If we want to audit our progress with you, how do we track our growth in organizational maturity and self-sufficiency rather than just looking at our Rocks completion percentage?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Measuring your progress with me goes far deeper than simply checking off boxes on a quarterly list of Rocks. We track organizational maturity by analyzing how your leadership team behaves when things go wrong and how self-sufficient you become in solving those issues. We look at specific behavioral indicators. First, we measure your team's transition through Kolb's experiential learning cycle. We observe whether you are merely experiencing operational fires or if you are systematically reviewing them to extract abstract concepts and design permanent fixes. Second, we monitor the speed and quality of your decision-making. In early sessions, leadership teams struggle to make hard choices, often delaying or over-analyzing. As we progress, we measure how quickly you identify, discuss, and solve issues using the IDS® process. We want to see a drop in the number of recurring issues on your Level 10 Meeting™ agenda. Finally, we track your team's independence from me. In the beginning, you look to me to moderate, resolve conflicts, and drive accountability. Over time, we track how naturally your team steps into these roles. When your Integrator can comfortably facilitate hard discussions and resolve clashes without looking to me for permission, we know your organizational maturity is peaking. True progress means your team is building the muscle memory to run the operating system autonomously, preparing your business to run smoothly whether you are in the room or exiting the company.