Challenge
What separates companies that succeed from those that don't? It all comes down to execution. Thriving organizations execute on their most important objectives-each employee, each team, and the company itself all accomplishing what they set out to do. On the other hand, execution tanks when workers don't know or grasp the top goals and priorities, aren't committed to those goals, and aren't able to translate them into action. Execution also fails when systems and processes aren't aligned to support the goals, departments and teams don't work together toward a common vision, and people aren't held accountable for the commitments they make.
Solution
FranklinCovey's xQ Service is a vital measurement of your organization's health. Delivered as a short, web-based survey, it measures your organization's ability to execute on your most important priorities and to get the right job done. It gauges how well your organization focuses on your key priorities and provides direction for improvement. The xQ Service also provides reports that enable you to pinpoint areas of excellence and challenges, and it helps individuals learn how to leverage creative collaboration.
About the xQ Service
FranklinCovey's xQ Service is a web-delivered survey that gauges how sharply employees focus on and execute your organization's top priorities. The xQ Service also helps managers improve the consistency of their execution and performance by measuring and addressing specific factors surrounding these six principles of execution: 1) clarity of goals; 2) commitment to goals; 3) translation of goals into action; 4) enabling performance by removing barriers; 5) synergy, trust, collaboration, communication, and processes; and 6) accountability to management and to each other for achieving results.
Uses for xQ
- General organizational / team health assessment
- Leadership-change baseline
- Implementation-failure gap closure
- Readiness to embark on/implement a significant new approach
Core competencies for xQ service include:
| Core Competencies | Participants Will Learn to: |
|---|---|
| General Organizational/Team Health Assessment | Unlike broad culture audits and attitude surveys, the xQ is specifically designed as a management action tool. Each question is defined by a series of standard behaviors that, if identified as being low, can be strengthened to improve the level of execution and, in turn, positively impact results. |
| Leadership Change Baseline | The xQ can satisfy a new leader’s desire for an unbiased anonymous assessment of existing capability including strengths and areas for improvement. |
| Implementation Failure Gap Closure | The xQ process provides the means to uncover the reasons for these failures and take corrective action. |
| Readiness To Embark/Implement a Significant New Approach | xQ is a predictor of future success. Minimize your risk in setting a critical objective or embarking on a new strategic direction by assessing the capability of your workers ability to execute beforehand. |
