4DX Keynote 5.07.13

Back by popular demand, Chris McChesney, FranklinCovey’s Global Execution Practice Leader and best-selling author of The 4Disciplines of Execution, is coming to DFW (Embassy Suites - Frisco) for an Execution Keynote with area leaders on the morning of May 7^th.

Executing a strategy that requires a change in human behavior is probably THE biggest challenge a leader will face.  FranklinCovey has developed a proven leadership process known as 4DX, designed to help leaders execute behaviorchange strategy.  After 10 years of helping over a thousand intact teams execute key strategic goals, this process has now become a best-selling book and is the fastest growing practice at FranklinCovey today.

Make sure you don’t miss this keynote event as we expect it to sell out!  Click on the links below to learn more about The 4 Disciplines of Execution.

4DX Overview Videowith Chris McChesney

INTROTO THE BOOK

 

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The Power of Small Wins

Last week I attended two sessions with approximately 240 leaders between DFW and OK on the topic of our newest best-seller, The 4 Disciplines of Execution.  Our global Execution Practice Leader and the main contributing author, Chris McChesney, delivered a great keynote.

One thing that stood out to me and many of our guests was the thought that increasing Employee Engagement can be accomplished by giving your front line contributors a “winnable game.”  Chris explained that the “day job” (aka: Whirlwind) will never be beaten.  You can give the whirlwind 40 hours, 50 hours or more and even your weekends, and it will take all you can give it and not really give you anything in return.

But, in addition to the whirlwind, if leaders will give employees ONE THING related to behavior change strategy to focus on each week, you can engage employees like never before.  Chris also quoted an  article from HBR in May 2011 titled, The Power of Small Wins by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer, “Of all the things that can boost emotions, motivation, and perceptions during a workday, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work.”  Read the fullarticle here.

“If you are a manager, the progress principle holds clear implications for where to focus your efforts. It suggests that you have more influence than you may realize over employees’ well-being, motivation, and creative output. Knowing what serves to catalyze and nourish progress—and what does the opposite—turns out to be the key to effectively managing people and their work.”

 

For more details on executing strategy, consider picking up a copy of The 4 Disciplines of Execution.  You’ll be glad you did!

Creating wins for organizations one team at a time,

John Vakidis

 

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Solving the Execution Challenge

A little over a decade ago, our CEO, Bob Whitman, was meeting with his executive coach, Ram Charan.  They had a conversation that went something like this…

Bob: “Ram, what do you think is the next big thing for FranklinCovey?” 

Ram: “Bob, the biggest challenge of the 21^st century is no doubt going to be execution!  If FranklinCovey can boil execution down to a few basic principles like you did for 7 Habits with individual effectiveness, you’ll hit the mark.”

So after a ton of money and research, we confirmed what Ram had to say.  Over the last decade by working with nearly a thousand implementations, our Global Execution Practice Leader and his consultant team has perfected a management process for executing strategy, known as, The 4 Disciplines of Execution. 

Clickhere to watch a 16-minute introductory video narrated by Chris McChesney.

Chris not only leads our Execution Practice across the world, but he also is a best-selling author.  His new book, The 4 Disciplines of Execution is flying off shelves.  It has become a best-seller with the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and has received a ton of praise in the business community. 

Downloadan introduction to the book here.

If you have never heard Chris speak on the subject of Strategic Goal Execution, you’re missing out.  Chris is probably one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet on the subject and he is a funny and dynamic speaker.  You can go purchase Chris’s book at the book store for $28 or you can join other leaders in your area for one of his book tour-keynote events this year ($29 each for groups of 5 or more / $49 for individuals).

 

If you would be interested in letting FranklinCovey help you solve your execution challenge, let’s talk!  We are helping organizations achieve amazing results like these and I am 100% CONFIDENT we can enable your organization to execute bettwe and increase your employee engagement through the process.

Giving organizations the competitive advantage,

John Vakidis

Execution 101

If Strategic Goal Execution was only as easy as the diagram above!  Michael Mink with Investors.com recently wrote an article titled, Execute Company Objectives By Nurturing Accountability.  The author quotes Sean Covey, Chris McChesney and Jim Huling from their new book The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Make Your Most Wildly Important Goals Happen.  Their book will be released in just a few short weeks!

Michael goes on to write about tips every leader should consider: Prioritize, Act, Fuel the Fire, Create Accountability, Evaluate, Enable, Energize.

At FranklinCovey, we have boiled down execution into 4 key steps that we like to call, The 4 Disciplines. 

They are:

·         Focus on the Wildly Important

·         Act on the Lead Measures

·         Keep a Compelling Scoreboard

·         Create a Cadence of Accountability

Once organizations “install” The 4 Disciplines of Execution through our Manager’s Certification Process, they typically outperform the initial goals set in place.  Goals that have never been achieved can be achieved in months.  This transformation happens, simply because organizations are now able to get their middle performers to behave like their top performers.  In many cases, it is a 4X improvement, which has a dramatic impact towards the bottom line!

Watch this video below and allow Chris McChesney, our Global Execution Practice Leader, to provide you with more information.

 

Be sure to follow me on Twitter so you’ll know when the book is released.  I am positive it will be one of the best-selling business books this year!

All the best!

John Vakidis