Capacity Calculator

Can the week actually hold this role?
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Leadership Tap · Capacity Worksheet

The role

Fill in the blue fields. Everything updates as you go.

Hours each layer needs

The hours per week this role truly needs to be done well — across all five, not just the billable work.

Total per week0.0 h

The verdict

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of a sustainable week
0.0 h neededcapacity 45 h

Hours needed vs. healthy target

Needed Healthy target for tier

Summary

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Leadership bench — capacity at a glance

Team Snapshot

Step back and see the bench. Cards, the firm-wide mix, and flags update as you edit below.

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Roles on board
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Overloaded
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At the edge
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Underused

Each leader at a glance

Big number = share of a sustainable week. The slim bar shows how their hours split across the five layers.

VisionStrategyDirectionMgmtTactical

Where the bench's time goes

Everyone's hours, totaled by layer. The shape of the whole firm — watch whether the thinking layers are thin.

Flags

What stands out across the team right now.

Team snapshot

The whole leadership bench at a glance — who the week can hold, and who it can't. Edit the blue cells; totals and status update live.

Role / titleTierCap VisionStrategyDirectionMgmtTactical Total% weekStatus
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Healthy target mix by tier

Healthy target mix by tier

These percentages set the "healthy target" each role is compared against. They're starting points — if your view differs, change them here and every tab recalculates. Each tier should add to 100%.

These are illustrative defaults to react to, not rules. Adjust to fit how Abonmarche actually expects each tier to spend its time.
Tier VisionStrategyDirectionMgmtTactical Default h/wkSum
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How to read it

What this is

Every role is really a stack of five different kinds of work. We usually picture a role by its visible, billable output — but the role also quietly demands direction-setting, managing people, and coordinating. This tool puts honest hours behind each layer, adds them up, and checks one thing: does the total fit inside a sustainable week? When it doesn't, the role as drawn is impossible — and that's the case for redesigning it, not for asking someone to try harder.

The five layers

Reading the overall result

Under 100%The week can hold the role.
100–115%At the edge — running hot, with little slack.
Over 115%The role asks for more than a week holds. Something is being dropped.
Under 70%Underused — there may be room to take on more, or to grow the role.

Reading the layer bars

Each layer is compared against the healthy target mix for the role's tier. The chip on the right tells you whether that specific layer is in balance — independent of the overall capacity reading.

On targetThis layer is within 20% of its healthy share — the mix looks right.
Below targetThis layer is getting fewer hours than the healthy mix calls for. The work is there — it just isn't getting enough room in the week.
Over — push downThis layer is consuming more than its healthy share and crowding out the others.
More than expectedHours are showing up here even though the tier targets near-zero for this layer — worth examining whether that work belongs in this role.

How to use it

  1. Pick the role's tier — it sets a healthy target mix to compare against.
  2. Set a sustainable weekly hours figure (the hours this role can give week after week, not a crunch week).
  3. Slide each layer to the hours the role truly needs.
  4. Read the meter and the by-layer bars: where it's over capacity, and which layers to push down or protect.
  5. Use + Add to Team Snapshot to send a role to the team view, and Save a Copy to Keep to download your work as a file.

Your work saves automatically in this browser. Save a Copy to Keep downloads a file with your changes baked in — open it on any computer to pick up exactly where you left off.