Implementer Posts
The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS®)
The brilliant leadership and management system for small and midsize companies Would you describe your company’s leadership and management system as brilliant, simple, elegant and magnificently effective? How about, it creates an environment that people love to work in and results in a robust bottom line? Gino Wickman’s Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS®), outlined in “Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business,” is all of this. EOS is rapidly spreading through North America, England and Australia. There are 13,000+ companies in 2022 that have implemented EOS with a professional implementer, and projections are for 100,000 companies by the end of 2030. Further, it has gained favor with venture capitalists such as The Firefly Group, which is running its own firm on EOS and investing in companies running on EOS. What is EOS, and why is it so popular? EOS is a set of simple, real-world tools that enhance the effectiveness of one another. Wickman designed EOS the
Helping People Reach Their Full Potential through EOS
How EOS Impacts Community On this episode of Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, host Will Crist talked with Julie Markee, a life-long entrepreneur with 25 years of experience helping businesses improve effectiveness. Julie started her business about 11 years ago helping companies streamline processes and increase profitability. However, over time, she realized her true passion was helping people achieve their full potential. That’s when she discovered EOS and realized it was a great way to utilize her engineering background and help owners get more out of their business. Throughout the episode, Will and Julie discussed her journey and some of her client’s journeys. From Overworking to EOS Implementer Early on in her career, Julie was working a weekly schedule that was not sustainable because she thought that it was necessary for her to work that hard. It wasn’t until her sister asked her when she was going to stop working so much that she realized there is
Building Community with EOS
Building Community with EOS On this episode of Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, host Will Crist talked with Nathen Fox, a certified EOS implementer. Before hearing about the EOS Life, Nathen was a fractional executive who worked with anywhere from three to five companies at a time. He worked 60-hour weeks and was not being compensated correctly for the amount of work he was doing. Although he liked his job, Nathen realized something had to change and he soon began to embrace the EOS Life and help others do the same. Throughout the episode, Will and Nathen discussed how EOS has affected Nathen, his clients, and the people around them. From Fractional Executive to EOS Implementer As a fractional executive, Nathen worked many long hours and traveled three to four days a week. Nathen found this enjoyable, but he didn’t realize he was producing more than he was being paid
IDS™
How to Run An Effective Meeting How often do you sit in meeting after meeting trying to solve the same exact issues, you tried to solve last time, with no solution? Or a solution was found, but no one was assigned to do it, so it continues to be left unresolved? Recently, at one of my latest quarterly meetings with a newer client, we were working through their issues list—and man, it was a daunting list. Over 50 issues filled my entire 4ft x 8ft whiteboard and sat staring at us. Just waiting to be solved. By the end of the afternoon, I helped them identify their key issues and found solutions that resolved them at the root, knocking out a bunch of their other issues in the process and lifting a huge weight off the leadership team’s shoulders. At the end of the session, the client said, “It’s always
Sorry, But…
In the period from mid-October until mid-February, EOS Implementers are immersed in what we call “Annual Season”, the time of year when we lead many of our clients through their Two-Day Annual Planning Sessions. A major component of the Annual Planning Session is working on the health and well-being of the Leadership Team. It is also a time for me to reflect on the healthy – and less healthy – behaviors I’ve seen over the years I have been an EOS Implementer. I’ve started calling one of these less healthy behaviors the “Sorry But”. This behavior is particularly poignant for me, because of some important feedback I got from a mentor many years ago. She told me an apology ends with “sorry”, followed by a period. Then silence. It doesn’t end with “sorry” followed by a comma, then “but……….”. The Sorry But often happens after someone is called
You Have to Give Up to Go Up
You Have to Give Up to Go Up It is a business truth that organizations are like organisms – they are either growing or dying. (As a personal side note hearing this once from a scientist when I was younger made sense. Now as I get older, I would like to dispute it but alas, I am told it is still the truth.) For organizations, this can have multiple meanings. It doesn’t mean that you have to double sales every year, but you do need to continue to grow in some way: revenue, the way you operate, employee development, profitability, or the like to survive. Regardless of the type of growth, change always follows since the way you used to do things won’t necessarily work any longer. Another truth with growth is there is always something you as leaders have to give up, or delegate if you want to go up. We have