Executing a plan is such a big part of leadership. It’s one thing to have a great strategy, but you have to have a way to execute it. You just can’t have a vision in your head without a strategy to move forward. It has to create real results that show you how you can get from Point A to Point B. That’s what leadership is.
There are ways you can lead that tap into how the brain is designed to work. If you have too many goals and too many plans, people are going to be confused. Once you clarify what you want to achieve, you can think about how the execution of your plan drives results.
Guest Links
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Links Mentioned in this Episode
podcast@dr.cloud.com
Boundaries for Leaders
The Power of the Other Stephen Covey
Jim Huling
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Takeaways from this Episode
1. Focus on the wildly important. Narrow the focus and define the finish line. There’s an immediate return when this principle is understood.
2. Create leverage around lead measures. Identify what’s predictive of goal outcome, but also look at what can be influenced by the team or individual.
3. Create a compelling scoreboard. You don’t have to call it a game, but it needs to feel like one.
4. Create a cadence of accountability. These are the weekly commitments that drive the lead measures.
Subscribe to The Leadership University Podcast
Every Tuesday we release an this podcast as an entertaining and informative way of sharing practical advice about the fundamental and most needed competencies that every leader must develop. Think of this podcast as an easy way to move a few steps further down the path to realizing your leadership goals.
Join Dr. Henry Cloud and an exciting new guest expert each week by subscribing to iTunes or checking us out on Sound Cloud.
Executing a Plan with Chris McChesney – #003 Lead U
Executing a plan is such a big part of leadership. It’s one thing to have a great strategy, but you have to have a way to execute it. You just can’t have a vision in your head without a strategy to move forward. It has to create real results that show you how you can get from Point A to Point B. That’s what leadership is.
There are ways you can lead that tap into how the brain is designed to work. If you have too many goals and too many plans, people are going to be confused. Once you clarify what you want to achieve, you can think about how the execution of your plan drives results.
Guest Links
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Links Mentioned in this Episode
podcast@dr.cloud.com
Boundaries for Leaders
The Power of the OtherStephen Covey
Jim Huling
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Takeaways from this Episode
1. Focus on the wildly important. Narrow the focus and define the finish line. There’s an immediate return when this principle is understood.
2. Create leverage around lead measures. Identify what’s predictive of goal outcome, but also look at what can be influenced by the team or individual.
3. Create a compelling scoreboard. You don’t have to call it a game, but it needs to feel like one.
4. Create a cadence of accountability. These are the weekly commitments that drive the lead measures.
Subscribe to The Leadership University Podcast
Every Tuesday we release an this podcast as an entertaining and informative way of sharing practical advice about the fundamental and most needed competencies that every leader must develop. Think of this podcast as an easy way to move a few steps further down the path to realizing your leadership goals.
Join Dr. Henry Cloud and an exciting new guest expert each week by subscribing to iTunes or checking us out on Sound Cloud.