Is EOS worth it for a 50 person company?

For many owner-led businesses it gives the leadership team a useful rhythm. The common gap is culture reaching the front line, which is where a strategy and culture offsite can complement it.

What are the alternatives to EOS?

Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits), OKRs, or a lighter approach: a one-page plan, behaviours, and a page per leader, reviewed monthly. They can also be combined. EOS vs OKRs vs Scaling Up

What do you do after graduating from an EOS implementer?

Many teams self-run EOS. A facilitated annual session every year or two keeps it fresh, and is the natural place to revisit core values and how they show up on the floor.

Running EOS? Keep It. Add the Culture Half

Running EOS? Keep it. Add the culture half.

Short answer

If EOS, Scaling Up or OKRs are working for your leadership team, keep them. Where they often stall is the front line: core values that don't change behaviour, and a vision only the leadership team can recite. GetSorted's two days can replace your annual planning session and take the plan and the behaviours to everyone.

How the three pages map to EOS

GetSorted	EOS	What we add
Where we're going	Vision/Traction Organizer, 1-year plan, Rocks	Written so the front line can say it back
How we roll	Core values	Values rewritten as behaviours for a busy Tuesday
What's my part	Rocks and the Accountability Chart	One page per leader, tied to the behaviours
Recall test	Scorecard	A measure of whether the plan reached the people

How the 90 days fit your rhythm

The 90 days run inside your existing meetings, not beside them. The three priorities become Rocks, the behaviours go on the agenda of your L10s, and the day 90 recall check lands in your quarterly. Recall is measured for site crews and front-line staff as well as team leaders.

When it fits

You've graduated from your implementer and run EOS yourselves
The leadership team is aligned, but the front line isn't
Your annual planning session has become routine

When it doesn't

If EOS is working all the way to the front line, you don't need us. Stay on it.

Questions people ask

Is EOS worth it for a 50 person company?: For many owner-led businesses it gives the leadership team a useful rhythm. The common gap is culture reaching the front line, which is where a strategy and culture offsite can complement it.
What are the alternatives to EOS?: Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits), OKRs, or a lighter approach: a one-page plan, behaviours, and a page per leader, reviewed monthly. They can also be combined. EOS vs OKRs vs Scaling Up
What do you do after graduating from an EOS implementer?: Many teams self-run EOS. A facilitated annual session every year or two keeps it fresh, and is the natural place to revisit core values and how they show up on the floor.

How the three pages map to EOS

How the 90 days fit your rhythm

When it fits

When it doesn't

Questions people ask

Use the two days as your annual planning session.