Stop making plans that don’t deliver

Are your projects taking too long to reach their goals?

Do you have initiatives that aren’t making a difference to your company?

Are your people being active but not delivering results?

Then it’s time to change how you manage your execution.

Manage your execution better

Make an effective execution plan that helps people to know what to do.

Define your end state and how you will get there.

Pick the most important things that need to be done, and ask your best people to do those.

Drop the initiatives that aren’t important.

Make sure your team has the resources and the capabilities to do the job well.

Give your team members the focus, clarity and support that they need to get things done.

How I can help you improve your execution

I’ve seen many times how a lot of effort leads to too little result:

1. People don’t know what they’re trying to achieve, or
2. They don’t know what actions will lead to achieving their goals, or
3. They prefer to “just do anything” over taking time to plan.

We can work together in a collaborative process to:

• Clearly define your desired outcome
• Focus on the most important topics
• Create a tangible implementation plan
• Drive and manage the execution of the plan
• Support your team members to get it done

Keep the end in mind and stick with it until you get there.

The most important outcome is that people in your organisation do the things that matter.

Here’s an example

I was asked to help a mushroom substrate factory tackle the quality issues that were limiting their yield of sellable product. The quality issues were leading to dissatisfied customers and harming the reputation of the company in the market.

The team had been working for a number of months to find the causes using an iterative approach built on prior experience, supported by trial and error. Their progress was hampered by the many interdependent factors that affected the production process, which they weren’t able to separate.

I helped the team to create a structured root cause analysis of the factors affecting production, and focused their efforts on those that affected product quality. Together we grouped the factors into related clusters, and made sure to test one factor at a time. We also stopped testing factors that were unrelated to the quality issue.

With this approach, we were able to isolate some of the factors and create improvement actions to mitigate them. This enabled us to improve the yield of the product.

If you want to see more of my track record, look here.

What my clients say

If you want to read more client testimonials, look here.

Your turn to act

This situation won’t improve on its own. People will keep doing what they do until you make the change.

So, do you keep supporting activities with little results, or do you take action to make progress faster?

My suggestion: Contact me to discuss how we can improve your execution together.

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