This is the episode that puts together all the previous episodes and ideas into one full process overview…
- We run through the four big Secrets of Productive Contracts
- We step through six steps of how to make a Reverse Sandwich Contract™ which makes use of those four contract secrets
‘Lawyers must consciously imagine contract structures that will promote full understanding of the purposes and provisions of a contract…’ Thomas Barton, Helena Haapio, and Tatiana Borisova, ‘Flexibility and Stability in Contracts’© (2014) Retrieved via ulapland.fi/loader.aspx?id=5a80d6cd-83dd-4126-bb16-a069b85533d2, accessed 10 June 2017.
In Episode 01 (Productive Contracts: Reverse Sandwich Contracts), we met our productivity powerhouse, the Reverse Sandwich Contract™. We learnt the basic concept and structure of a Reverse Sandwich Contract and why it makes for a tasty contracting experience.
In Episode 02 (A contract is not a bit of paper), we started thinking digitally about how we work with contracts and contract users.
By Episode 03 (Be a lazy lawyer) and Episode 04 (Delegate like Beyonce), we were starting to think like a lazy lawyer and keep a look out for minions so we can delegate like Beyonce.
From Episode 05 (Triple O Productivity) all the way to Episode 10 (How to map a contract process), we covered a lot of productivity ground. We learnt how to apply Triple O Productivity to everything we touch – the contract document (Episode 06) and contract process (Episode 09) – to streamline our contract into a productivity producing beast. We learnt the SLAPP test in Episode 07 to streamline contracts and we tried to lose legalese from our contracts in Episode 08.
We know we can’t put lipstick on a pig of a process and expect miracles. We do the work to understand the contract process before we try to palm off our process problems to software or our contract users.
We Obliterated everything we don’t need from our contract process and contract document. We Optimised the document to be as easy to read as possible (and then SLAPPed it to make sure). We know we can SLAPP our contract document into shape if we ever want to do a quick productivity check-up on the contract document to make sure it’s easy to read and use for all.
We Optimised the process to be as smooth as possible with the least number of steps. We channelled our inner Beyoncé to Outsource parts of the contract document creation and aspects of the contract process to ready and (mostly) willing human and robot minions.
Now, it is time to put all the secrets together and make our very own Reverse Sandwich Contract™.