How to Discover Top 5 Priorities to lead your Business from Good to Great?

How to Discover Top 5 Priorities to lead your Business from Good to Great and Top 1 of 5?

Top 5 Priorities are your 20% that will give you 80% outcomes, supporting you to Do Less to Create Massive (DLCM) positive impact.

Top 5 Priorities not being clearly articulated and not known by all our team members all the way to our people on the frontline is a clear sign that the business is not on the good to great journey. It is about survival and everyone is fire-fighting to travel from bad to good. Symptoms of a business on a bad to good journey are that there is stress, team members are working on the weekends, reaching home late with work consuming most of their time; leaving very little time for raising happy, confident, healthy kids, nurturing their relationship with spouse, parents and siblings, and nourishing good health and joyous well-being.

The business will stay on the bad to good journey and dance to the tune of mediocrity if, in every Annual Planning Meeting, time is not invested in co-discovering Top 5 Annual Priorities in alignment with your 3HAG (3 Years Highly Achievable Goal), BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) and Top 1 of 5; and if, in every Quarterly Planning Meeting, time is not invested in co-discovering Top 5 Quarterly Priorities in alignment with your 1HAG (1 Year Highly Achievable Goal) and Top 1 of 5.

Yes, co-discovering. Building a great business is a team sport, and the CEO and leadership team members are equal players, co-leading their business from good to great. Therefore, Top 5 Priorities are not imposed by the CEO but co-discovered.

The CEO is really the Chief Enrolment Officer — enrolling their team, their customers, their business partners, their investors, and their family (if it's a family business) to be on the good to great journey.

Shannon Susko has designed a beautiful step-by-step process for the CEO and the leadership team members to co-discover their Top 5 and their Top 1 of 5 to co-own their shared good to great journey, and strengthen not only the Aligned Execution System of the Business Good to Great Framework but also turn the dial on the Cohesive Team System, Nurturing Culture System, Winning Strategy System and Healthy Cashflow System.

Through the process explained in the above presentation, your coach will support you and your leadership team to co-discover your Business Top 5 Annual Priorities, Business Top 5 Quarterly Priorities, and based on these — the Individual Top 5 Quarterly Priorities for each member of your leadership team and you, through your Annual and Quarterly Planning meetings.

Download the following template on a shared Google Drive with access to your leadership team, your coach and to me, so that all of us stay aligned — enabling you and your leadership team to co-lead your business from good to great with greater ease, grace and velocity.

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Once the L1 Leadership Team has their Individual Top 5 Quarterly Priorities clearly defined, each leader will work with their respective teams to ensure every member of their team also has their Top 5 Quarterly Priorities defined.

The L1 team will use the One-Page Strategic Plan template to document their priorities. From L2 onwards, team members will use the Vision Summary — a simpler and equally powerful template to capture their priorities.

In steady state, each team member will have their Top 5 Quarterly Priorities clearly defined, with a clear line of sight to the QHAG, 1HAG, 3HAG, BHAG and the shared Purpose — creating a sports team culture playing to win the World Cup in the Olympics of Business.

Let's keep learning, implementing and massively contributing to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.

Loving you,
​j.