A written warning is not mainly a telling-off. It is a record, and its whole value is that it proves four things at once: that the employee was told what was wrong, told what to change, told by when, and told what happens if nothing changes. Warnings that…
Six free employee pension plan templates in Microsoft Word, for explaining a workplace pension to the people in it. One thing to be clear about before you download anything: these are communication documents. The plan document itself — the instrument that actually governs the scheme — is a…
Six free occupancy agreement templates in Microsoft Word, for the gap between a property changing hands and the people in it changing. There are two opposite versions — a buyer moving in before closing, and a seller staying on afterwards — and confusing them is how the money…
Six free shipping label templates in Microsoft Word, for addressing parcels, printing return labels and marking what is inside. One thing to settle first, because it causes more confusion than anything else on the subject: a tracked courier label is not something you can design, and almost everything…
Six free employee non-disclosure agreement templates in Microsoft Word. Employment NDAs are more constrained than most people realise: there is a federal notice a US employer loses money by leaving out, and a growing list of things an NDA cannot stop an employee doing no matter what it…
Six free mailing label templates in Microsoft Word, for addressing envelopes, printing return address labels and running off a batch for a mailing. Most of the difficulty with printed labels is not the design — it is getting the template to line up with the physical sheet in…
Six free birthday party guest list templates in Word and Excel. A guest list is the first decision in party planning because every other number depends on it — food, seating, party bags, venue hire. And for a children’s party it needs several columns an adult party does…
Six free marketing budget templates in Microsoft Excel. A marketing budget is the only budget in a business that can prove whether it worked, which makes it the only one worth arguing about with numbers rather than opinions. The figure that matters is not what a channel costs…
Six free wedding budget templates in Microsoft Excel. Wedding budgets rarely fail because a couple overspent on one thing — they fail because most of the cost is per guest, the payment dates arrive earlier than anyone expects, and a third of the catering bill is made of…
Six free sales contract templates in Microsoft Word, for selling goods between businesses. A sales contract — also called a selling contract or sale of goods agreement — records what is being sold, for how much, and when. The clauses that decide actual disputes are rarely the ones…
Six free event budget templates in Microsoft Excel, for conferences, fundraisers, parties and company events. An event budget differs from every other kind in one respect: it usually has an income side. So the question it has to answer is not whether you can afford the event, but…
Six free student budget templates in Word and Excel. Nearly every budgeting guide written for students gets one thing wrong at the start: it assumes you are paid monthly. You are not. Loan and grant instalments arrive two or three times a year in lumps, and that changes…
Six free phone call log templates in Word and Excel, for recording who called, what was said and what happens next. One field separates a log that earns its keep from a list nobody reads again: not what was discussed, but what was agreed. “Spoke about the invoice”…
Six free wedding brochure templates to edit and print. A brochure does the job an invitation cannot: it folds out to several panels, so it can carry travel directions, accommodation, timings and dress code without turning the invitation itself into a leaflet. The same format, written differently, is…
Six free retirement plan templates in Word and Excel, for working out where you stand: what you have, what you are adding, what you will need, and the size of the gap between them. The whole exercise rests on three pieces of arithmetic, and none of them are…
Six free residential rental agreement templates in Microsoft Word. A tenancy agreement is unusual among contracts: most of what matters is not negotiable. Housing law sets a floor that a signature cannot lower, so the useful question is less “what shall we agree” than “what are we already…
Six free for sale flyer templates in Microsoft Word, for a property, a vehicle or anything else you are selling. Whatever you are selling, the same thing decides whether the flyer works: a reader must be able to see the price, the key facts and how to reach…
Six free charity flyer templates to edit and print, for fundraising events, collection drives and donation appeals. The design matters far less than one sentence: what a specific amount of money will actually do. “Please give generously” raises less than “$25 feeds a family for a week”, and…
Six free media contact list templates in Word and Excel, for keeping track of the journalists, editors, producers and writers who cover your field. A good press list is short and researched rather than long and bought — and the two columns that make it work are the…
Thirty service agreement templates and six service level agreement templates, free to download and adapt. These are two different documents and the distinction is worth two minutes of your time: the service agreement is the contract to do the work, and the SLA is the schedule that says…
Six free wedding gift list templates for recording what arrived, from whom, and whether you have thanked them. The hard part is never choosing a list — it is that gifts arrive over several months, cards come away from boxes at the venue, and three weeks later nobody…
