Welcome to the 90u Library

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.

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.

Core Values

Discover how Core Values can be harnessed to find the right people and get you closer to your organization’s vision of the future.

On 9 Core Competencies

The 9 Core Competencies are our time-tested lens for assessing the strength of your company-building proficiency.

On Ninety

Discover who we are, what we believe, and why we’re so passionate about helping our customers.

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 on our platform.

Vision Builders Workbook

Extensive resources, insights, and worksheets to document your organization’s Vision.

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.

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.

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

Establishing Core Values fosters trust and creates a thriving environment focusing on growth and positive impact.

Core Values

Discover how Core Values can be harnessed to find the right people and get you closer to your organization’s vision of the future.

Ideal Customers

Learn how to identify and serve your Ideal Customers based on geographic, demographic, and psychographic characteristics.

Customer Journey

Learn the basics of identifying and implementing a customer journey map.

Scorecard

Scorecards show teams the information they need to see to evaluate progress and plan next steps.

Data

Learn the basics of how organizations should think about collecting, using, and sharing their data.

On Data

Explore how to track and analyze data with Scorecards in our Data tool.

Enterprise Value

Increasing your Enterprise Value to grow your company involves understanding how you create value.

Rocks

Increase accountability by documenting and tracking the progress of your 90-Day Goals with Ninety’s Rocks tool.

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.

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.

On Goals

Lead, Agree, Coach (LAC)

Lead, Agree, Coach is a framework for leadership in the 21st century stating that anyone who heads a team must use agreements, be a leader, and be a coach.

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.

Agreements

An agreements-based culture is key for developing a high-trust company — this brief gives an overview of the concept of establishing agreements in your organization.

On Lead, Agree, Coach (LAC)

This in-depth guide teaches the Lead, Agree, Coach framework for leadership, which states that anyone who heads a team must use agreements, be a leader, and be a coach.

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.

Annual Planning Meetings

A yearly retrospective and time to plan for new 1-Year Goals, 90-Day Goals (aka Rocks), and their respective KPIs.

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.

Quarterly Planning Meetings

This brief details how to run a Quarterly Planning Meeting for any team in an organization.

1-on-1 Meetings

Ninety’s 1-on-1 tool facilitates feedback meetings between leaders and their direct reports.

Foundation Setting Session

When you’re ready to adopt a Business Operating System (BOS), set a Foundation Setting Session.

State of the Company Meetings

Here’s how to hold an effective State of the Company Meeting to keep your organization aligned.

On Quarterly Planning Meetings

The On Quarterly Planning Meetings Guide extensively details how to run a quarterly meeting.

On Annual Planning Meetings

Annual Planning Meetings keep us on track as we build, operate, and scale — this guide teaches you how.

On Weekly Team Meetings

Every team should have a dedicated structure to their weekly meeting — this guide shows you how.

1-on-1 Meetings

Ninety’s 1-on-1 tool facilitates feedback meetings between leaders and their direct reports.

Responsibilities Chart

A Responsibilities Chart clarifies the roles and responsibilities of all team members and ensures accountability within an organization.

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.

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.

Competency, Commitment, and Capacity

Our CCC framework helps ensure that your team members are in the Right Seat.

Core Values

Discover how Core Values can be harnessed to find the right people and get you closer to your organization’s vision of the future.

On 9 Core Competencies

The 9 Core Competencies are our time-tested lens for assessing the strength of your company-building proficiency.

Process

The Process tool allows Ninety users to document their proven processes for everyone in the organization to follow.

On Process

Stages of Development

As businesses grow, they go through five identifiable Stages of Development — here’s a crash course on those stages.

On Stages of Development

This guide introduces and thoroughly examines the five Stages of Development businesses go through on their way to becoming thriving companies.

Trust

Trust is extremely important for building working relationships and completing company goals.

Vision

Learn to use Ninety’s Vision tool to capture your organization’s Core Values, Purpose/Passion/Just Cause, goals, and more.

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.

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT)

Discover how to complete and document your company’s SWOT analysis in Ninety.

Focus Filters

Identify your unique Focus Filters and apply them in all aspects of your organization.

Core Values

Discover how Core Values can be harnessed to find the right people and get you closer to your organization’s vision of the future.

Vision Builders Workbook

Extensive resources, insights, and worksheets to document your organization’s Vision.

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.

Agreements

An agreements-based culture is key for developing a high-trust company — this brief gives an overview of the concept of establishing agreements in your organization.

Work 9.0 - The New Age of Work

This guide covers many of our philosophies surrounding work — its value, future, and meaning.

On Ninety

Discover who we are, what we believe, and why we’re so passionate about helping our customers.

Business Operating System (BOS)

The concepts, tools, and disciplines an organization uses to function form its Business Operating System (BOS). This brief outlines the five categories of BOSs.

Raise, Discuss, and Resolve (RDR)

This brief describes our in-house process for solving the Issues standing in our way.

Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed (RACI)

On BOS Coaches

This guide covers who Business Operating Systems coaches are, what they do, and how they help — and offers suggestions to see if engaging one is right for your organization.

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.

To-Dos

Ninety’s To-Dos tool makes it easy to keep track of the work that needs to be done this week.

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.

Settings

Personalize your Ninety experience with a host of customizable features in our Settings tool.

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 on our platform.