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Getting Your Business out of Your Head and into Existence

The success of a company depends on the entire organization agreeing to act and operate cohesively. You can accomplish this with written agreements that document the steps to execute them over and over.

Do you remember driving to your office this morning? Sure, you can recall getting into the car. You probably even know what time you pulled into the parking space because you checked your watch or mobile device. I’m talking about all the stuff that happened in between.

We don’t have to put forth the mental capacity that would cause us to remember all the details of our morning commute because we’ve transformed it into a process. We’ve systemized the action to the point where driving to work is pretty much effortless. The EOS method calls this approach the “secret ingredient in your organization.” Here’s how I interpret process as it pertains to EOS, and how you can use it to help your leadership team become more productive.

Roadmap

We often hear people attribute their success or proficiency because of a “system” they have in place. Imagine how successful your business could be if everything about it ran on a series of systems, where each step of the core processes was documented. Someone brand new could step in and run an area of operations based on this roadmap. Indeed, your entire organization is on the same page. You have consistency—and it’s easy to scale when it’s time to grow.

That’s the magic of establishing a process within your organization—, especially at the leadership level. Key to process success is keeping track during execution. There’s no guessing what to do next, and what’s next is based on past experience.

When you proactively manage operations with these roadmaps you can:

  • Eliminate flaws
  • Reduce the time spent on tasks
  • Decrease your costs
  • Reduce the resources associated with tasks
  • Improve your operational efficiency
  • Increase your overall quality
  • Contribute to customer and employee satisfaction

These process roadmaps are not static. Your leadership team’s goal should be to learn from process implementation, so they can adjust the strategy and make improvements if following the procedures laid out in the process don’t have the intended results.

Processes help an entire organization spend less time on decision-making and more time on execution. While it focuses on action, these documented processes also help others to adopt behavior and attitudes that are aligned with the organization’s purpose.

Each process is an operational subroutine, providing context to the entire organization and allowing everyone to see how each project fits into the big picture, as well as what its impact is. And knowing impact is important because data is how a leadership team determines operational progress.

Who has time?

You’d probably try to find a way to ignore me if I were to ask you to document the process of getting to work. You know how to do it, and you’re the one who does it. Why would you need to consume the time for process documentation?

That’s a fair question when you consider things that usually only apply to yourself. But, what if you woke up tomorrow and found yourself unable to drive to the office? It may not be a perfect analogy, but let’s follow it for a while.

If you had documentation of this established procedure, it could be accomplished by just about anybody capable of driving your car. You know from the hundreds or even thousands of times you’ve made the drive yourself that the documentation will result in a successful arrival at the office. Your designated driver can focus on executing the responsibility.

Of course, when it applies to your business, it would be unreasonable to expect 100% of the process to be documented. Instead, you should focus on documenting the core 20% of the process and make sure that it is followed by all.

Checklists become an incredibly powerful tool in simplifying the process of execution. You can turn your documented process into a checklist to ensure that every member of your team has a clear understanding of the tasks at hand, as well as a simple way to measure progress.

That’s the main idea behind your leadership team adopting a process-based approach to operations. It’s business by design. Your organization doesn’t react to issues, it responds to them.

You have a vision or mission statement. Every member of your organization can read it, decide if their actions align with it, and make changes for further alignment. Your leadership team has determined the specific data points that will be used to generate an objective view of the organization’s operational health.

These—as much of the EOS method—require committing to specific agreements. Written agreements that document the steps to execute them over and over. How much of your business is in your head, instead of sharable procedures in the hands of your employees?

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