The Wildly Important Goal workshop is dedicated to Discipline 1: focus on the Wildly Important. Most teams fail at execution not from lack of effort but from too many goals. This workshop forces the hard, narrowing decision down to the single goal that matters most and writes it so clearly that everyone knows exactly what winning looks like.
Run it whenever a team needs to choose or sharpen its WIG, often as the first step of a 4DX launch or at the start of a new cycle. It is also the right session when a team is busy but adrift, working hard on many things while moving nothing that truly matters.
The team that will pursue the goal plus its leader, four to twelve people. Including the team in the choice builds the ownership that the cadence later depends on. A WIG chosen with the team is committed to; a WIG announced to the team is merely complied with.
Start by naming the whirlwind out loud, because the WIG must survive the day job. Brainstorm what would matter most if achieved, then narrow ruthlessly using the test of greatest impact. Make the hard choice of one goal, accepting that focus means saying no to genuinely good options. Finish by writing the WIG as from X to Y by when, with a measurable lag and a real deadline, so there is no ambiguity about the finish line.
Pick the one goal that changes everything. Run it in OrgTP and carry your WIG into lead measures, a scoreboard, and a weekly cadence.
90 minutes total · 5 sections
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