You get one list, a 30-minute weekly review and three main tasks for every day.
Leaders of small teams
Workshop, warehouse, office or dispatch desk. Learn to hand over a task so it doesn’t bounce back, and to run a meeting that ends with names and deadlines.
Online shops, trades and services
Packing, customers, suppliers and official deadlines. Your calendar and a checklist keep track of recurring duties, not your memory.
If you want a guide to one particular app, or a way to get more overtime out of people, this book isn’t for you. The system works on paper, in a calendar or in any task app.
What you’ll learn
The whole week in four parts
The book takes you from a head full of loose ends to a plan that lasts until Friday, even when something goes wrong. Each part answers one question you ask yourself every Monday.
- I
Capture and sort
Where are all my tasks, and which of them are really mine?
- 01One list instead of tenGet every task out of sticky notes, messages and your head into one place, written so it can actually be done.
- 02Do, hand over, schedule, dropMake one of four decisions on every task, and tell what is important from what is merely urgent.
- II
Plan the week and the day
What will I do this week, today, and what keeps coming back?
- 03A weekly plan in 30 minutesSet up a five-step weekly review and plan a week with enough slack to last until Friday.
- 04The day: three main tasks and time blocksPick three main tasks for the day, protect time for them in your calendar and leave room for the unexpected.
- 05Recurring tasks and deadlinesBuild a map of your company’s deadlines, set reminders with enough notice and write your first checklist.
- III
Work with your team and the world
How do I hand over work, run a meeting, handle interruptions, and cope when the plan falls apart?
- 06A brief that doesn’t bounce backHand over a task in five parts, agree how much freedom comes with it, and check the result rather than the method.
- 07Meetings that end in tasksRun a 15-minute Monday meeting and leave every meeting with notes that say what, who and by when.
- 08Email, phone and interruptionsHandle communication in batches, agree an urgency rule with your team and get back to work faster after an interruption.
- 09When the plan falls apartIn a bad week, decide in ten minutes what to save, and step back once a month and once a quarter to check where the company is heading.
- IV
Printable templates
Where are all the forms and checklists, ready to use?
- 10Printable templates and checklistsAll 17 forms from the book in one place, each on its own page, ready to print.
Inside the book
What a chapter looks like
Every chapter follows the same shape: a scene from a working day, the principle, steps for tomorrow, a pitfall and a five-point summary. Six kinds of box run alongside the text. These samples come from chapters 3, 6 and 10, translated from the Slovak.
Study
The thesis and the optimistic estimate (Buehler, Griffin & Ross, 1994)
Students estimated, on average, that they would finish their final thesis in 33.9 days. It took them 55.5 days, and fewer than 30% finished by their own date. Even the ‘if everything goes wrong’ estimate held for fewer than half of them. For you: plan with slack, and check every estimate against how long a similar task took last time.
In practice
Strojáreň Brezina plans production with slack
Jana used to book the machines at 100% and the plan always fell apart by Wednesday. Now she plans at most 75% of the time and leaves the rest free. In the third week an urgent order arrived and fitted into the slack without moving anything else. A plan that holds until Friday is worth more to the team than one that looks ambitious on Monday.
Story
Rasťo and the new customer
Andrea at Preprava Vrba, a haulage firm, handed dealings with a new customer to Rasťo, her dispatcher. She told him why it mattered, where the price floor was and that she would approve his proposals in the first week. In week two Rasťo suggested combining two loads into one. Andrea gave him more freedom and won back about four hours a week.
Use it
Your first weekly review
Put a recurring Friday slot from 2:00 to 2:30 pm in your calendar. Empty your inboxes, look back, clean up your list, look ahead and pick three to five important tasks. Plan no more than two thirds of the week and finish the sentence ‘by Friday, this must be done…’.
Pitfall
Delegating responsibility, not authority
Handing over a task while keeping every decision slows it down and leaves the blame with someone who couldn’t decide anything. Hand over the limits within which your colleague can decide, too. And never plan work that can only be done with overtime nobody agreed to.
Template
Task brief
Five parts on half a page: result, why, deadline and priority, materials and limits, check-in. Plus a level of autonomy from ‘find out and tell me’ to ‘just do it’, and a box to tick once your colleague has repeated the brief in their own words.
The last sentence of every Study box starts with ‘For you:’ and tells you what the research means for your week.
- chapters, from one list to the quarterly review
- 10
- A4 pages
- 63
- printable templates and checklists
- 17
- minutes for the weekly review
- 30
Free sample
Try the weekly review before you buy
The introduction, chapter 3, A weekly plan in 30 minutes, and two printable templates: the weekly review and the weekly plan. We’ll email them to you as a 15-page PDF. The sample is in Slovak.
Price
One price, the whole book
€4.99incl. 5% VAT · one-off payment · written in Slovak
- The full book as a PDF, 63 A4 pages, in Slovak
- 10 chapters with steps for tomorrow
- 17 templates and checklists, each on its own page, ready to print
- Future editions of this book by email at no extra cost
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AESA Group, SE
transport.aesa.skPublisher
Written by a company that plans loads, people and deadlines every day
AESA Group, SE is a Slovak freight forwarding company. Every day it fits together drivers, trucks, customers and deadlines that change by the hour. It also publishes TaskFLY, a task app, but the book works with any tool, including paper.
The book grew out of that practice and out of research on planning, interruptions and meetings that we checked against the original sources. Author: AESA Group, SE · Róbert Sitár.
Published by AESA Group, SE
FAQ
What people ask before they buy
What format is it, and can I print the templates?
A 63-page A4 PDF. It opens on a computer, tablet or phone. Each of the 17 templates sits on its own page, so you print exactly the ones you are using.
Do I need an app for the system?
No. The system works on paper, in a calendar or in any task app. The book tells you what a good tool needs to do, so you can choose your own.
When do I get the book?
Straight after payment. A download button appears on the thank-you page and the same link arrives by email. The link is valid for a year and works for up to ten downloads.
I’m buying for a business. Can I get an invoice with our VAT number?
Yes. Enter your company name and VAT number at checkout and Stripe will email you a receipt that includes them. The €4.99 price includes 5% VAT.
Can I withdraw from the purchase?
For digital content delivered immediately, the right of withdrawal ends once you expressly agree to immediate delivery and acknowledge that you lose that right. You confirm this at checkout. If the file won’t open or is damaged, email us and we’ll put it right. Full details are in the withdrawal notice.
Can my whole team use the templates?
Yes. You may print and copy the templates for your own company, for the whole team. The book itself is licensed to one person: every page carries the buyer’s email and order number in the footer. If several people will read it, buy one licence per reader.
Is there an English edition?
The current edition is in Slovak; we’ll consider an English one based on demand. Join the waiting list on the e-books home page and we’ll email you on publication day.
I have another question. Who do I contact?
Email support@aesa.sk and the AESA Group, SE team will get back to you.
On Monday morning, know where to start and what can wait
Ten chapters, 17 printable templates and a 30-minute weekly review that holds the whole system together.