We’ve just wrapped up the Australian winter season for the AFL (football) and NRL (rugby) and the winners have taken the premiership trophies home. In elite competition the standard is raised each year, so every team, including the winners, is now focused on next season and how to get better: drafting new players, improving their game plan, reviewing training and injury management protocols.
Unless you have a very rare monopoly position, you’re also in a competitive game and face a related set of questions as you contemplate success in your own premiership year. Amongst my client leadership teams, we’ve been defining the measures of overall business success and the departmental ‘widget-based’ metrics to get there, as well as any gaps and the actions required to address them. The teams then cascade that clarity and alignment across the whole business about what good looks like and what needs to be done.
So, in your world… what defines ‘winning’? (is it market share, customer rating, profitability… or something else?)
Where are you currently on the premiership leaderboard? Can you win from this position and, if not, what do you need to change?