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Execution Pact

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The agreement about who owns what, what happens when commitments are missed, and how progress stays visible.

Overview

The Execution Pact governs delivery: clarity of ownership, the consistency of the response when commitments slip, and the quality of decisions made in the room.

Weak execution pacts rarely fail on capability. They fail on ambiguity — overlapping ownership, unspoken assumptions about who decides, and meetings that end without captured decisions.

Peer accountability is the hardest element. It requires that holding a colleague to a commitment is normal rather than an act of aggression.

Signs of strength

  • •No gaps or overlaps in ownership
  • •A consistent, proportionate response to missed commitments
  • •Decisions captured and actioned after meetings
  • •Peers challenge each other without relational cost

Signs of strain

  • •Recurring items that never close
  • •Accountability escalated to the leader rather than held between peers
  • •Different recollections of what was decided
  • •Progress visible only when asked for

Questions worth asking

  • “What did we commit to last quarter and what actually happened?”
  • “What happens here when someone misses a commitment?”
  • “Who decides, and who is consulted?”

Workshop agenda

Half day (3.5 hours)

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Outcome: A clean ownership map, an agreed accountability response, and a redesigned meeting decision protocol.

  1. 0:00

    Frame & data walk-through

    Review Execution Pact scores and where alignment is weakest.

  2. 0:25

    Commitment audit

    List commitments made in the last two quarters. Mark delivered, partial, or dropped. Discuss patterns, not people.

  3. 1:00

    Ownership map

    Map key outcomes to single owners. Surface every overlap and gap on the wall.

  4. 1:30

    Break

    15 minutes.

  5. 1:45

    The missed-commitment protocol

    Design the team's standard response: who raises it, when, how, and what escalation looks like.

  6. 2:20

    Meeting redesign

    Rework the standing agenda: decision log, owner, date, and visible progress.

  7. 2:55

    Peer accountability practice

    Paired live practice: hold a peer to a real commitment. Observers give feedback.

  8. 3:20

    Commitments

    Each member names one commitment they will be held to before the next session.

Materials

Commitment log · Ownership map template · Decision log format

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