A self-implementing company runs EOS® on its own. The leadership team reads Traction, learns the tools and leads its own sessions. A company that works with an EOS Implementer® has a professional facilitator teach the tools, run the sessions and hold the team to the system. Both run on EOS. The difference is who teaches it and who keeps you accountable.
I love working with self-implementers. They already understand EOS. They chose it, they read the books, and they did the work.
I was a self-implementer too. We did EOS on our own at our remodeling company before I became an Implementer. Not surprisingly, I jumped to Process first. But we also moved fast and skipped things, and that slowed us down. We did not use all the tools of EOS.
An outside perspective changes that. A good EOS Implementer is a facilitator, a teacher and a coach. That is what makes you as effective as possible with EOS.
That is why I love running sessions for self-implementers. They give a team doing EOS on its own a deeper understanding of the tools, so they get what they want from their business.
Self-implementing EOS or working with an EOS Implementer
- The tools are the same. EOS is built so a leadership team can run it on its own.
- An Implementer adds an outside view. A facilitator, teacher and coach who holds the team to the work.
- The gaps hide in what you skip. Most teams don’t know which tools they skipped until someone outside points them out.
Doing EOS on your own? Start here: Can You Self-Implement the EOS Process Component?