Tactical Execution Best Practice 1 – Priority System Alignment with Mission Goals
Seldom do leaders assign work to individuals based on the corporate goal of achieving something. Instead, they interpret and internalize the emphasis placed on assignments given them and then translate this emphasis by way of priorities when delegating or performing tasks. But just as a message changes meaning when passed from person-to-person, so does the perception of priority. This priority drift builds with each successively lower organizational level; eroding the company’s overall effectiveness in achieving its stated mission goals.
Priority system alignment helps alleviate priority drift and further ensures the workforce’s day-to-day activities are optimally aligned with the organization’s mission goals. To achieve this alignment, each organization level must define its activity priorities in terms of contribution to the next higher level’s priorities; much like vertically cascaded, horizontally shared organizational performance measures. Done throughout the organization, the resulting priority system serves to align workforce efforts up, down, and across the organization; improving alignment and workflow.
Additional Information
The following StrategyDriven recommended best practices can be used achieve the priority alignment discussed above:
- Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 1 – Vertical Cascading (article)
- StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 6 – Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 1 of 3 (podcast)
- StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 7 – Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 2 of 3 (podcast)
- StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 8 – Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 3 of 3 (podcast)
- Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 2 – Horizontally Shared (article)
- StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 9 – Horizontally Shared Organizational Performance Measures (podcast)
Registered members can also find information regarding cascaded performance measure alignment within the StrategyDriven whitepaper Organizational Performance Measures – Alignment.
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