Getting Started
Briefs
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Assessments
This brief covers several of our favorite personality assessments we use to understand ourselves and some of the assessments we’ve created to help business leaders.
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9 Core Competencies
The 9 Core Competencies are the essential skills and disciplines that organizations must master to become great companies and achieve their goals.
Guides
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On 9 Core Competencies
The 9 Core Competencies are our time-tested lens for assessing the strength of your company-building proficiency.
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On Ninety
Discover who we are, what we believe, and why we’re so passionate about helping our customers.
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Getting Up and Running on Ninety
This guide helps you assess whether or not Ninety is right for your organization and provides four paths to get up and running.
Assessments
Awareness of self and others makes realizing your Vision so much easier. Ninety has a growing collection of assessments that help you see where you are now and where to go from there.
Assessments
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Baseline Assessment
We created the Baseline Assessment to help leadership team members understand their organization's current proficiencies across the 9 Core Competencies — the nine areas a business must master to become a great company.
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Org Fitness Review
We recommend all teams take the Org Fitness Review every quarter or at least annually to assess their growth across the 9 Core Competencies.
Culture
It’s difficult to build a great organization without building a great culture first and foremost. Learn how to create and maintain a strong and cohesive culture.
Customer
Great organizations are clear on who they are selling to and what they are selling. Learn how to build great long-term relationships with your Ideal Customers.
Data
Being able to track and act on data is critical for every facet of your organization. Learn how to harness your data to achieve more of what you want with less work.
Briefs
Guides
Enterprise Value
How an organization creates value must be clearly understood and supported by its people, goals, and processes. A great organization is clear on how it creates value for itself and all its stakeholders.
Goals
Setting energizing goals is essential for success. Learn how to craft 90-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 10-year goals that help drive your organization and keep it on course.
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Rocks
Increase accountability by documenting and tracking the progress of your 90-Day Goals with Ninety’s Rocks tool.
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Making Rocks SMART
Using the SMART framework to create 90-Day Goals (Rocks) helps teams and companies effectively work toward their long-term objectives by ensuring goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
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Compelling and Audacious Goals
Compelling and Audacious Goals (CAGs) are ambitious, bold objectives that drive organizations to success, serving as a unifying force and inspiration for team members.
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Lead, Agree, Coach
Great leaders are also great coaches. Leaders have followers because they’re trusted. Learn valuable leadership and coaching skills here.
Meetings
Great organizations are focused, aligned, and thriving. Meetings are essential for reaching this state. Learn how to master staying meaningfully connected.
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Vision and Goal Setting Sessions
Explore the objectives and agendas for the designed meetings to establish your company’s Vision and the various goals needed to make it a reality.
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Annual Planning Meetings
A yearly retrospective and time to plan for new 1-Year Goals, 90-Day Goals (aka Rocks), and their respective KPIs.
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Weekly Team Meetings
Purposeful Weekly Team Meetings are so important to how we operate — this brief describes the seven sections of our default weekly meetings and offers insights into how to make yours thrive.
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Quarterly Planning Meetings
This brief details how to run a Quarterly Planning Meeting for any team in an organization.
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1-on-1 Meetings
Ninety’s 1-on-1 meetings tool helps to facilitate feedback meetings between leaders and their direct reports.
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Foundation Setting Session
When you’re ready to adopt a Business Operating System (BOS), set a Foundation Setting Session.
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State of the Company Meetings
Here’s how to hold an effective State of the Company Meeting to keep your organization aligned.
Guides
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On Quarterly Planning Meetings
The On Quarterly Planning Meetings Guide extensively details how to run a quarterly meeting.
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On Annual Planning Meetings
Annual Planning Meetings keep us on track as we build, operate, and scale — this guide teaches you how.
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On Weekly Team Meetings
Every team should have a dedicated structure to their weekly meeting — this guide shows you how.
People
People are your organization’s greatest asset. Learn how great organizations master the art and science of attracting and retaining Ideal Team Members.
Briefs
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9 Core Competencies
The 9 Core Competencies are the essential skills and disciplines that organizations must master to become great companies and achieve their goals.
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1-on-1 Meetings
Ninety’s 1-on-1 meetings tool helps to facilitate feedback meetings between leaders and their direct reports.
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Responsibilities Chart
A Responsibilities Chart clarifies the Roles and Responsibilities of all team members and ensures accountability within an organization.
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Right Person, Right Seat
The concept of Right Person, Right Seat emphasizes the importance of placing individuals in roles that align with their values, skills, and goals.
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Hard Conversations
Hard conversations are challenging but necessary for maintaining a healthy and functioning workplace — learn the truthful, specific, and positive framework for holding these conversations.
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Competency, Commitment, and Capacity
Process
Mastering processes takes time but is essential if you want to scale without massive pain. Learn how to take your processes from good to great.
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Stages
Every organization passes through the same Stages of Development. Learn how to find your organization's stage and chart a clear course for growth.
Trust
We surround ourselves with people and organizations we trust. Learn how to build high-trust relationships with all your stakeholders.
Vision
Your organization’s Vision should be the North Star for all your people. Ninety has everything you need to craft a compelling Vision that’s embraced by all.
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Vision
Learn to use Ninety’s Vision tool to capture your organization’s Core Values, Purpose/Passion/Just Cause, goals, and more.
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Vision and Goal Setting Sessions
Explore the objectives and agendas for the designed meetings to establish your company’s Vision and the various goals needed to make it a reality.
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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT)
Discover how to complete and document your company’s SWOT analysis in Ninety.
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Focus Filters
Identify your unique Focus Filters and apply them in all aspects of your organization.
Misc. Concepts
We love context-based learning. Here you’ll find an expanding collection of additional concepts that can help your organization turn its Vision into reality.
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Agreements, Expectations, and Commitments
This brief covers the differences between an agreements-based and expectations-based culture — showing that the former yields higher trust and commitment from team members.
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Agreements
An agreements-based culture is key for developing a high-trust company — this brief gives an overview of the concept of establishing essential agreements in your organization.
Misc. Disciplines
Study the greats and you’ll see the power of discipline. Here are some additional disciplines that will help your organization focus, align, and thrive.
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Business Operating System (BOS)
The concepts, tools, and disciplines an organization uses to function form its Business Operating System (BOS) — this brief outline the five categories of BOSs.
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Raise, Discuss, and Resolve (RDR)
This brief describes our in-house process for solving the Issues standing in our way.
Guides
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On BOS Coaches
This guide covers who Business Operating Systems coaches are, what they do, how they help, and offer suggestions to see if one is right for your organization.
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On Business Operating Systems
This guide covers the ins and outs of Business Operating Systems (BOSs) including descriptions of several popular BOSs in use today.
Misc. Tools
Tools make building easier. Here are some other great company-building tools that can help you build an organization that will stand the test of time.
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To-Dos
Ninety’s To-Dos tool makes it easy to keep track of the work that needs to be done this week.
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Issues
Identifying Issues for discussion is a critical function of our meetings to keep our organization on the right track — here’s how to use Ninety’s Issues tool.
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Settings
Personalize your Ninety experience with a host of customizable features in our Settings tool.