Run the week instead of the week running you
The Weekly Operating Routine gives your team a rhythm that keeps everyone aligned, accountable, and moving forward - without you chasing anyone.
Get the implementation guide, plus meeting agendas and tracker.
Enough with the chaos. There is a better way.
Whether you want a business that runs itself, a quarterly plan that gets executed like clockwork, or weeks where momentum compounds instead of resetting on Monday - each one requires the same thing: a set of best operating practices that run the week. That set is the Weekly Operating Routine.
You know this week
You relay what needs to happen to each person. You set their priorities and still handle your own work. A staff member goes quiet on an action item. A meeting gets moved because one person couldn't make it. Small problems get bigger than they should. You find out about the fire after it spread. The meetings that were supposed to fix all this became one more thing to drag along, and by Friday you are the only one who knows where everything stands.
That's not a people problem. You are missing the operating routine that runs the week for you.
What changes when you run the routine
- You walk into every meeting with everyone already prepared, and you did not spend your week preparing them.
- You know what is on track and off track every week without asking.
- Problems surface while you can still do something about them.
- Your team works with more coordination and less supervision.
- You stop carrying the business in your head. The routine holds it for you.
- The priorities you set in planning make it to Friday, every week.
What you get
- The Weekly Operating Routine Guide: the five components, how to set up each one, an 8-week rollout for you and a 4-phase rollout for your team
- The Weekly Alignment Meeting agenda: the 50-minute meeting that runs the business, with the time box for each section
- The Weekly Individual Meeting agenda: the one-on-one that keeps each direct report moving
- The Priority Tracker: one page for your Rocks, KPIs, and this week's priorities
I'm Nick Berry. I built the Weekly Operating Routine inside my own companies, where it kept a staff of 45 working on the right priorities every week. It gave us more coordination with less supervision, and it's the same routine I set up with the founders I advise as part of the Business Alignment System™. I'm the founder of Redesigned.Business and host of The Business Owner's Journey podcast.
Work the routine and the plan works.