The Vision Component® is your description of who you are and your strategic plan for the future. Use the V/TO tool to document your organization's Vision, which you can find by answering EOS's 8 Questions™️:

1. What are your Core Values (the guiding principles embodied by your team members)?
2. What is your Core Focus (your purpose, passion, niche, and/or just cause)?
3. What is your 10-Year Target™️ (a series of bold long-term goals)?
4. What is your marketing strategy (your ideal customer, value proposition, proven process, and more)?
5. What is your 3-Year Picture™️ (what you want the organization to look like in three years)?
6. What is your 1-Year Plan (what needs to be accomplished in the next 12 months to be on track for your 3-Year Picture)?
7. What are your quarterly Rocks (quarterly goals that build toward your 1-Year Plan)?
8. What are your issues (the obstacles, opportunities, challenges, and ideas in your way)?

Your vision requires a lot of work. You'll great people to get you from here to where you want to be. Strengthening your People Component™️ involves:

• Getting the right people into the right seats
• Organizing an Accountability Chart
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• Reviewing team members with GWC™️

How will you gauge your progress on your way to turning your vision into reality? You'll need a strong Data Component™️. Ninety empowers each team to maintain their own Scorecards to track the key Measurables they use to stay on the right path.

💡 Read our Scorecard tool help center articles here.

Effective weekly Scorecards contain 5-15 Measurables (mostly consisting of leading indicators) with each member of the team owning (being accountable for) at least one of them.

The Process Component™️ is about how you get things done. Systemize what works to create consistency and prepare for future growth. Document the steps and sub-steps of your core processes on Ninety to make it easy for team members to follow proven paths.

Your strength in the Issues Component™️ is based on how well your teams identify and document Issues on the short- and long-term Issues lists (find these on Ninety here).

Short-term Issues are the problems, obstacles, ideas, or opportunities to discuss and solve as a team during weekly meetings.

Long-term Issues, sometimes called LTIs, are items that don’t have priority this quarter, so you’ll discuss them during your next quarterly or annual meeting. Some of these become Rocks or stay an LTI until your team has the capacity to take it on.

IDS®️

Solving Issues is a crucial part of any meeting. Typically, the IDS section of an EOS meeting is the longest agenda item. IDS is a simple framework for teams to master:

• Identify — The habit of adding problems, obstacles, ideas, and opportunities to our team's Issues list.
• Discuss — An on-topic conversation open to every team member that focuses on being solutions-oriented.
• Solve — Issues are solved when the person who identified the Issue is satisfied with the discussion, and the team agrees on the next steps needed.

The Traction Component®️ is your team's ability to maintain the necessary discipline used to move the organization closer to its goals. The main tools of Traction® are Rocks and The Meeting Pulse®.

Rocks

Rocks consist of your team's most important objectives over the next ninety days. These quarterly goals position your company to complete its annual goals and substantially move the company forward.

The Meeting Pulse®️

When you meet, what you'll cover, and how you document the next steps are all a part of your organization's or team's meeting pulse. Strong EOS teams consistently meet for their weekly Level 10 Meeting™ and hold quarterly meetings every 90 days, including an extended annual meeting once per year.

Consistency of meetings allows your team members to focus on getting their work done because they know their Issues will be addressed and solved during meetings.