Ep06 How to make a contract document more productive (with Triple O Productivity)
Speed up your contract with ‘Triple O Productivity’
Mindset:
Write for readability On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we are covering the Triple O Productivity way to approach your contract document.
This means systematically looking at the document and:
1. Obliterating
the things in the contract we don’t need,
2. Optimising
the things in the contract we do need, and then
3. Find the things we can Outsource
to others to make document writing and preparation faster.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Get rid of any part of the contract help support the main purpose of the contract
Optimise your contract for speed and readability by structuring it like a Reverse Sandwich – pull things that change to the front or back.
This contract hacking process of Triple O Productivity will has key questions for each stage:
1. Obliterate – Key Question:
Does this part of the contract support the main purpose of the contract?
2. Optimise – Key Question:
What changes in this contract and what stays the same… Is there a way to make this part of the contract clearer?
3. Outsource – Key Question:
Can someone else (or something else) enter that information into the contract for me to create the final document faster?
ACTIONABLE CHALLENGE
Two challenges for this episode related to the
Obliterate and
Optimise phases of contract document productivity.
Find a contract document which you use a lot, and test out the Quick Wins Checklist to see how much improvement you can get from ditching common time wasters.
Using the sample template from the Checklist Legal Resources vault, create a basic, electronically optimised Key Details table for a contract.
LINKS
Links to sources from this episode of the
Checklist Legal Podcast and background information:
Get the template Key Details Table and other free resources via https://checklistlegal.com/resources
Quick wins for contract productivity: a Nozbe.how electronic checklist
Caitlin Whiteman, ‘Why easy-to-read is easy to like – what science tells us about the remarkable benefits of simplicity’, (21 March 2016)
Music: Silent Partner, ‘Sway this way’
The eBook by Verity White, Secrets of Productive Contracts
Head to the Checklist Boutique for access to the other templates and examples mention in the show
