Vision. Traction. Healthy?

Vision. Traction. Healthy. Those are EOS Worldwide’s three uniques. They’re what make EOS stand out; when you’re implementing EOS, you’re working on all three. Not just one or two.

But I want to zoom in on Healthy today, as it’s the least direct aspect of EOS implementation. You’ve heard me say it at the beginning of every session we’ve done together. My expectations for you fall into three buckets (see below for more details on these):

1. Open & Honest for the Greater Good
2. Run One Meeting
3. "Animal Rules"

Those expectations are key ingredients for Healthy and I hope you take those ideas with you as you run your team meetings and interact with your team members. They work outside of the office too, FYI. So that’s one place we address Healthy, though a bit indirectly.

Then, in our annual sessions, we address team health using the lens of Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, locking in on trust as a key ingredient of building Healthy. From there, we have a menu of trust-building tools to go through as a team and to take into the rest of the company. You should do a trust builder with your teams once per quarter. 

And that’s it; the baseline expectations of how we interact with one another + a regular rhythm to build trust. Healthy. But there’s another layer we don’t specifically address. It’s the part of Healthy inside your head.

This was the case for me personally; in my own business and EOS practice, I was the person holding it back. We were clear and aligned on our Vision. We had great Traction - teams were executing with discipline and accountability. Even then, I was perpetually disgruntled and disappointed we weren’t doing things perfectly. Not Healthy.

If this sounds familiar to you (maybe for yourself, maybe for a colleague), I have good news for you - it’s just normal. Everyone has their own internal saboteurs getting in the way of Healthy. You can’t get rid of them but you can quiet them. It works for me (not all the time, but most of the time!). How? I found an operating system for my brain in the book Positive Intelligence.

I want to share a copy with you. Fill out the form below and I’ll put a book in the mail. Simple. My only request? After you take the Saboteur Assessment you give me a call and we compare notes.

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Deeper Dive on Meeting Expectations

Open & Honest for the Greater Good

• Open: Listen like you have something more to learn. Approach your team with wisdom - you know a lot, but know there’s more you don’t know.
• Honest: Share your insight and opinion with kindness and authenticity.
• Greater good: Show up with genuine care and concern and in honor of every single word on the V/TO (from Core Values on down)

Run One Meeting

• No technology - whether or not you’re distracted, there’s a high likelihood your technology is distracting someone else.
• No sidebars - one conversation, one experience.
• Break together - when any one person needs a break, we take a break. In it together and always working on alignment, which is impossible without full participation.

"Animal Rules"

• No bullshit. See Open & Honest / Greater Good
• Don’t chase squirrels. Let’s talk about the important stuff and trust competent folks will handle the details after the meeting.
• Don’t beat a dead horse. Once the issue is identified, discuss & hear from everyone, and solve for the next step. Please stop talking now - we’ve figured it out.
• No sacred cows. When the answer to “Why” is “because we’ve always done it that way” it’s time to make a change.
• Address the elephant in the room. Sometimes the issue you see clearly is a blind spot for a colleague or team. Invite a conversation about the issue. Just do it with the greater good in mind.