One of the most important decisions a business leader faces when deciding to run on EOS is how to go about it: self-implement or work with an EOS Implementer. This blog explores why choosing an EOS Implementer can make all the difference, helping your leadership team get the full value of EOS, avoid common pitfalls, and experience lasting results.
More Than a Facilitator
A good EOS Implementer is more than a facilitator who flips through the pages of Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman. A great EOS Implementer is a teacher, coach, and facilitator who delivers something far more valuable: they challenge you, hold up the mirror, and help you face the uncomfortable truths about your leadership, team, and business.
And with the right EOS Implementer, your leadership team will:
- Align around a clear vision
- Own outcomes instead of pointing fingers
- Eliminate silos, confusion, and drama
- Build real accountability across the organization
- Make faster, smarter decisions
- Solve issues at the root
- Get unstuck and grow with confidence
EOS Implementers are rigorously trained and continually sharpen their skills. They’re challenged by EOS veterans to get better every day and serve with integrity in weekly training calls, Quarterly Collaborative Exchanges, Cohorts, and “T-Groups.”
Related Reading: Why Self-Implementing EOS Is So Hard (And Often a Poor Use of Leadership’s Time)
The Courage to Enter the Danger
EOS Implementers don’t dictate answers. Instead, they create the space for you to discover the truth yourself. And when you see it—when you finally admit what must change—your EOS Implementer is there to help you act. They draw on their own experience of being in the trenches of leadership and share how they’ve walked through similar struggles.
But let’s be clear: that takes courage. Every time an EOS Implementer asks the question no one wants to ask, refuses to let a leadership team stay in denial, pushes for accountability when it would be easier to look away, that’s courage.
And it’s not courage for courage’s sake. It’s courage for the sake of the people who depend on you. Because every leadership team decision ripples outward.
The Ripple Effect of Leadership
When a leader gets healthier, stronger, and more focused, their company gets healthier too. And when the company grows stronger, every employee feels it. Jobs become more stable. Careers grow. Families thrive. Communities benefit.
That’s the ripple effect of EOS. For every employee, there are five more people counting on them—spouses, kids, parents, friends, and neighbors. The EOS Implementer who has the courage to help you face reality is ultimately serving all of them.
And that’s why choosing the right EOS Implementer matters.
Choosing Your EOS Implementer
If you want someone who will keep things comfortable, you can find that in an employee. If you want someone who will keep your meetings on track, that’s not that hard to do. But if you want someone who will challenge you and push you to be the leader your people deserve, then choose an EOS Implementer with the courage to face danger.
To find the right EOS Implementer for your team, you have two ways to get started:
- Browse the EOS Implementer Directory to connect directly with an EOS Implementer.
- Schedule a 15-minute match call with the EOS team. We’ll learn about your challenges, where you are on your EOS journey, and your goals, and recommend the best-fit EOS Implementer for your leadership team.
However you choose to connect, the first step is simple, and it’s one you’ll be glad you took for the future of your business.
