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Creative & Goals Templates
Move back and forth between expanding ideas and turning them into goals, all on one board.
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SMART Goal Setting for Beginners: A Workbook to State Your Goal and Plan This Week
Anyone who can only write a fuzzy goal like I want to speak English uses this beginner-friendly SMART goal setting workbook to state one clear goal and plan the actions for this week. The whiteboard lays out Will, Can and Must in three columns to narrow the list to one goal, a radial diagram of the five SMART conditions, a four-step backcast from one year to this week, a frame for the rewritten goal, a table that contrasts fuzzy and SMART wording, and three frames for keeping the habit. The task board has four columns - write it out, fix with SMART, this week and review - and starts with 4 parent tasks and 12 subtasks, all not started. If you do not know how to set goals, filling in Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound in order gives you a goal that another person reads the same way. Unlike an OKR board for company-wide goal management, this workbook is built for one person setting a personal goal.
Mandalart for Beginners: Goal Setting Sheet That Turns 1 Goal into 8 Themes and 64 Actions
Students and working beginners who are writing a Mandalart for the first time use this goal setting sheet template to turn one central goal into 8 themes and 64 daily actions. The whiteboard runs on two pages; on the left a Will / Can / Must trio for choosing the single goal, the 3x3 core with the goal in the center and 8 themes around it, a four-step writing order and a frame for the 3 actions of this week, on the right the 8 themes x 8 actions grid of 64 cells and a weekend YWT review (did, learned, next). The task board has four columns, Brain dump, This week, In progress and Weekly review, and holds 4 parent tasks with 3 subtasks each, 16 cards in total, all not started. If the 81 squares of a 9x9 sheet make you freeze, fill the 3x3 core first, then write 8 actions per theme, and the sheet is finished without a blank page. It is the same structure as the goal setting sheet a famous baseball player wrote in high school.
KJ Method Affinity Board for Beginners: Write Notes, Group Them, Add Labels, Draw the Diagram
Beginners who need to make sense of open survey answers or meeting comments use this KJ Method affinity board to move step by step from sticky notes to group labels and a finished diagram. The whiteboard uses two pages - on the left the rules for writing one fact per note, a 5W1H radial map, and four labelled island examples; on the right the four KJ Method stages, a three-by-three worked example, an arrow diagram of the islands, and three frames on common mistakes. The task board has five columns - notes written, grouping, labelled, diagram and write-up, done - and starts with 4 parent tasks and 12 subtasks, from setting the question to writing the final text, all not started. Even if you have only ever stuck notes on a wall and stopped there, the one fact per note rule and the worked label examples turn a pile of opinions into one diagram and a short text. The board follows Jiro Kawakita's original order, so it works as it is for training days and seminar group work.
Brainstorming for Beginners: Run the Session with 4 Rules, Group Ideas, Then Narrow Down
If you are running a brainstorming session for the first time, this beginner template helps 4 to 6 people spend 60 minutes getting every idea out under 4 rules and then narrowing them down. The whiteboard puts the topic and the 4 brainstorming rules, a mind map that opens the topic into 6 branches, 3 frames for grouping similar notes and the Six Thinking Hats on the left page, then a 7-row SCAMPER checklist, an impact and ease matrix and a 5-step plan for the 60 minutes on the right page. The task board has 5 columns - topic and prep, diverging, grouping, narrowing down and next actions - and starts with 4 parent tasks and 12 subtasks, from preparation through naming an owner, all not started. If you are not sure how to run a brainstorm, or the same person always does the talking, read the 4 rules aloud first and give everyone 5 silent minutes to write on their own. The topic is not fixed, so the same board works for process improvement or new product ideas.
Work Concept Sheet: Lock In Your World and Tone
For anyone starting a creative work - a story, a film, an illustration series, an album - opened at the very beginning of the project and revisited whenever a judgment call gets hard. The whiteboard holds the core idea and intended audience, a mindmap that breaks the world into parts, a grid of decisions, references, and no-gos for each element, a frame that pins the tone down to three words, and a map of the order to settle things in. The task board runs from ideas to locked in four columns, and starts with four parent tasks - concept, world, tone, and guardrails - each with its own subtasks.
Strengths and Values: A Self-Discovery Workbook
For anyone weighing a job change, going independent, or rethinking how they want to work, opened when you can set aside a real block of time. The whiteboard holds the goal and ground rules for the exercise, a skill-versus-desire matrix, a grid for taking stock of past experiences, a mindmap that breaks your values into parts, and frames for other people's words and the conditions you want to avoid. The task board runs from writing things down to putting them into words in four columns, and starts with five parent tasks - taking stock, sorting, naming strengths, digging into values, and the next move - each with its own subtasks.
Portfolio Build & Launch Roadmap: From Audit to Life After Publishing
Open this the day you decide to rebuild the portfolio that should be bringing you work. The whiteboard holds your launch goal and audience, a five-step flow from audit to upkeep, a matrix for choosing which work makes the cut, the four things every case page needs, and a pre-launch check. The task board splits the job into five parents - audit, selection, case pages, site build, and launch - each with two child tasks sitting at Not started.
Doujinshi Deadline Countdown — back-plan from the printer's cutoff to weekly page targets
A circle organiser opens this template the day they commit to a new book. The whiteboard holds a frame with the event date and the printer's cutoffs, a mind map of the book's structure, the six stages from plot to submission, a week-by-page target grid, and a matrix for deciding what to cut. The task board is split into four parent tasks — plot, storyboard, artwork, and finishing — with child tasks like page budgeting and cover art all sitting untouched at the start.
Creator Annual Plan: A Year Built Backward from Your Showcases
Open this at the start of a year, or whenever a quarter turns, to lay out twelve months of making on one board. The whiteboard holds this year's theme and commitments, a quarter-by-quarter grid of making, showing and learning, a mindmap of places to show the work, the monthly rhythm and what usually stalls it, and space for a quarterly review. The task board has four parents - the year's theme, showing opportunities, quarterly making, and sharing and learning - each with three child tasks sitting at Not started.
Content Production Pipeline for Video and Blog — plan, produce, publish, and review on one board
An editor opens this template at the Monday content meeting. The whiteboard holds this quarter's goals, a four-quadrant grid for picking topics, the five-stage flow from planning to review, a piece-by-stage progress grid, and pre-publish checklists. The task board is split into four parent tasks — planning, research, production, and publishing — with child tasks like keyword research and script writing all sitting untouched at the start.