Eisenhower Matrix - Free Template
A ready-to-use template for the Eisenhower Matrix - the four-quadrant grid that sorts tasks by urgency and importance. Sort your work (or your team's) into Do, Decide, Delegate and Delete, and put your time where it matters rather than where the noise is.
Based on our full guide to Eisenhower Matrix.
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What's in this Eisenhower Matrix template
The four-quadrant Eisenhower Matrix on one page - urgency and importance as the axes, with the four quadrants (Do, Decide, Delegate, Delete) and the action each one calls for, ready to sort your tasks into.
Practical guidance for using the matrix in workshops and team sessions, so the sort works as a group exercise as well as a personal one.
It's a PDF, so you can print it for a planning session, work through it on screen, or keep it beside Monday's to-do list.
Tips for using it
Be strict with the two questions - important means it moves your goals forward, urgent means it genuinely can't wait. Not everything that feels pressing is either, and if everything lands in Do, the sort isn't finished: your definitions have slipped.
Redo it weekly rather than once - the quadrants don't hold still, and this week's Decide becomes next month's crisis if it's left long enough. And when you run it with a team, spend the time on the disagreements: two people putting the same task in different quadrants is the conversation that's actually about priorities.
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