THE PROBLEM
You've been treating the symptoms.
The culture surveys. The reorganizations. The engagement programs. The accountability pushes. The performance software that went quiet after a quarter. You've tried them because the problem feels like culture, alignment, engagement, accountability. It isn't. Those are symptoms. The root cause is one thing: strategy that never reached the individual.
73%
of strategic plans fail in execution, not in the planning room, but in the space between a good plan and what people actually do.
What organizations usually try
-Culture survey
-Reorganization
-Engagement Program
-Accountability Push
Why this doesn't work
The root cause is strategy that never reached the individual, so no one person ever decided to do the work.
THE HINGE
Because they're complying, not committing.
Most strategy reaches people as orders. Set at the top, cascaded down through the layers, handed to the individual as a mandate; something to comply with, not something they own. Compliance is the ceiling. It gets you the minimum. It never gets you execution.
"I helped design it. I understand it. I'm driving it."
Commitment sounds like this. You can’t order it into existence—you can only build the conditions for it.
Something to believe in
See exactly how execution is tracking, from company initiatives all the way down to individual goals.
Someone to believe in
See exactly how execution is tracking, from company initiatives all the way down to individual goals.
Someone who believes in them
See exactly how execution is tracking, from company initiatives all the way down to individual goals.
HOW IT WORKS
That's what the Performance Agreement is for.
KeyneLink puts the Performance Agreement at the center, which is the one place those three things get built by design. Every other system puts strategy at the center and pushes it down. We start with the individual and pull strategy in.
FOUNDATION DATA
What the organization stands for
Clarity on purpose, and on the one number it’s driving toward this year.
THE 201 PROCESS
Teams own the initiatives
Teams rewrite the company’s initiatives in their own language and link them upward. They own them; they don’t just receive them.
THE PERFORMANCE AGREEMENT
Each person co-creates their role
Built with their manager, tied straight to those initiatives. This is where commitment gets designed in.
PROGRESS MEETINGS
The monthly heartbeat
Conversations that cause clarity. Clarity that drives action. Action that produces results.
Initiative
Team
Goal
One person
A clean line of sight, from the top of the organization all the way down to a single person’s goal — and back up again.
Read “The Tale of Two $10 Millions”
“ Nothing in this organization’s strategy moves until an individual does something different. And that individual is you.
Wayne Nelsen, Founder & President, Keyne Insight
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