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Hi Carolyn,
What are the outcomes your team needs to achieve, that will drive the highest value for your business or your customer, this quarter?
Aligning your team around an outcome mindset invites us to shift from busy output/to-do lists to thinking strategically. Outcome thinking forces us to define what is most important, what will bring the most value, and what is critical to alignment. Clarity and alignment are major contributors to high-performing teams.
When you’re establishing your new priorities, objectives, and outcomes, consider a few of the following questions:
- What are our highest priorities?
- What outcomes will drive the biggest punch for our organization?
- What does DONE look like?
- What does good look like, what does great look like?
- What might get in the way of our success?
Not only do reflection, collaboration, and planning achieve clarity and alignment, they can act as a super booster toward key results. Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers state in their book 'Presence' that “…when people begin to see from within the forces that shape their reality and to see their part in how those forces might evolve does vision become powerful.”
Taking the time to define and align your team is time well spent. When teams slow down to reflect and collaborate strategically they are much more effective at prioritizing the important work over the urgent work.
When outcomes aren’t clearly defined, this creates busy work that contributes to burnout and to poor results. The plan-do-review cycle breaks down and everything becomes important, everything becomes an "opportunity we can’t miss out on." We move into constant doing and reacting.
Do yourself and your teams a favour: time block your next review/reset meeting today. Schedule ample time to have important collaborative conversations that drive clarity around the outcomes of your biggest value drivers. Remember my favourite saying…” go slow to go fast.” We know this concept is especially hard for some of you fast-moving leaders. You won't regret it when you see a supercharged workforce working creatively and winning month after month!
All the best!
Carolyn
  
PLEASE NOTE: DATE CHANGE!
Weds, May 17th @ 12 pm Pacific
COMPLIMENTARY WEBINAR:
Being an Employer of Choice - The Other Half of the Story
Over the last 3 years, we saw a once-in-a-generation change in the employer-employee relationship. Much attention has been given to the employee experience in terms of work-life balance, shorter work weeks, and higher pay.
Given similar benefits across companies, what would keep your best employees from jumping ship?
Most people show up to work each day with the desire to make a positive impact and bring value. What gets in the way?
Clear strategic goals and ruthless prioritization are often overlooked as elements of a positive employee experience. A symptom of an over-stretched organization is the impression that teams are unresponsive and inefficient.
OKRS (Objectives and Key Results) is a simple and effective method to clarify strategic priorities, align teams on the highest priorities, and have visible measures of success across the organization.
In this webinar, Carolyn De Voest and Mélanie St-James will engage in a conversation about developing a durable and high-performing employee-centric organization through strategy execution and culture.
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