4 Ways to Increase Your Execution (and Career) Velocity by Deidre Paknad and Workboard Inc.

1. Ways to Increase
Your Execu1on
(and Career)
Velocity4

2. The formula for achieving goals is
straigh;orward: apply team, 1me and
budget to the specific work needed to
reach the right results

3. Very successful people achieve goals faster
and with fewer resources than peers.
Execu-on velocity is high, which
raises their career velocity.

4. Produc1vity means doing more every minute.
Velocity means achieving more.
ve • loc • i • ty
noun
The speed of something in a
given direc3on

5. When resources and
capacity are focused
on achieving goals, it
takes less to get from
point A to point B;
great business and
career results follow.

6. Capacity and resources are always
constrained, so aligning and
concentra1ng on goals are crucial.
Sustained alignment is hard, but losing
a day a week is a 20% capacity hit!

7. Without clear goals,
transparency and
goal-focused people,
even awesome teams
move the wrong
mountain.

8. Increase your velocity to goal
when you:
Know your Point B
Know your Point A
Align your Capacity
Make transparency the rule

9. 1. Know your point B
Do the hard work of defining
what and where success is.
Define what you want to
achieve, why it maVers and how
you will measure success.

10. Make Point B completely clear so
people make beVer decisions and
contribu1ons every day.
BeVer yet, they'll all work in the same
direc1on and know how they add value!

11. 2. Know your point A
Point B — the goal — shouldn’t
move much. But your Point A or
current state change constantly.
To define the ac1ons and
investments necessary to move
from Point A to goal, be rigorous
about opera1onal transparency.

12. Set your transparency threshold by
the cost of 1me — if losing five days
will undermine goal achievement,
then it’s too long to wait for
execu1on facts.

13. Decision velocity maVers, too.
Real-1me transparency maximizes
your ability to recover quickly.
Tell your team that you value facts (even
when they’re not happy facts) and why
they are essen1al.

14. 3. Concentrate Resources on Goal
Achievement
Your velocity to goal
is a func1on of how
much fric1on and
distrac1on there is
on your path from
point A to B.

15. Make sure your full
capacity is laser focused
on goal achievement.

16. Hold yourself and the team accountable
for where 1me and effort are spent —
these are your most valued assets.

17. Deciding what not to work on is hard
but necessary; use team mee1ngs to
rule out distrac1ons and lower priority
work so goals are achieved.

18. 4. Make Transparency a Constant
When goals and current facts are opaque,
the team’s capacity goes everywhere
except goal achievement.
They don’t know where they’re
headed or what status is now.

19. But don’t let repor1ng progress
compete with making progress.
Business velocity automa1on tools link goals
and ac1ons and automate transparency on
progress from point A to B.

20. It’s not more work, it’s just
more achievement.
Goal velocity = Career Velocity.

21. Raise your business velocity.
Clarify goals, align
teams, and execute
quickly for stellar
results.
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