It is All About Results

The purpose of this post is to stress the importance of keeping the results we seek in mind all the time.  When you keep results in mind, you are better able to align your time and effort to accomplish the results you desire.  Being highly conscious of the results enables you to better decide what to do when.  It allows you to better prioritize and focus.   “Beginning with the end in mind” is the second habit of highly effective people according to Stephen Covey’s bestseller Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

The challenge is that end results are usually not very clear for many of us.  Whether it is because we are not clear ourselves or others have not clearly communicated what they want, need, expect, etc.  Thus, many of us spin our wheels and end up wasting time, effort, and energy on things that do not contribute to the End Results.  If you want to add value or be most valuable, you need to make sure you clearly understand the key results you need to align to your efforts.  End Results get accomplished by a “chain of results”.  The best way to align your efforts is to develop a simple diagram to help you develop and visualize the chain of results necessary to accomplish your desired end results.

Here is an illustration of what one would look like:

Thinking about results and sub results all the way to the end result help you develop a result-oriented mindset that should enable highly efficient and effective accomplishment of what you want or need to accomplish.  The process can clear up lots of activity and action that may or may not yield impact on the next result link along the chain. Another advantage of doing this is that conflicting results can be identified earlier and clarified easier.  So often we work at cross purposes without realizing it until it is too late.   This approach also enables you to communicate more clearly and effectively up or down the chain of command.  It also makes resource allocation much easier.

Think about it — play with it — And do not forget that It is all about results.

The BEST is Yet to Come!

Epi Torres, CEO