Improving Team Level Execution

Execution Turns Ideas Into Reality

It's simple. Ideas turn into reality when the people tasked with the work have clarity and focus and discipline to spend their time and resources only on the things that drive the goals forward.

Work teams that are focused and executing on your most important objectives:

• Drive financial performance
• Improve customer loyalty
• Magnify the contribution your company makes to the world

But what separates organisations that achieve greatness from those that don't, even in the face of similar market conditions and workforce talent? It comes down to one thing; execution. While strategies are launched and goals are set with the best of intentions, the inability to execute is a pervasive, universal challenge.

Success Starts with "Moving the Middle" to a Higher Standard of Execution

In a day of unprecedented opportunity—and risk—the importance for teams in your organisation to consistently execute on your most critical objectives cannot be overstated. And in every organisation, you will find pockets of great execution—a "top 20%" of performance. The problem lies in moving the middle, the 60% of your workforce that simply meets expectations, toward the level of performance that drives the top 20%.

This improvement doesn't produce incremental results. It creates breakthrough achievement.

FranklinCovey Understands the Problem of Execution—and the Solution

As the recognised leader in helping individuals and organisations achieve greatness, FranklinCovey has dedicated itself to understanding the complex problem of execution and how to effectively address its causes at an unprecedented level.

In pursuit of this challenge, FranklinCovey has:

• Researched deep within the operations of hundreds of organisations to determine precisely why companies fail to execute
• Applied the best thinking of recognised experts and the data from extensive research
• Created a unique process that combines training, consulting, implementation, and tools into a powerful, proven solution

How Can FranklinCovey Help?

FranklinCovey's The 4 Disciplines of Execution Managers Certification certifies managers to lead a process that will enable their teams to achieve unprecedented results against their goals. By changing the way managers engage their teams, they can make dramatic improvements in the impact their teams will have on organisational performance.

This process includes four key steps, including:

• Identifying the two or three most critical, difference-making objectives
• Focusing relentlessly on the specific leading indicators of achievement of those objectives
• Creating compelling and visible scoreboards to track progress
• Instilling an ongoing, self-perpetuating cadence of accountability at the team and individual levels

Create a Culture of Performance

FranklinCovey's The 4 Disciplines of Execution Managers Certification will help managers reduce the inconsistency of individual behaviours by giving team members a process by which they can align their efforts with the most critical objectives of the organisation. As a result, managers will be able to lead their teams within a common framework of focus, measurement, and accountability.