One of the first steps in business coaching is to determine the Three Uniques of a business, or the top three differentiators that make one business better than the competition. Leadership teams often skip this step when they are just starting out, only to find themselves struggling to truly define their vision and values down the road. Competing in too many sectors, markets, services or product lines isn’t an effective way to get ahead. Business coaches teach leadership teams to avoid trying to be all things to all people, instead showing them how to develop a strategic focus that puts the business on the right path for success.

There’s a common thread that unites the most successful leadership teams and the most successful companies in the world: they all have a habit of regularly setting and achieving both short-term and long-term goals for the business, and are constantly working on a path that helps them achieve those goals.

Do you know where your company is going and what steps it will take to get there? Every effective leadership team has a strong vision statement that defines who they are, what they do, where they are going and how they will get there. EOS Implementers (business coaches who have been trained to apply EOS) help business owners define the vision of the business by completing the Vision/Traction Organizer™, or V/TO™. The V/TO helps leadership teams and business owners create a clear picture of where the company is going and how it will get there – and it does it all in only 2 pages.

When business coaches talk about selecting an operating system for a business, they aren’t talking about whether to go with Microsoft, Apple or Linux products. Just as a computer’s operating system organizes day-to-day activities and long term data points in order to simplify tasks and store information, a company’s operating system consists of the ways that business is carried out by the leadership team and all employees in the course of daily business.