Methodology
A playbook to grow your company
No sports team goes to the Olympics without a coach and without using a playbook. No professional team plays a game through trial and error.
It is the same for business. To win the business olympics, CEOs and their leadership teams need a playbook (aka a SYSTEM) and a coach that is your blindspot remover, who gets you there faster.
Burnout or stalled growth are symptoms of disarray. Growth and ease requires implementing a proven system across people, strategy, execution, and cash.
Imagine:
A rigorously developed strategy, with a interdependent set of differentiators that is tough to copy, that moves your company into white space and builds you a unique and valuable market position
A truly cohesive, aligned team of A players, with emotional intelligence and productive conflict skills, in the right team formation
Imagine consistent execution behaviour and daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly rhythms that achieve bang on results, every quarter. Imagine the ease of getting a capital injection or the higher value of an exit, when you and your have demonstrated outstanding ability to set and execute on ambitious goals.
Imagine a successful cash system owned by the entire leadership team, powered by the key nonfiscal “widgets” or leading metrics that really put cash in the bank
To change your trajectory, we will be implementing connected systems across people, strategy, execution, and cash. The result? From pressure and burn out to freedom and success for the whole leadership team.
There is a different way of running your business day to day, that will lead to better outcomes and a more enjoyable ride along the growth journey. Is it time to get curious?
The top 3 barriers to scaling a business?
#1 is leadership
The top 3 barriers to scaling are: Leadership, shifting market dynamics, and scalable infrastructure. Leadership is #1, because it is people that make everything happen each day.
Magic happens when you dramatically improve the focus and the alignment and the capability of you and your leadership team. Because you are the primary constraint to making more happen.
A great team will make the good decisions to respond to market dynamics, and on tradeoffs around building scalable infrastructure - the #2 and #3 top barriers to scaling.
That’s why we coach the whole leadership team - because scaling a business is a team sport, and the whole team must play better together.
Use a system:
People Strategy
Execution Cash
Metronomics connects the dots between people, strategy, execution, and cash and keeps everything tightly aligned on the journey of high growth. Think of Metronomics as a house, with the foundation being the cultural foundations of a company, and the walls being a cohesive team and a human system that’s working (right people in the right seats), and the roof being your team and team leaders. The inside of the house is strategy, execution, and cash. We need to ensure the whole house is well-built, and solid, and stays aligned. This is what we will build and improve together, using a consistent cadence.
Behaviour change + process change
= Results
When we start to implement Metronomics as a “business operating system” that’s used by the CEO+ senior leadership team, we will rewire meeting and communication habits, how we create strategy, and how we translate strategy into disciplined execution, with clarity on metrics, priorities, and operating rhythms. We will move the game onto an open playing field, the Metronome platform, a software that the team will use to track execution and drive accountability. With a clear scoreboard at all times and the alignment and accountability habits in place, we save hours a week chasing people up, and we remove the risk and cost of misalignment, and we maintain alignment and develop consistent execution habits across the team.
Explore your curiosity
A growth mindset means exploring beyond what you already know, and what you have already tried. Attend our next CEO Workshop to learn more.