Align your business Purpose, Goals and Activities to drive your success

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Align your business Purpose, goals and activities to drive your success

Summary:

In this episode Phil Rose talks Eugene Terk. Eugene is VP Business Development and General Counsel for Align – creator of the Scaling Up Scoreboard Software. His role is to find, foster and nurture strategic partnerships with coaches, consultants and implementers of processes that help businesses scale. Align was created in 2012 to help implement the core processes of Scaling Up in the business and is now available as the Scaling Up Scoreboard.

(Some of) The main points for listeners:

• Align people to your purpose to best engage them

• Identify your core purpose – aligning companies and their people to their journey to success (the purpose of Align)

• How aligned is your product to your purpose?

• Use the Scaling Up tool kit to help you create your alignment

• Do your team know how they contribute to the success and bigger picture of your business

• What do you do ‘on paper’ that you can make more efficient?

• How do you help yourself think more strategically – and then capture it for all to see and act on?

• What tools do you use to ensure goals and actions ‘flow down’ to all the team so they know what they are accountable for?

• What communication rhythms do you run in your business?

• Accountability helps your identify issues at an individual level so you can best support the team

• What does your scoreboard look like? How do you know where you are?

• Why use quarterly objectives? What course corrections do you need to make to bring you back on track?

• What are your key (2-3) measures in your business? Do you know the value of that measure today? If not, what needs to change?

• Source and outcome measures – what are you focussed on?

• E.g. To increase revenue by 20% what do you need to do?

• Talk frequently about and measure your top priorities

• What tools do you have that enable you to work on the business? (compared with working IN the business)

• Where are you Checking IN rather than checking UP on people?

• Do you (or your team) hide behind your excuses for not hitting your goals? What are you tracking and what’s the psychological impact of goal tracking?

• How much time are you spending strategically vs operationally? How can you elevate yourself, if you run the business, to do more strategic work.

• What goals do you set yourself? Write it down, measure it, track it… do it!

• Work with a coach to drive and support your success… 😊

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Connect with Eugene on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugene-terk-8014225/

Learn more about Scaling Up Scoreboard: https://scalingup.com/software/

Learn more about Align: www.aligntoday.com

Learn more about the Scaling Up toolkit - https://scalingup.com/growth-tools/

Books Referenced in this episode:

Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth, John Doerr: https://amzn.to/3mR23qY

Scaling Up How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), Verne Harnish: https://amzn.to/3MTSrGC

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, Michael E. Gerber - https://amzn.to/3Hqp3Xc

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Keywords in this episode:

Align, Purpose, Scaling Up, Scale, Entrepreneur, Success, Scoreboard, Rocks, Measurement, Purpose Driven, Processes, context, Verne Harnish