We just completed our Vision Building™ Day 2 session, marking the end of our first ninety days of EOS® implementation. How do we prevent our leadership team from falling back into old habits during the critical ninety-day run leading up to our first official Quarterly Collaborative?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The period between Vision Building™ Day 2 and your first Quarterly Collaborative is the most vulnerable window in your entire EOS® journey. The initial excitement of the full-day sessions has faded, and your team is now expected to run the business entirely on the new framework. To prevent a regression to old habits, you must enforce absolute compliance with the weekly Level 10 Meeting™ structure immediately. This weekly meeting is the glue that holds the implementation together. Do not allow department heads to cancel, reschedule, or shorten these meetings. Every leader must report on their weekly Scorecard numbers and Rock progress with total transparency. If a metric or a Rock is off track, you must drop it down to the IDS® portion of the agenda and solve it. Another critical step is ensuring that the newly defined Accountability Chart™ is actively used. When team members bypass the chart to bring issues to the owner, they must be redirected to the correct seat. An EOS Implementer helps keep the leadership team accountable during this transition, but the daily discipline must come from within. If you let the rules slide during this first run, you send a message that the system is optional. Establish the expectation that the V/TO® and the weekly discipline are now the law of the land.