The SECRET to EXECUTION

The secret to high performance and consistent execution is deceptively simple.

Performance in business, competitive or personal life absolutely DEPENDS on the execution and efficiency of the team.

Behaviorally, if the team can think and act in these terms:

+INDIVIDUAL SKILLS/CONTRIBUTION-toward focused team goals

+EFFECTIVE, FOCUSED and DISCIPLINED COMMUNICATIONS-keeping all aligned and pointed to team goals and the status of that pursuit

+SENSE OF URGENCY (but avoiding a sense of panic)-in achieving and encouraging achievement of team goals...

..the team will meet and exceed goals and expectations.

Of course there are many things that subset these major behavior areas, but that may be beyond the scope of this post.

Over the past 7 years, I have enjoyed the profound pleasure of working with high school athletes as the head coach of a varsity boys' lacrosse team. The way I see it, it is the responsibility of the coaches to ensure that they (the players, the team) develop as players, as athletes and as young men. Toward that end our coaching staff spends considerable time and energy in the three areas above. All of these areas are inter-dependent; the player and the team will be less than WHOLE without all three working in tandem, association or partnership.

All that said, what is this big secret?

The secret is, like the martial arts board-breaker, to look beyond the board. Develop your team to think, act and own in these three areas...train your players and team to speak this language and look toward their next, bigger and more life-oriented goals. In doing so, these team members will be able to consistently perform individually and as a team...eventually even without your direct input (ever read "A Message to Garcia"?...I can send it to you if you would like). They will be more prepared and better for it. In other words, your legacy is not built in deals, games or interventions won or lost, but in the people you help to break the code. Think, exhibit and teach these three behaviors and your charge will break the code.

Tell us YOUR , leadership, team or execution story...we'd like to hear it!

Keep the faith and Semper Fi,

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...DEBRIEFS or POST MORTEMS they call them in some lines of work. I think that last year I posted something here about debriefs. Yep, I did. But it bears saying again.

In the WEIGHT ROOM, growth of a muscle mass to Schwarzeneggerian proportions comes from the time-tested Joe Weider muscle development principles (like the Weider Muscle Confusion Principle and the Weider Cheating Lift Principle and the much celebrated Weider Eat a Half Gallon of Ice Cream Principle) of BREAK IT DOWN [exercise it, work it out], FEED IT [nutrition, good stuff...protein and what not] and REST IT [give it some nap time...we grow when we sleep]. It is a continuum.

In the SQUADRON spaces, we have FIVE principles of GROWTH (what we might call continuous improvement, safety, operational excellence, lots of names)...sort of OODA Loop-ish. We PREPARE for our mission (which means plan for it, usually using a principle called the MORE THAN TWO EYES PRINCIPLE), we BRIEF IT (so we are all on the same songsheet...easily done if the multiple sets of eyes that planned are also going to DO IT), we DO IT (execute it, per the plan, or at least we start like that), we DEBRIEF IT (post mortem...systematically break down the mission, from order issuance to debrief) and then and most critical, we SHARE IT with those who may benefit from our lessons learned.

A couple of weeks ago we (BizBatt) conducted a 2-day multi-exercise training event with a group of young and newly appointed leaders from an international bank. This was our third straight year providing this LTE (leadership, teamwork and execution) workshop for this class. Every year the program has gotten better. I am convinced that even though we bring in new BizBatt personnel every year, we improve because of our lessons learned system (BizBatt Lessons Learned System...BBLLS) and our culture that encourages us to seek out the "what worked, what did not, and how can we be better this time?" mentality. I am certain that next year will be even better and I cannot wait.

This was a really LONG way of saying that

AARs work, but only if you share them. DO.

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Welcome Back! It has been a while.

Here is a link that I sent to one of our BizBatt customers:

Click here for a couple of quick audio stories.

It will open to a webpage where their participants (it'll work for you too) will be able to click right into and activate an audio player. It is a couple of stories that we meant to relay to them, but ran out of time. It is abt 10 min long, I believe. Nothing too sexy, just me and my buddy discussing those two stories. Very informal. Check it out if you have a few mikes.

More of this audio stuff to come.

sf,

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