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Howwe is a way of working to make your strategy and business plan come alive, facilitated by an application. Changing the way you work and adopting the Howwe Way of Working takes some commitment, but in combination with our application, knowing what to do each week becomes easy.
In short, Howwe helps you and your organisation to:
- Align the whole organisation to work towards common goals, as stated in the company strategy and business plan
- Focus and prioritize what is most important for your organisation and your team
- Clearly identify what activities need to be done to reach the team goals
- Leverage the whole team to work towards reaching the team goals every week
- Know if you are reaching your goals by continuously measuring progress
- Allow you to be proactive by focusing what needs to be done next rather than reporting what has already been completed
Teams that master the Howwe way of working outperform those that have not. It’s not even close. Enjoy this introduction and if you want to learn more, you have it right here.
Most Important Goal
MIG stands for Most Important Goal, and indicates the top priority a team, department, or company wants to achieve as part of the accelerating strategy. A team has a maximum of two MIG at any time, all of which aim to reinforce the overarching company MIG.
Each manager sets a MIG for their team in collaboration with the team members. It should be measurable by month or quarter, within reach for the team to achieve, and ladder up to the overall company MIG. Senior managers can veto a MIG, but they cannot decide it for themselves without team participation.
A MIG takes priority over other existing goals that you may have in your accelerating strategy. Being clear and knowing what to prioritize leaves more time to focus on the outcomes of your actions.
There are a few guidelines to help enable team success:
- No team should focus on more than two MIGs at a time
- Each MIG should have a clear, measurable target and timeline.
- Each employee can provide input on the MIG for their team
- Each MIG should ladder up to or influence the company’s overarching MIG
Key Activities
Each week you will have Key Activities to complete in pursuit of your team’s MIG. The Key Activity could be one of three types of tasks, behaviors, or activities: 1) something we often talk about but never do; 2) something we already do but need to do more of; or 3) something that you’ve stopped doing but need to start doing again.
The difference between Key Activities and other daily tasks or activities is that Key Activities corresponds directly to the MIG. By measuring Key Activities on a continuous basis you increase the likelihood of achieving the MIG. This makes it easier to know if your goals are achieved by the end of the set period. This means that the purpose of your Key Activity is not to completely drive all that you’re measured on, but only your Most Important Goals.
Just as with MIG, having too many Key Activities would be counterproductive towards prioritizing the right things. However, just as MIG can vary a lot, so can the Key Activity that correspond to those goals. That’s why you could have more than one Key Activity that drive progress towards one of your MIG.
Acceleration Meeting
The Acceleration Meeting is all about effectiveness. This is the 15 minute check-in each week for your team to reflect on Key Activity results to date and discuss next actions in pursuit of your MIG.
Acceleration Meetings help your team to take a break from day-to-day execution and take time to focus on the long-term accelerating strategy. This meeting is an important part of your teams’ development and highly relevant to your overall progress. Make sure to prioritize this meeting and have each team member every week.
As the team manager, you will lead the meeting and share the Howwe dashboard for everyone to seThe team manager leads the meeting and shares the Howwe® dashboard for everyone present. And it’s the same agenda every week:
- How are we performing relative to each MIG? As a team and individuals?
- How did we perform during the previous period?
- How are we doing relative to targets and AKPIs over time?
- What are our commitments this coming week?
- Summarize the teams overall commitments for the coming week.
Even though the Acceleration Meeting will become a routine weekly meeting for you, it will not feel like it, as it has a very precise purpose of visualizing your progress towards your MIG. The Acceleration Meeting is also an opportunity for team members to share what they’re learning and any best practices that can help others to work with the accelerating strategy.
The transparency of this Way of Working will not only show you better results on your goals, but also through clarity raise the team spirit of your team.
“By using Howwe we are able to easily prioritize, follow up and keep the focus on the most important activities with the highest ROI.“
– Lars Kry, CEO Nexer.
Howwe’s customers achieve up to 25x ROI (Return on Investment) in the first 12 months). Hear some of our customers explain the results they achieved using Howwe.
Learn Why CEOs choose Howwe® to accelerate the progress of their most important goal. Video from Howwe Technologies @ Katarina Bennich on Vimeo.
