Successful leaders not only create a clear strategy, they execute it. Thijs Westerink, General Manager of FranklinCovey Benelux, shares some advice for leaders to increase engagement and drive strategy execution in this clip.
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5:46The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) is a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing on your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the whirlwind.
24:57Join Chris McChesney, as he provides proven insights on implementing practices designed to help leaders consistently achieve breakthrough results, especially in times of change.
In times of great uncertainty, leaders can freeze to the point of inaction or execute with excellence, increase trust, achieve more, and transform fear into engagement.
Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important - A wildly important goal (WIG) is a goal that can make all the difference. You're going to commit to apply a disproportionate amount of energy to it.
Bestselling author and strategy execution expert Chris McChesney outlines how The 4 Disciplines of Execution® can help leaders drive results, even during uncertain and ambiguous times.
5:58The Opryland is a great example of how WIGs can be aligned across multiple levels of an organization to create powerful results.
1:07Not all actions are created equal. Thijs Westerink shares some advice to help you identify the right actions to measure to ensure you achieve your goals.
Some actions simply have more impact than others and it is those that you want to identify and act on if you want to reach your goal. We call them lead measures.
The discipline of leverage requires you to identify and act on the measures that are predictive of reaching your goal and that can be influenced by you and the team.
9:04As companies, we have varying degrees of engagement and performance from our employees. How do we take the average engagement of our employees and move it to extraordinary engagement?
When you set a goal, are you committed and ready to achieve a winnable game? Or do you fizzle out? Learn to make commitments that impact your goals.
The discipline of engagement requires you to create a players' scoreboard so that members of the team can easily tell whether they are winning or losing.
As a leader, it is your job to clear a path for success and recognize performance. Learn how to create accountability with this FranklinCovey leadership tip.
1:35FranklinCovey’s Senior Vice President of Sales U.S. and Canada, Jennifer Colosimo, shares the most effective way to prevent the regression of employees into undesirable behaviors.
1:33In this clip, Chris shares the importance of playing a high-stakes, winnable game in the workplace.
We’re not advocating goals that are easy to reach. Set a goal that challenges the team to rise to their highest level of performance but not beyond it.
The quickest way to kill execution: lose focus or over-goal your team or your organization.
8:18Learn from the bestselling author of the 4 Disciplines of Execution®, Chris McChesney, as he discusses what a leadership team needs to do to navigate unnecessary complexity.
The discipline of commitment requires you to hold regularly scheduled team meetings where members make and keep commitments to each other to execute on the wildly important goal.
Does everyone know the team’s top two or three priorities (WIGs) and how they will align their efforts to achieve them?
