The whirlwind of our day-to-day lives in education can make it easy to lose focus on our big-picture goal: we want our students to succeed. By focusing on our big goal and utilizing the four disciplines of execution, we can better manage the whirlwind of our day-to-day lives.
These four disciplines include:
Focus on the Wildly Important Goal (WIG): You should have one WIG; other important goals will need attention, but the main focus is the most important. This singular focus ensures we dedicate our efforts where they genuinely count, even though other goals may also be necessary.
Measure Lead Behaviors: What we measure must be something we can influence and improve daily or weekly. We need to see change that causes lag results to keep the motivation. This will result in the growth of engagement and execution (Productivity Game, 2017).
Put up a scoreboard: When the score is known, more effort will be put in. If we give our audience a view of where they are and where we are going, they will succeed. You must include your WIG, Lead measures, and Lag results on this scoreboard.
Schedule weekly accountability talks: When our team meets weekly to discuss what is going on and what we can do better, we hold each other accountable, and our execution will increase.
Implementing this execution system within the educational setting poses challenges, particularly in the day-to-day classroom environment. However, I am eager to explore its potential impact and effectiveness.
Productivity Game. (2017, July 18). THE 4 DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION by C. McChesney, S. Covey, and J. Huling [Video]. YouTube. THE 4 DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION by C. McChesney, S. Covey, and J. Huling
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