The 5 dimensions of execution skills are clarity, charisma, judgment, synergy and attention.

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5 Dimensions of Execution Skills
The quality of our Vision, Strategies & Planning can be only measured after execution.
Without doubt, ability to ‘Make things happen’ can make or break our professional &
personal dreams.
Senior Executives such as Functional Heads, Sales Heads, ‘Special Projects’ leads,
Delivery Managers, Sales Heads – all of them have to translate plans on paper to
reality. In doing so, they face several hurdles such as inappropriate resourcing, poor
planning, insufficient time on hand, lack of control, stakeholder buy-in, cultural &
behavioral issues, etc.,
The 5 dimensions that can enable execution qualities are as follows:
 Clarity - Be it transactional activity or a long term goal, without clarity on how to
execute, one will never be successful. It involves setting goals and creating a
clear focus on the path for execution. Visual thinking plays a very critical role in
bringing clarity. Clarity also means good scoping, fixing accountability,
determining drivers of results and seamless planning.
 Charisma - Personality or Charisma plays a very critical role in successful
execution. Initiative, drive, clarity in communication, energizing the team,
questioning, listening skills & escalating skills, emotional quotient, good self-
balance, flexibility and more importantly being insightful of one’s own mistakes
are the recipe for execution oriented personality.
 Judgment (Facts + Experience) - Successful administrators exercise the knack
of sound judgement. Sound judgement can cut down delays, reduce failure rate
and have millions of dollars. Often perceived as an art, it’s a combination of facts

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and experience. This coaching will help in mastering appropriate tools & methods
to extract necessary facts and leverage one’s past experience to exercise sound
judgment.
 Synergy - Execution is all about synergy – the art of connecting, influencing,
facilitating, partnering and collaborating with others. Be it team members, peers,
other departments, vendors, customers or other stakeholders. It often involves
gaining the upper hand in every aspect of the company including political
hurdles.
 Attention - Attention means constantly overseeing, monitoring, fine-tuning,
correcting course, coaching, following-up, etc., Attentive leader will neither micro
manage or macro manage.
For each of the above dimensions, we prescribe specific tools and methods to
enhance Execution skills.
About the Author:
Neil started Canopus Business Management Group in 2009.
He helps a range of large enterprises in services and manufacturing, with particular emphasis on
execution of business & functional strategies, customer experience & process transformation. He
has worked with banking, outsourcing, IT, discrete manufacturing & telecom business processes.
He draws on extensive experience (15 years) in Hoshin Kanri, Blue Ocean Strategy, Lean, Six Sigma,
Outsourcing, Change Management and Touch point Management to deliver composite solutions that put client’s
business in an Advantageous & Profitable position.
Client engagements aim at eliminating the barriers for seamless execution of strategies, carpet bombing customer
touch points, diagnostic interventions on customer churn & retention and implementation of transformational
projects.
He can be reached at neil@collaborat.com or +91 9176616766.