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What is a GPS?

1. A GPS is a one-page business plan that provides focus, clarity, and alignment.
2. G: what is your ONE big Goal for the year?
3. P: what are your top Priorities to achieve your goal?
4. S: what are the top 5 Strategies for accomplishing each priority?

Why Use a GPS?

1. Helps leaders simplify their business by getting the most important priorities on one page.
2. Coaches people to focus their time and resources on the priorities that matter most, first.
3. Ensures everyone on your team understands the organization’s priorities and their part to be successful.
4. Assigns ownership to individuals for increased clarity, alignment, and accountability.
5. Provides direction on where to focus when priorities change.
6. Facilitates conversations with other leaders whose priorities may not be aligned with yours.
7. Provides a framework for how to act when priorities change.

How to Complete Your GPS

1. Establish your ONE big Goal for the year.


1. Start by asking, “Fast forward to the end of the year… how will you know if you’re successful?”
2. If it is not specific, ask “How will you know if you’re successful?”
3. If it is not measurable, ask “What specifically has to happen to achieve that?”
4. Can you simplify it any further so people can easily remember it?
5. Could you achieve this goal and still fail this year? If so, what changes would you need to make?

2. Identify the Priorities that would make achieving your goal easier or unnecessary.
1. Rank your prioriites in order of priority by asking
1. If you could only accomplish one, what’s the ONE that would make achieving your goal easier or
unnecessary?
2. Should you earn the right to accomplish a second, which would it be?
3. Should you earn the right to accomplish a third, which would it be?
4. Re-rank your priorities so they are in order of priority.
2. Can any be combined into a higher-level priority?
3. Ensure priorities are accountable (specific and measurable) by asking:
1. If it is not specific, ask “How will you know if you are successful?”
2. If it is not measurable, ask “What specifically has to happen to achieve that?”
4. Identify the ONE person most responsible for leading this priority and write their name next to it.
5. Identify when the priority needs to be accomplished by and write that next to the person’s name.

3. Develop your Strategies.


1. What are the specific strategies you can do to accomplish this priority?
2. Prioritize your strategies.
1. If you could only accomplish one, what’s the ONE that would make achieving this priority easier or
unnecessary?
2. Should you earn the right to accomplish a second, which would it be?
3. Should you earn the right to accomplish a third, which would it be?

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4. Continue until your strategies are prioritized.
3. Ensure each is written as an accountable strategy by asking
1. If it is not specific, ask “How will you know if you’re successful?”
2. If it is not measurable, ask “What specifically has to happen to achieve that?”
4. Identify the ONE person most responsible for leading this priority and write their name next to it.
5. Identify when the priority needs to be accomplished by and write that next to the person’s name.

Advanced Questions

1. What are the top three things most likely to stop you from being successful? What’s one solution for each?
2. If you had to draw the line in the sand where everything above the line absolutely must get done, where would you draw it?
3. What can you say/ask when someone is asking you to focus on something that is not aligned with your GPS?

For additional resources visit www.the1thing.com/training

The ONE Thing Trainings. Copyright © 2012 Rellek Publishing Partners, Ltd. All rights reserved.

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