Our How: Leading with Intent
Leading with Intent is Daylight Advisory’s Performance Excellence Pathway. This 5-step framework is the "how" of Daylight Advisory consulting and coaching services and is the process that guides all our engagements.
Our pathway is uniquely designed to increase your organization's intentionality and precision in leading and running your business.
Focused Performance Excellence Pathways
Daylight Advisory’s Performance Excellence framework provides a pathway to empower and equip leaders to navigate complexities, foster growth, and achieve strategic objectives by promoting meaningful behavior change.
Whether your organization's focus is safety, excellence, or another objective, each step—discovery and diagnostics, behavior alignment roadmap, customized education, execution support, and internal champion development—is designed and carried out with that lens in mind.
The Performance Excellence Pathway uses behavioral science and practical strategies to help leaders succeed. We guide leaders to turn vision into action, navigate complexity, grow their teams, overcome challenges, and deliver results that matter.
Step-by-Step Details
Discovery and Diagnostics
Your organizational culture sets the stage for what’s possible. It can boost—or block—performance, engagement, retention, and loyalty. Culture shapes how work gets done, how people collaborate, and how strategies turn into results.
Our discovery and diagnostics process, built on over 50 years of behavioral science insights, helps identify what drives success and what needs attention. We analyze the systems, methods, and practices that shape performance to see how they align with your values, mission, and goals, ensuring they deliver the impact you intend.
The process culminates in a clear presentation of findings and actionable recommendations, delivered directly to your team to guide next steps.
THE DISCOVERY AND DIAGNOSTICS PROCESS INVOLVES
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Real-time observations as people work normal routines
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Interviews and focus groups of a representative, cross-section of employees
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Review of documents and data
Four Conditions for Performance Excellence
The Diagnostics process focuses on the four conditions for performance excellence. These elements enable and guide performance, providing the information and motivation to excel.
Behavior Alignment Roadmap
The roadmap links key leading & lagging metrics to business-critical behaviors, aligning those behaviors at each organizational level, to optimize focus & accelerate impact. It’s the ‘how to’ for achieving your strategic goals.
The Behavior Alignment Roadmap:
- Creates alignment (by working backwards, we get better alignment among levels)
- Identifies unique roles and responsibilities
- Ensures people spend more time on the most effective strategies (consequence delivery)
- Identifies behaviors closely linked to the metric, behaviors that support the next level, and more behaviors that serve as consequences
- Outlines shaping plans to focus on progress and improvement
Customized Education
We will design, develop, and facilitate customized workshops, crafted to hone leadership skills and instill impactful behavioral change. With content informed by the Discovery and Diagnostics phase, we leverage a participant-centered approach to create dynamic and interactive sessions.
All sessions will include experiential learning, interactive discussions, large group, small group and individual activities.
Potential Topics
Strategic leadership
Promoting positive organizational culture
Foundational concepts of behavioral science
Building trust and relationships
Communication skills and effective performance expectations.
Strategies to enhance performance of others (influence)
Delivering effective feedback with sensitivity
Performance coaching
Lean behavior
Execution Support
We are committed to helping leaders build habits that transform the way they lead. We’ll provide ongoing guidance, feedback, and support as they apply new skills in their day-to-day roles. This hands-on approach leads to quicker progress and greater impact. Our collaboration will emphasize the application and integration of the concepts and tools introduced during facilitated workshops.
We’ll meet face-to-face, online, or on the phone to:
- Troubleshooting management challenges
- Brainstorm ways that the tools of behavioral science can improve relationships and reduce effort
- Provide guidance on positive influence strategies
- Review the alignment and impact of organizational performance systems
Our work together may focus on:
- How you show up as a leader (i.e., your executive presence) and how you can achieve greater influence in your current and future roles. We’ll discuss your career goals and aspirations, navigating internal politics and managing upwards. The emphasis is on you, your leadership brand, and your impact on others.
- Managing others and tactical strategies to help others excel in their roles. The metrics for which you are accountable serve as the north star.
Internal Champion Development
Developing internal capability will help sustain the outcomes achieved and create an infrastructure for ongoing innovation. We will prepare internal trainers to facilitate future workshops and internal coaches to support the ongoing change efforts.
Study of Advanced Topics
Candidates will review, discuss, and apply strategies related to advanced topics such as leadership and influence, behavioral science, generating buy-in, and organizational systems.
Train-the-Coach
We’ll partner with candidates to tackle real business challenges providing real-time observation and feedback.
Train-the-Trainer
We’ll prepare trainers to master key concepts, so they can effectively teach these to colleagues. We will co-facilitate and observe facilitation, providing feedback and guidance in real-time.
Sample Implementation Process
A full implementation process includes all five steps of our Leading with Intent Performance Excellence Pathway. The following chart depicts a sample deployment sequence and shows how Daylight Advisory's consulting, coaching, and speaking services fit into the broader engagement.
Please get in touch to discuss details of how to tailor and apply the Leading with Intent framework in your organization.