Impact to Effort Ratio

In your Project Quartz journal, list the different pieces of a project you’re working on and/or other various tasks you could work on in the near future.

For each task, rate the impact it will have on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being least impact and 10 being most impact.

Then rate the effort each task will require on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being least effort and 10 being most effort.

Now, calculate the impact to effort ratio of each task by dividing its impact rating by its effort rating. (The lowest possible I:E ratio is 0.1, and the highest possible I:E ratio is 10.)

Start with the things that have the highest impact to effort ratio!

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Inspired by a tool we use in teaching and choreographing dance which we call the satisfaction to difficulty ratio, where satisfaction refers to either the dancers’ satisfaction (in a social dance context), or the audience’s (in a choreography context), and difficulty refers to how difficult a move is to either learn or execute. In both teaching and choreographing, we focus primarily on moves with a high satisfaction to difficulty ratio.