Neil suggests that if activities don’t align with the Clear and Compelling Purpose, then either the activities or the purpose itself is flawed. He explains that leaders must ensure the purpose is correct to prevent resources being wasted and useless tasks being completed. To ensure this, he proposes a method where teams identify their top three projects and score them on impact and relevance to the common purpose. By multiplying these scores, projects can be ranked from 1 to 100, with high-impact and highly relevant projects scoring the highest. This method helps to prioritise work that truly contributes to the organisation’s goals, resulting in the team running more efficiently.
To further increase efficiency, Neil recommends using visual aids, such as the Impact x Relevance scoring method during team planning sessions to improve understanding and create discussion. He explains this approach to focus efforts on essential work and to create mutual understanding and increase communication within the team.
Neil concludes his talk by encouraging you to reflect on how you can apply this to your own organisations and teams, and explaining a high performing team as one in which everyone is focused on the same purpose.
if you want to explore this further, then you may consider taking the Building and Leading High Performing Teams course.
