Professional Documents
Culture Documents
70 %
of employees say
theyre disengaged
from their jobs
Less than 20 %
People with clear, written goals
accomplish far more in a shorter period
Know their goals of time than people without them
could ever imagine.
Brian Tracy
1. Source: Metrus Group survey
2. Source: Gallup survey
Engage your team in great execution
This kit provides a management model for goal engagement and great execution.
Set Goals Delegate & Motivate Track Status & Report Pivot
& Priorities Share Work People Action Items Results Quickly
Sample Goals:
3.
Deliver better content to our users to
increase ad sales opportunities
4.
Delight customers
5.
Define metrics You can spend your life running up and
down the field and never score.
for success Bill Copeland
Define a metric that will be used to assess success and Your Key Metrics:
when it should be achieved. Communicate the metrics
to the team so they understand how success will be
1.
measured and the value of the work. Keep the metrics
visible to reduce diversions by less valuable work.
2.
Sample Metrics:
Increase page views to enable higher ad sales
3.
40% Increase in Page Views by Year End
4.
Delight customers
100 Referrals by March 30
5.
Plan and Plan with audacity, execute with rigor.
delegate work Christian Bovee
2.
Sample Workstreams
Content Development 3.
Page & Site Design
Customer Engagement 4.
Ask for weekly status on results and for each primary action
and deliverable; use red/green light indicators to better Facts to have before
predict and prevent execution issues.
staff meetings:
Use your staff meetings to remove roadblocks and plan next 1.
weeks work rather than recounting last weeks status.
2.
Sample Status
Refresh the blog page layout with new style guide
3.
by Friday DONE (Mary)
Publish 2 third-party articles by Thursday
DOING late because Acme doesnt have pub 4.
approval (Satya)
Redesign landing page by Tuesday NEXT, HI 5.
PRIORITY (Maurice)
Measure results What's measured improves.
Peter Drucker
Measure results against the goal and metrics youve
defined. Determine who should provide the data
points on the key metric for each goal; ask them to
provide it in their report. Results you report:
When you get great results, give great feedback; dont What will you communicate upline as progress
hesitate to provide fact-based, unemotional feedback against the organizations goals?
where improvements are needed.
What level deliverable?
What metrics?
Pivot quickly Change is inevitable, progress is not.
Max McKeown
Respond to changing competitive, market,
resource and organization conditions by
redirecting efforts, changing goals, and re- Develop a checklist for socializing
planning work. and executing the pivot:
When overall goals change, pull the team What facts and decisions are needed upline to
together to communicate which facts and get support?
circumstances changed, the root cause, and
changes in plan of action. Have you re-set the team and provided logic
for the shift so they move seamlessly forward?
Make sure you know Track your primary Update action item Do weekly reports
the goals so youre action items and status as it changes directly from your list.
contributing to and deliverables; update and indicate red flags; Include action items
enjoy success! your deliverable list see and comment on youve done, are doing
after our staff meetings peer status. and plan to do next.
Provide comments on
red flag and late items.
How to simplify sharing and reporting with Workboard
Goals
Make goals more visible
with Workboard.
Create and cascade goals
that inspire.
Update dashboards on
progress to goal.
Workboard helps you With Workboard, your Your team can use Workboard makes it
clearly communicate team can track their Workboard to easy for the team to do
team goals to keep key action items and communicate status weekly reports on
your team on track! deliverables all in one on deliverables and deliverables, allowing
them to spend more
place accessible potential completion time on achieving
from iPhone, iPad or roadblocks to avoid results and less time
web. surprises. reporting on them!
Use Workboard to share and achieve your goals.