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MANAGERS KIT: Goal Engagement & Great Execu1on

Managers Tool Kit: How to Set Good Goals and Engage Your Team in Great Execution

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This tool kit takes the anxiety and mystery out of setting and achieving goals! It provides a template to guide you through setting goals, defining metrics for them, breaking goals down into actions to achieve them, engaging and motivating your team, and tracking progress along the way. It's easy to use and has everything you need to rally the team!

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MANAGERS KIT: Goal  Engagement  &  Great  Execu1on  

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LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY

1. Source:  Metrus  Group  survey  2. Source:  Gallup  survey  

People  with  clear,  wri/en  goals  accomplish  far  more  in  a  shorter  period  of  6me  than  people  without  them  could  ever  imagine.                                            –  Brian  Tracy      

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ENGAGE  YOUR  TEAM  IN  GREAT  EXECUTION          

This  kit  provides  a  management  model  for  goal  engagement  and  great  execu?on.        To  make  the  most  of  the  kit:    1.  First,  view  this  kit  in  full-­‐screen  mode  to  

get  the  whole  picture.  

2.  Use  the  placeholders  to  deepen  your  thinking  on  goals,  metrics,  mo?va?on  and  work  plans.    

3.  Extract  pages  and  tailor  them  to  communicate  your  model  to  your  team  at  a  staff  mee?ng.        

4.  Expect  it  to  take  4  weeks  for  new  habits  to  form  as  you  work  the  model.  

If  you  don’t  have  or  haven’t  communicated  clear  goals,  there’s  no  ?me  like  the  present  to  start!    

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Set & Communicate Goals

Sample  Goal:  

Iden?fy  2-­‐3  strategic  goals  for  the  quarter.      Use  aspira?onal  language  to  help  the  team  get  passionate  about  achievement.    Ensure  each  team  member  understands  the  purpose  of  their  work  and  the  results  you’re  trying  to  achieve.      (All  the  work  your  team  does  should  align  to  achieving  these  goals.)  

   1.      2.      3.      4.      5.  

1.   Deliver  beMer  content  to  our  users  to  increase  ad  sales  opportuni1es  

2.   Delight  customers      

Our  Goals:  

“Predic1ng  rain  doesn’t  count,  building  arks  does.”  

     —  Warren  BuffeT  

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Define Metrics for Success

Sample  Metrics:  Increase  page  views  to  enable  higher  ad  sales  

 40%  Increase  in  Page  Views  by  Year    End  

Delight  customers  

 100  Referrals  by  March  30  

Define  a  metric  that  will  be  used  to  assess  success  and  when  it  should  be  achieved.      Communicate  the  metrics  to  the  team  so  they  understand  how  success  will  be  measured  and  the  value  of  the  work.    Keep  the  metrics  visible  to  reduce  diversions  by  less  valuable  work.      

     

“You  can  spend  your  life  running  up  and  down  the  field  and  never  score.”  

       —  Bill  Copeland  

Our  Key  Metrics:  

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Plan & Delegate Work Organize  for  execu?on  and  accountability.    Define  the  streams  of  work  required  and  team  members  involved.        Workstreams  are  a  way  to  group  and  monitor  related  effort  (or  the  recurring  func?onal  ac?vi?es  of  your  teams).          

Sample  Workstreams  •  Content  Development  

•  Page  &  Site  Design  •  Customer  Engagement  

•  User  Experience  Design      

 1.  

2.  

3.  

4.  

5.  6.  

7.  

“Plan  with  audacity,  execute  with  rigor.”            –  Chris?an  Bovee  

Our  workstreams:  

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Distribute & Do The Work

Sample  Ac1on  Items  •  Refresh  the  blog  page  layout  with  new  style  guide  by  Friday  (Mary)  

•  Publish  2  third-­‐party  ar1cles  by  Thursday  (Satya)    

•  Conduct  customer  survey  by  February  20  (Brian)  

   

“The  ul1mate  inspira1on  is  the  deadline.”          —  Nolan  Bushnell  

Define  and  distribute  the  primary  ac?on  items  in  weekly  work  plans  with  due  dates  and  owners.    Minimize  burden  and  maximize  goal  achievement  by  assigning  significant  ac?ons  with  precise  outcomes  and  let  the  team  flesh  out  the  details.      Use  weekly  staff  mee?ngs  to  communicate  the  week’s  plans  and  hold  people  accountable  for  prior  week  outcomes.              

Iden1fy  the  top  5-­‐10  deliverables  needed  in  the  next  two  weeks  to  achieve  your  goals        

Our  Primary  Ac1on  Items:  

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Motivate People Help  your  team  relate  their  work  to  the  goals  and  recognize  progress.    Foster  purpose  and  passion  week  a_er  week  by  staying  on  the  plan  yourself.          Provide  support  and  feedback  as  work  progresses  –  be  generous  with  “aTaboys”.              

“The  road  to  success  is  always  under  construc1on.”    

       ―  Lily  Tomlin  

Use  1on1s  to  reiterate  and  reinvigorate  goals,  check  progress  and  remove  obstacles.            Ask  what  mo1vates  people;  incorporate  it  in  engagement.  

   Capture  what  mo1vates  each  staff  member          Iden1fy  what  engagement  change  you’ll  incorporate  to  improve  execu1on  velocity:      

Engaging  my  staff:  

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Track Status of Key Deliverables

Sample  Status  Refresh  the  blog  page  layout  with  new  style  guide  by  Friday  –  DONE  (Mary)  

Publish  2  third-­‐party  ar1cles  by  Thursday  –  DOING  late  because  Acme  doesn’t  have  pub  approval  (Satya)  

Redesign  landing  page  by  Tuesday  –  NEXT,  HI  PRIORITY  (Maurice)  

Ask  for  weekly  status  on  results  and  for  each  primary  ac?on  and  deliverable;  use  red/green  light  indicators  to  beTer  predict  and  prevent  execu?on  issues.          Use  your  staff  mee?ngs  to  remove  roadblocks  and  plan  next  week’s  work  rather  than  recoun?ng  last  week’s  status.            

       Were  ac1on  items  expected  delivered?    What  red  flags  arose  and  why?    What  is  the  resolu1on  path  for  them?      What  ac1ons  carry  over  to  the  following  week?    Which  ac1ons  should  be  deferred  or  skipped?  

“Don’t  expect  what  you  don’t  inspect.”                        —  Clement  Stone  

Facts  to  have  before  staff  mee1ngs:  

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Measure Results Measure  results  against  the  goal  and  metrics  you’ve  defined.      Determine  who  should  provide  the  data  points  on  the  key  metric  for  each  goal;  ask  them  to  provide  it  in  their  report.          When  you  get  great  results,  give  great  feedback;  don’t  hesitate  to  provide  fact-­‐based,  unemo?onal  feedback  where  improvements  are  needed.                  

       What  will  you  communicate  upline  as  progress  against  the  organiza1on’s  goals?      What  level  deliverable?    What  type  of  red  flags?    What  metrics?        

“What's  measured  improves.”        —  Peter  Drucker  

Results  you  report:    

0  

10  

20  

30  

40  

50  

60  

70  

80  

Week  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8  

Referrals  against  Goal  of  100  by  March  30  

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Pivot Quickly Respond  to  changing  compe??ve,  market,  resource  and  organiza?on  condi?ons  by  redirec?ng  efforts,  changing  goals,  and  re-­‐planning  work.          

When  overall  goals  change,  pull  the  team  together  to  communicate  which  facts  and  circumstances  changed,  the  root  cause,  and  changes  in  plan  of  ac?on.  

“Change  is  inevitable,  progress  is  not.”  —  Max  McKeown    

Develop  a  checklist  for  socializing  and  execu1ng  the  pivot:    What  facts  and  decisions  are  needed  upline  to  get  support?    Have  you  re-­‐set  the  team  and  provided  logic  for  the  shil  so  they  move  seamlessly  forward?    What  are  the  new  goals  and  metrics  and  have  you  re-­‐set  the  work  plans?      

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The Ask from the Team

Do  weekly  reports  directly  from  your  list.  Include  ac?on  items  you’ve  done,  are  doing  and  plan  to  do  next.      Provide  comments  on  red  flag  and  late  items.    

GOALS     ACTIONS     STATUS   RESULTS    

Make  sure  you  know  the  goals  so  you’re  contribu?ng  to  and  enjoy  success!    

Track  your  primary  ac1on  items  and  deliverables;  update  your  deliverable  list  a_er  our  staff  mee?ngs  

Update  ac1on  item  status  as  it  changes  and  indicate  red  flags;  see  and  comment  on  peer  status.  

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Achieve Your Q3 Goals

Workboard  can  help  you  align  your  team’s  efforts  to  your  top  ini?a?ves  and  close  the  “agreed-­‐to-­‐achieved”  loop.  

Show  Me  How!