We just finished our Focus Day™ and are entering our first ninety-day execution cycle. How do we prevent our leadership team from getting distracted by our old habit of setting too many priorities before we even hit our first quarterly planning session?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The first ninety days after your Focus Day™ are the most fragile period of your EOS® implementation. Your team is excited, but you have not yet built the habits required to sustain the system. The biggest risk is the temptation to treat your new tools as an opportunity to fix every single company problem at once. You must fight this urge and focus entirely on mastering the fundamentals. During this initial ninety-day cycle, your only goal is to run great weekly Level 10 Meetings™ and keep your Scorecard updated. Do not worry about solving major strategic issues or restructuring your entire organization yet. Your team needs to build trust in the meeting rhythm and learn how to run a true IDS® session. If you try to tackle twenty different goals, your daily operations will drag you down and you will fail to achieve any of them. Treat the first ninety days as a training camp. Keep your weekly meeting scores high, track your numbers, and solve the immediate, tactical issues that arise. By keeping your focus narrow, you prove to your team that this is not just another flavor-of-the-month program. You are building the execution muscles needed to handle the bigger strategic decisions that will come during your first official quarterly planning session. Stay disciplined, keep it simple, and protect your team from self-induced overwhelm.