We give you support via email, web conferences, and weekly management calls, which maximizes efficiency, reduces costs, and allows for effective knowledge transfer to take place. Because your trainer and coach is not onsite and has a virtual relationship with you, this program requires your team to do the work required to produce the program’s deliverables. We teach, advise, and coach, so that you can replicate this program on your own time and again with consistent and reliable results. Our goal is to enable you to accelerate the results curve through a sustainable culture of accountability and superior business execution. If you’re ready to go, then so are we.

8. Sign off and agreement of all 90-Day Sprint Plan objectives, strategies, and tactics, with confirmation of due dates and deliverables by all assignees.
9. 90-Day Sprint Plan execution risk assessment with presentation of risk-mitigation strategies.
10. Best-of-breed Exception Report review methodology and calendar, with web-based training for managers.
11. Reward and recognition programs that foster a culture of accountability and execution.
12. Communication of 90-Day Sprint Plan and the Exception Report plan review schedule.
13. Communication of new and/or modified reward and recognition programs.
14. Stop Doing Assessment to identify management hours that can be freed and reinvested into plan execution, with implementation recommendations.

• During our review, we run all of your business objectives against our Business Objectives Fit Test to ensure they adhere to best-practice principles, are measurable, have baseline performance indicators and meaningful targets, and are timebound.
• Depending on the number of business objectives your organization is currently pursuing, we walk you through a prioritization process using our Business Objectives Rating Grid to ensure that your management team has the necessary focus required to be successful both short- and long-term.
• If your company does not currently have any strategic or operational plans, we will provide you with various tools to help your management team identify the five most-important objectives required for long-term business sustainability.

• To ensure that all existing, modified, and newly created business objectives adhere to best-practice principles, we once again run them against our Business Objectives Fit Test, which ensures that your plans are driven by real, meaningful, and tangible business results – each designed to accelerate the results curve.
• We then teach you how to appropriately cascade and assign every business objective in every plan to individual owners or champions (generally, these are company executives) and how to align these measurable performance targets with annual management performance objectives to create a laser-like focus across your management team.

• We guide you through the development of a plan review calendar that commences at the end of Week 7, after your 90-day Sprint Plan has launched.
• We provide you with the tools to run your plan reviews using our Exception Report methodology and begin to teach you how to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of your review meetings – which are critical to creating a culture of accountability and execution.
• We provide you with tools, templates, and ideas for developing and/or aligning reward and recognition programs that reinforce and support effective execution and timely results – which foster ongoing behavioral and cultural change throughout all levels of your organization.

• We provide you with communications templates to ensure everyone in your company understands the focus of the 90-day Sprint Plan, the timing of the plan review calendar, and the Exception Report review methodology.
• We ensure that you appropriately disseminate the Exception Report templates to your management team, and we schedule and host training webinars, as necessary.
• We help you put the final touches on any new or modified reward and recognition programs you have opted to roll out.

• We provide you with communications templates to ensure that everyone in your organization fully understands the scope and timing of the 90-day Sprint Plan.
• We provide you with communicate templates to announce any new or modified reward and recognition programs.
• We administer an online Stop Doing Assessment to identify standing meetings, committees, councils, project teams, ad hoc work teams, etc. that no longer provide value to the organization and should be eliminated or collapsed into other groups.

• We present the findings from the Stop Doing Assessment and discuss opportunities with your management team for reducing the number of hours spent in meetings; we begin to redesign your committee/meeting structure based on your management team’s direction.
• The first Exception Report plan review is held on Friday; we attend virtually via teleconference and/or web conference and provide your executive team with an assessment of the meeting and recommendations for improvement.

• We guide your management team to final decisions based on the results of the Stop Doing Assessment.
• The second Exception Report plan review is held on Friday; we attend virtually and provide your executive team with an assessment of the meeting and recommendations for improvement.
• We conduct a final debriefing with your executive management team and make final recommendations.

Integration of Front-Line Staff
Into Strategy and Execution

If you want to create a culture of innovation, then you first have to drive strategy and execution to the front lines. If your employees don’t understand the company’s vision and goals, then they certainly won’t be able to identify market opportunities that arise when observing how your customers use your products and services in unintended ways. We can teach you how to push strategy, execution, mission, and vision into every nook and cranny of your company.

Management Workshops
and Training Programs

We offer an assortment or management workshops and training programs designed to elevate the art of execution in your company. From two-hour seminars and half-day workshops to full-day events and ongoing training initiatives, we have best-of-class course material that will enable you to accelerate the results curve. If needed, we’ll even customize or create an event specifically to meet your management objectives.