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Do your teams agree what the new priorities mean, and what to stop?
Usually not. The priorities are clear on the slide; every team reads them in favour of what it already does. This program aligns understanding, belief and trade-offs, in four one-hour team sessions.
Make it for your team
Execution readinessExample scores for a sample company. Add your website to estimate your own. Measured once your team plays. Ready at 80.
Where it usually breaks38Today81/ 100After the 4 team sessions
Ready to executeShared knowledgeHigh riskDifferent definitions of done for each priority
Shared convictionHigh riskTeams see the priorities as someone else's targets
Shared practiceMedium riskNo agreed rule for saying no to old work
4 sessions~50 min each8–12 people per teamNo facilitatorThe gap
What you'd typically hear if five of your managers answered alone.
SESSION 1 · FILL THE GAPSAnswered alone
Finish the sentence: a project that is not linked to any of the new priorities should…MMira…continue if it is already started.
JJonas…stop, unless the leadership team says otherwise.
AAylin…be linked to a priority somehow.
TTomas…continue quietly. It still matters to us.
RRosa…it depends who is asking.
What it costs you if nobody notices
Shared knowledgeEverything becomes a priorityIf every team can map its work to a priority, the list stops meaning anything.
Shared convictionTargets without ownersTeams that see the priorities as leadership's targets report on them and work on something else.
Shared practiceOld work never stopsWithout a rule for saying no, the new priorities get whatever time is left over.
The program that closes the gap
Four one-hour sessions. Every team, the same priorities and the same things stopped, this year.
Session
Shared knowledgeShared convictionShared practice
S1Know the prioritiesAgrees what done looks like for each one.
Shared knowledge1Agree what done looks like for each priority2Agree the rule for what continuesShared conviction3Decide what to do with an unlinked projectShared practice4Sort real work situations into stop5Rehearse the call on a half-finished project that links to no priority
DemoS2Own the prioritiesShows you whether teams see them as their own, and why not.
Shared knowledge1Quiz each other on when a project should stopShared conviction2Compare your team's view of what's at stake with the…3Decide what happens to unlinked workShared practice4Decide together which work continues5Rehearse the exact call on stopping unlinked work
DemoS3Stop the right workSorts real projects into continue, pause and stop.
Shared knowledge1Build team confidence in the stopShared conviction2Decide which projects to stopShared practice3Sort real work items into continue4Sort real projects into continue
DemoS4Say no wellPractises saying no to requests that do not fit.
Shared knowledge1Agree the exact rule for what continuesShared conviction2Align on how your team will say no to work that does not…Shared practice3Match real work situations to the right call on continuing4Rehearse saying no to off priority requests
DemoPlay it yourself · a short demo · one exercise from session 3 · Sort the Situations
Alone first. Then the team agrees on one answer.
This is a taste, not the whole session. “Stop the right work” runs 4 exercises with your own team, on a call or in a room. Here is one of them, on the real screens, played with four AI teammates, so you can feel how a session works.
Stop the right work · Sort the Situations00:00MJLSYouSort real work items into continue, pause or stop, and align on the rule for saying noOn screen: Sort each of these 7 work items into its correct bucket alone
You are playing with 4 AI teammates. Every screen opens on its briefing: read it, then tap I’m ready.
Readiness intelligence · what you'll see as teams play
Know which teams are working on the priorities, and where you should step in, before the year is half gone.
Acme & Sons › Readiness intelligence › New prioritiesEvery team works toward the same priorities
Readiness index81%Ready+43 pts25% participation + 25% progress + 50% alignment · Ready at 80
Shared knowledge48 → 88Shared conviction37 → 71Shared practice44 → 80
Participation94%235 of 250 people played at least once
Progress75%3 of 4 planned sessions completed
Alignment41% →78%780 of 1000 points aligned
Failed alignment pointsWhere you should step in
Stopping half-finished workNot aligned in 11 of 30 playsShared knowledgeYour product and IT teams · 9 teams
Are these our priorities, or leadership's targets?"Not yet, we still have concerns" in 2 playsShared convictionYour support functions · 5 teams
Your managers could play this next week. Add your website to make it yours.
- 01 · 5 minConfirm the assumptionsCheck what we inferred about you and edit any text in place. Your edits are locked.
- 02 · 1 link per teamInvite your teamAny browser, any device. No account, nothing to install.
- 03 · after each playWatch readiness fill inYou see who played, what they agreed, and where to follow up.
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Free until you play live · ISO 27001 · EU data
Free until you play live · ISO 27001 · EU data