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Six Disciplines Execution Revolution #1

Sean Burke — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:00:19 +0000

Execution Revolution is now #1 on the Wall Street Journal’s Business Best Sellers Book List.

It is also #1 on Amazon’s Business Best Sellers List.

I have a few copies for those of you who want one…just send me an email.

Quarterly Ratings Process (Execution, 6 of 6)

Sean Burke — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:15:35 +0000

Today we will be discussing the quarterly ratings process. Reviewing employee’s accomplishments is an important part of maintaining alignment and accountability – unfortunately though – so many managers and leaders struggle to keep up with this. We will share with you how to simplify this process.

The Goals of today’s cast is to share with you:

The steps that need to be taken to complete a quarterly review
The review agenda
The role of the team member and team leader
Why this is an important part of leadership and coaching
How to keep it simple
How to increase learning on each team members professional development needs
The value of this process
What can leaders do today to begin this process

Weekly Status Reports (Execution, 5 of 6)

Sean Burke — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:47:40 +0000

Today we will be discussing the weekly status report. Status reports are a the most important activity in driving execution so if you do only one thing – this is it!

The Goals of today’s cast are to share with you:

The goals of a weekly status report
Why they should be held weekly
How the meetings should be organized
How to incorporate coaching in these sessions to drive individual leadership and accountability
Why these should be the first thing you put on your weekly calendar

Enjoy!

To download the Weekly Status Reports Template – click here

Estimating your time (Execution, 4 of 6)

Sean Burke — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:30:10 +0000

In this cast we discuss estimating the time it takes to complete your deliverables. From our previous casts on this subject, we outlined the importance of determining deliverables for your team – now we are going to look at how and why you should take the next step – and that is estimating and tracking deliverable time.

The Goals of today’s cast are to share with you:

The importance on estimating deliverable time
The importance of measuring deliverable time
How this process can greatly impact your ability to execute
Steps that you can take today to start estimating and tracking your deliverable time
Making sure that the priority of deliverables are clear

Dependencies (Execution, 3 of 6)

Sean Burke — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:43:32 +0000

Today we will be discussing the importance of documenting dependencies to help increase execution.

The Goals of today’s cast are to share with you:

An explanation of just exactly what dependencies are
Why identifying them is so important
The impact they can play on goal obtainment
The impact they have on the entire business
How to start measuring your dependencies execution
The steps you can take today to incorporate the identification and measurement of dependencies in your business

Execution Revolution

Sean Burke — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:19:42 +0000

In a few months, Execution Revolution, will hit the shelves. This is the new book from Gary Harpst, founder of Six Disciplines (disclosure – for those of you who don’t know, I am the President of Six Disciplines Tampa – we help companies hit their goals more consistently).

The early buzz is that this book will be a hit. Ads are already up in the print editions of Fast Company, Inc. Magazine. There maybe more that I haven’t seen yet too.

We will be giving our readers the chance to win the book on our site, but if you want to get a preview, here is where you can learn more about it on Amazon.com.

Please share a comment on this post or send me an email and I will try to hook you up when we get them.

Deliverables vs. Actions (Execution, 2 of 6)

Sean Burke — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:13:32 +0000

This episode reviews the differences of Deliverables vs. Actions. Many companies measure the activities of their team – and while that is good – it only tells what people are doing. It gives no insight on their quantifiable results.

The Goals of today’s cast are to share with you:

the difference between actions and deliverables
Why deliverables give you a better measurement
Where to use deliverables within your company
What steps you can take today to create and use them in your business

Creating Deliverables (Execution 1 of 6)

Sean Burke — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:35:26 +0000

Our next six casts are devoted to the subject of execution – each cast builds on the previous one – so you will want to listen to them in order.

In this cast, Sean and Jeff discuss creating deliverables as an important component to driving organizational execution. Having well crafted individual deliverables that link to your company’s goals is one piece of creating an organization that holds itself accountable for attaining results.

The Goals of this cast are to share with you:

What deliverables are and how they link to goals
How to write deliverables
The importance of having them
The steps you can take today to start using deliverables in your business

Enjoy!