Clear Focus and Visible Success

There are some practical, no-fluff things every CEO can do to fuel motivation and engagement. They don’t get much hype because they can’t be trademarked.

Harvard’s director of research and a coauthor combed through 12,000 person-days of work to find it. The research spanned hundreds of people and dozens of companies.

The data pointed to one thing motivating people above all else. That one thing inspired deeper engagement, more resilience, and more creativity. It was also discovered that managers and leaders had no idea what it was.

Here’s the one thing: it’s making real progress on meaningful work that matters to the company, coworkers, and customers.

It makes sense, but leaders had no sense of how important it was or how to create it.

Unfortunately, we’ve all seen this super-motivator get buried in the noise of “old ways” of process jargon, software mazes, and hype.

So this month, we strike some blows for real-world meaning.

1. The ResultMaps 1-page vision and strategy views
   These updates make it simple to use proven frameworks to convey vision and strategy in a way that means something to people. It plugs right in to our Weekly One-Hour Workshop dashboard.

2. Own a number
   Individual numbers on a team scoreboard can be owned by an individual or role.

If you'd like to see exactly how these fit together in a framework that takes your team 90-seconds a day (15 minutes per month), reach out for a free strategy session to learn how these updates can apply directly to your teams.

Accelerator: Keep the strategy story and progress front-and-center

Create the right sense of urgency in the right places on your teams by reflecting status in color.

That means you and everyone can see progress or friction instantly. And you keep your team locked in to what’s most important and how it fits. As the authors of the Progress Principle discovered, that really means more motivated, more engaged, and more inspired teams. Simple. Track your goal progress using the ResultMaps Weekly 1-hour Workshop (WOW).

Learn more about the research and science behind some of our most popular features in our Rethinking Execution interview series:

TK Kader

Founder/CEO of Unstoppable

In our interview with TK Kader, he discussed how his teams at ToutApp and then Marketo were able to scale to the next level. One key to success: a weekly meeting to review their goal progress with simple “red, green, yellow” measurements.

Accelerator: Tie daily progress to results

ResultMaps creates individual ownership of specific numbers on your team scoreboard. This answers what Harvard proved to be our biggest need at work: What critical goal did I support? How does my work matter?

That focuses your team on the real outcomes you need without distractions. Which translates to hitting your numbers faster + happier employees.

Learn how to assign metrics to your teammates.

Learn more about the research and science behind some of our most popular features in our Rethinking Execution interview series:

Will Bunker

Co-founder OneAndOnly.com/Match.com

In our interview with Will, he discussed the power of giving people specific numbers to own. That’s why his teams created data dashboards for their team.

Learn more about what’s new at www.resultmaps.com/latest

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