Why We Built a Task Tracker Into the Lockgate Method — And What It Does For Your Business
he Progress & Task Tracker is a structured tool inside the Lockgate Method that gives small business owners a single, visible list of agreed actions, gate activities, and recurring weekly standards — so that every advisory session has clear accountability and nothing important gets lost between calls.
Running a small business is relentless.
You're managing jobs, clients, staff, suppliers, and cash — often all in the same day. Important decisions get made and then buried under the next urgent thing. Actions you intended to take this week get pushed to next week. Progress slows — not because you stopped caring, but because there was no structure holding the agreed actions in place, by date priority.
That is the problem the Lockgate Method "Progress and Task Tracker" was built to solve.
Clear Actions. Every Week. No Guesswork.
Moving a business forward requires consistent, focused action on the right things — not just whatever is loudest.
The tracker gives every client a single, visible list of exactly what needs to happen. Actions agreed on a video call are pasted directly. Gate activities also appear automatically as each gate opens, already described and sequenced. Every task has an owner and a due date.
There is no searching through emails. No trying to remember what was agreed three days ago. You open the dashboard and the list is there.
That clarity is what makes a productive week possible.
Built Around the Gates
The Lockgate Method works through six gates in a fixed sequence. Each gate has structured activities — specific things that need to be completed before the next gate opens.
As a gate unlocks, those activities land directly in your task list. Already written. Already in the right order. You know exactly where you are in the programme and what needs to happen next.
When actions are agreed on your weekly session, they go in the same place. Everything in one list — programme activities and call actions together, with no separation between the two.
What moves a business forward is a clear list of the right actions, owned by the right people, with dates attached — and a weekly rhythm that keeps returning to it. — David Egerton
Recurring Tasks — For the Standards That Matter Every Week
Some actions only need doing once. Others need to happen every week or month for the business to keep moving.
Reviewing your pipeline. Checking your numbers. Following up with live prospects. These are the weekly standards that build momentum over time. Miss them occasionally and it's fine. Let them slip consistently and progress stalls.
The tracker supports recurring tasks. Set the frequency, set the start date, and the task appears in your list every time it's due. When you mark it complete, the next occurrence is already there.
The decision is removed. The standard is built into your week.
What It Does to Your Weekly Session
Showing up to a session with a visible, up-to-date task list changes the quality of the conversation.
What got done. What didn't. Whether the priority is still right or something needs to shift. That is a more direct, more useful conversation — and it leads to sharper decisions about what the next week needs to look like.
Accountability works when there is something concrete to be accountable to. The tracker provides that.
Structure Is What Moves a Business Forward
Intention is not enough. Most owners have plenty of intention.
What moves a business forward is a clear list of the right actions, owned by the right people, with dates attached — and a weekly rhythm that keeps returning to it.
The Progress and Task Tracker makes that visible. It is one of the structural features of the Lockgate Method that ensures the work done in sessions actually lands in the business.