Sprint: Leveraged Execution

Goal Achievement through Leveraged Execution

Excel at reaching ambitious goals through skillful collaboration and influence. This program teaches you to spot improvements, paint a compelling vision of its realization, and lead cross-functional teams.

By completing this Sprint, you will be supported to request, lead, and deploy resources strategically and inspire action with and beyond your direct reports.

Learning Objectives

Core Principles and Practical Applications

To examine the key components of effective goal setting in growth organizations
To explore strategies for aligning individual, team, and organizational goals
To analyze the principles of influence and collaboration across departments
To study successful cases of leveraged execution in growth businesses with technical management
To create well-formed goals/objectives that align with your organization's strategic vision
To develop a plan for building and leading high-performing cross-functional teams
To implement strategies for influencing without direct authority
To design a system for tracking and adjusting goals based on real-time feedback

Primary Audience

Designed to address the professional development of managers reporting to a CEO, COO, CIO, or other senior manager at a growth-oriented tech organization.

Your managers participate as a cohort of up to 4, 12, or 25.
As with any group of professionals whose performance counts, you learn and develop together as a team so you build your relationships and experience with each other.

Prerequisites

Onboarding – Required for new companies and/or first time ELEVATE sprint participants. 90 minutes.

Can be taken as a first ELEVATE Sprint? No.
Pre-requisites Sprints: Foundation, Feedback, Delegation, Metrics

Technical Requirements

Laptop or mobile with Internet access
Any calendar system.
Any email system.
Any work environment project management system with Kanban capability (such as Trello, Asana, or others).

Enrollment Period

Once enrolled, your company cohort will have access to the training portal for onboarding prior to the start of the Sprint.

Once the Sprint begins, you will have access to the live support calls for the Sprint, as well as for 30 days following the completion of the Sprint for review and reinforcement. ELEVATE program participants have access and follow-up support for 1 year.

Why Leveraged Execution Matters in Leadership

Reclaim lost productivity: US tech companies lose an estimated $37 billion annually due to ineffective meetings. For a 500-person company, that's approximately $18.5 million a year. This program can help recapture up to 20% of that lost time, directly impacting your bottom line.
Accelerate innovation cycles: According to a McKinsey study, tech employees spend 35% of their work week in meetings. Streamlining these sessions can speed up product development cycles by up to 15%, giving you a competitive edge in the fast-paced tech market.
Enhance cross-functional collaboration: Break down silos that cost tech organizations up to 25% of their productive capacity. Learn techniques that other top tech managers use to make meetings a catalyst for interdepartmental synergy, crucial for complex tech projects.
Boost employee retention: 67% of workers cite unproductive meetings as a major source of job dissatisfaction in a recent Korn Ferry report. Improve meeting effectiveness to increase engagement and potentially reduce turnover costs, which average 100-150% of a tech employee's salary.
Optimize remote and hybrid workflows: With 76% of tech companies adopting hybrid models, learn how to run engaging virtual meetings that bridge the gap between in-office and remote team members, ensuring consistent productivity across all work environments.

Curriculum for this Sprint

What You Will Learn

Align individual and team goals with organizational objectives
Break down complex goals into actionable, measurable steps
Leverage cross-functional collaboration to accelerate goal achievement
Use influence strategies to gain support without direct authority
Regularly review and adjust goals based on feedback and changing circumstances

Tools, Frameworks, Systems

Well-formed Goal Setting Method
OKR (Objectives and Key Results) Framework
Influence Map for Stakeholder Management
Force Field Analysis for Goal Planning
4DX (Four Disciplines of Execution) Model

Enrollment is Easy

My Team is Ready to Grow

This Sprint takes place: 1x every other Quarter.

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