Personal & Family Version: Discipline #1: Focus On Your Wildly Important Goals (WIG)
Personal & Family Version: Discipline #1: Focus On Your Wildly Important Goals (WIG)
Personal & Family Version: Discipline #1: Focus On Your Wildly Important Goals (WIG)
Personal & Family Version
WIG Rules
1. Do not set more than 2 WIG’s at the same time. Ideally 1 WIG.
2. All WIG’s must be in the form of X to Y by when.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
Personal & Family Version
Watch out! Lead measures are the most difficult aspect of 4DX
1. They can be counterintuitive. Most of us are used to looking at lag measures e.g. the scale
2. They can be hard to keep track of. They tend to require some discipline
3. They can look simple with a precise focus on a single behaviour.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
Personal & Family Version
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
Personal & Family Version
3 Principles
1. People play differently when their keeping score. If you're not keeping score you're just practicing.
2. A coach’s scorecard is not a players scorecard. A coach’s scorecard is complex. A players
scorecard is simple. Think of a basketball game. The coach is keeping track of all sorts of data on
things like field goal %, steals, blocks, 3 pointers, etc, etc. The players scoreboard is simple. It
shows a handful of measures that indicate to the players at a glance if they are winning or losing
the game.
3. The purpose of the scorecard is to motivate the players to win.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
Personal & Family Version
Example of lead measure chart
Name 1 2 3 4 Avg
John 2 4 5 7 4
Fred 3 4 5 6 3
Mary 3 4 7 1 4
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
Personal & Family Version
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
Personal & Family Version
WIG Session Agenda
Team:_______________________________
Name:_______________________________ Date:____________________
1. Review.
Leader to review the scoreboard.
a. Discussion: Learn from successes and failures. Are lead activities moving the lag?
What’s working? What’s not?
2.
Report. Each member, including the leader, to report on last week’s / yesterday’s
commitments.
a. State the commitment
b. State its outcome
c. Team members that keep commitments should receive praise from team. It should feel
really good to report on kept commitments.
3.
Plan: Make highimpact commitments for the coming week. Clear the path by removing
obstacles and make new commitments that will raise the lead measures to the required level of
performance the coming week.
Leaders should guide the team in making commitments that
have the highest impact using the following guidelines:
1. One or two high impact commitments at most. Key is keeping them!
2. Specific. Exactly what willyou do and what is the outcome?
3. Should start with “I”.
Commit personally. Its not a commitment for the team / someone
else.
4. Timely. Must be able to be competed in the coming day / week.
5. Must be directed at moving the lead measures on the scoreboard.
Team Member High Impact Commitment Kept?