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Jessica Wishart

Jessica is Senior Product Manager at Rhythm Systems. She has experience in Client Services and Rhythm software technical support. Her background is in Organizational Execution.

Execute Your Annual Plan With Top-Rated Strategic Planning Software

Discover how top-rated strategic planning software can help your organization achieve effective ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Software Solutions

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Which Software is Best for Annual Planning?

Find the perfect tool for your annual planning needs. Compare top software options and streamline ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Software Solutions

5 Reasons Why You Need KPIs

Why are KPIs important? Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used by businesses to measure their ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Strategy Execution

KPI Examples for Employees in 2024: Key Performance Indicator Examples for Employees

KPIs are an essential tool for measuring employee performance. In this article, we share examples ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Leading KPI Indicators: How to Create a Leading KPI with Examples

Leading Indicator KPIs can help predict what will happen in the future. They let you know if you ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Daily Huddle Template and Team Huddle Examples in 2024

mprove team communication with a daily huddle template. Discover real-world examples and strategies ...

Effective Meetings

Accountability Examples: How to Use the 5 Cs of Team Accountability

Developing accountable leaders and teams is key to consistently achieving growth goals for ...

Strategy Execution

Effective Meetings

3-Year Strategic Plan: for Business Growth in 2025 and Beyond

Explore our '3 Year Strategic Plan Example PDF' for a strategic approach to business growth. Get ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategic Planning

Beyond Skillsets: Embracing Curiosity as a Strategic Leadership Imperative

Explore the vital role of curiosity for CEOs and leaders, driving innovation, building ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Innovative Solutions For Your Trickiest People Problems

Transform people problems into growth opportunities by clarifying roles, providing feedback, and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

High-Performance Solutions

Zoom Icebreakers: Comprehensive List of 5 Minute Ice Breakers for Meetings in 2024

Looking for fun and engaging ways to start your virtual meetings in 2023? Our comprehensive list of ...

Effective Meetings

Tips & Strategies

Monthly Meeting Agenda: Updated 2024 Template

One of the many things I get to do in my role here at Rhythm Systems is work with our CEO Patrick ...

Effective Meetings

Biggest Business Challenges: Insights and Solutions New Research Data for 2024

Discover the biggest business challenges faced by companies in 2023. Our research provides insights ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution

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Mastering Goal Execution in 2024: A Proven Rhythm Systems Approach

Unlock the full potential of your goals in 2024 by starting with a solid plan of SMART goals, ...

Strategy Execution

Goal Planning

Manufacturing KPI Dashboard: 25 KPI Examples for 2025

Discover essential manufacturing KPIs to drive performance and efficiency with examples and ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Change Management Process: Expectation vs. Reality

As a leader, you have to take the long view and find ways to bring the rest of the organization ...

Strategy Execution

Game-Changing Software to Bring Your Annual Plan to Life

Rhythm Systems offers a software solution to enhance annual planning, helping mid-market companies ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Rhythm System Software

Annual Targets 2024: How to Set Performance Targets

A performance target is a goal or objective that an individual sets for themselves. In business, ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

KPIs & Dashboards

Quarterly Planning Meetings: How Top CEOs Prepare for a Great Quarterly Plan in 2024

Quarterly planning sessions are an important part of any business, as they provide the opportunity ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Rhythm Systems Introduces The First AI-Driven Business Coach for Strategy Execution

Our AI-powered business coach leverages two decades of knowledge and expertise to bring the market ...

Strategy Execution

Rhythm System Software

Top 10 Business Problems CEOs are Facing Today [Infographic]

Being CEO can be a lonely job – it can feel like everyone is looking to you to have the all the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Ditch Your OKR Spreadsheets: Upgrade to Intelligent OKR Software in 2023

OKR spreadsheets are helpful to get your started with OKRs. However, as you grow you may need a ...

Strategies for Growth

How to Pressure Test Your Business Strategic Annual Plan

Have confidence in your strategic plan by ensuring you are meeting your financial goals, focusing ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Halftime Adjustments: Mid-Year Planning is Critical in 2023

That's why now is the perfect time to revisit your 2023 plans. Like making a halftime locker room ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

2023 Breakthrough Conference Recap: Moving Forward Together

Experience the energy from the Rhythm community! We gathered in Charlotte, NC, for our 7th Annual ...

How to Keep Your Top Talent: 12 Actionable Tips for Engaging Talent

You have to give your top talent compelling reasons to stay, or you will just keep wasting ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

KPI Audit: Measure What Matters in 2023 with Complete KPI Audit with Examples

We recommend tracking 8-12 KPIs at a time, but it is easy to fall victim to KPI creep. If your list ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Making Plan Adjustments: The What, When & How to Make Adjustments

You’ve got your quarterly plan, and it just doesn’t seem to be going, well, according to plan. ...

Strategy Execution

5 OKR Examples for the Service Industry

To succeed in today's marketplace, you need to balance goals that drive profits or operational ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution

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BHAG Examples for Setting your Big Hairy Audacious Goals

Explore these classic BHAG examples in the Target Oriented, Competitive, Role Model, and Internal ...

Strategies for Growth

Using Rhythm for Project Management

While Rhythm is primarily a tool for managing strategic initiatives, some enhanced features make it ...

Strategy Execution

OKR vs KPI: What's the Difference Between OKRs and KPIs? (With Examples)

OKR vs KPI:: In today's business world, there are many ways to measure success. Two common ways are ...

KPIs & Dashboards

OKRs

CEO Scorecards: CEO KPI Examples from CEO Balanced Scorecards

As a general rule, CEOs need easy access to a few key performance indicators—they need a KPI that ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Accountability Culture: 5 Things All Accountable Cultures Need (Infographic)

Accountability can be a scary word. For many, it sounds punitive - and that’s because most of us ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

OKR Examples For Non-Profits

Often, people think of OKRs as a tool for tech companies. However, the application of rigorous goal ...

OKRs

Non Profits

2023 Strategic Planning Template

Your job as CEO or executive leader is to provide direction for the 2021 strategy and help your ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Strategy Execution

Meeting Planning Checklist: The Meeting Preparation Checklist for Effective Meetings

Use a meeting planning checklist to ensure that your meetings are productive and achieve the ...

Effective Meetings

Weekly Staff Meeting: Time for a Meeting Makeover in 2023 [Infographic]

The question is, are your weekly staff meetings drab—or fab? Are they an anchor around your team’s ...

Effective Meetings

Job Scorecard Examples and Template (Updated for 2024)

The best way to understand what each Job Scorecard entails is to see an example. My own manager, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Leadership Meetings in 2024: Align Your Team and Engage Employees Monthly with this Agenda

A monthly leadership meeting agenda should include three main components: objectives, action items, ...

Effective Meetings

Accountable Leaders & Teams

40 KPI Examples for the Service Industry in 2025

Many of our middle-market clients are in service industries. As these companies experience rapid ...

KPIs & Dashboards

What Leaders Need to Know about Giving and Receiving Feedback (Infographic)

Effectively giving and receiving feedback is one of the most important skills a leader must have to ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Meeting Audit in 2023: Stop Wasting Precious Time

As we head into 2021, now is the perfect time to step back and take a hard look at your team's ...

Effective Meetings

Scaleable Processes: How to Make Scalable Process Improvements in 2023

If you are trying to grow with purpose, making process improvements that will eliminate waste, add ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution

Hybrid Meeting Norms: Best Practices for Hybrid Team Meetings

As some teams head back into the office, many are facing a unique challenge for the first time - ...

Effective Meetings

Simplify Your Employee Performance Reviews with an Employee Review System

Using Rhythm already simplifies performance conversations because you are sharing progress and ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Effective Meetings

and more

KPI Examples for Accountable Team Leaders

Discover essential KPIs for team leaders to drive performance and improve leadership skills, ...

KPIs & Dashboards

High-Performance Solutions

Strategic Planning During COVID-19 Pandemic: Business Planning for 2023

Strategic planning in the midst of these unprecedented times is a real challenge. Having an outside ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Listen Up - A Critical Leadership Skill We Often Take For Granted

If you are a manager, effective listening can help you unlock the keys to employee engagement and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Planning Meeting Agenda for 2024: Conduct an Effective Planning Session

You can make an argument that your company’s annual planning meeting is the most important thing ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

How to Conduct a Meeting Audit to Eliminate Waste

After implementing the meeting rhythm we recommend for optimal operation of your business, you ...

Strategy Execution

Effective Meetings

5 Signs You Need Strategy Execution Software

Systems must also grow as companies achieve success. Learn to identify signs your company is mature ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution

CEO Daily Routines: Successful CEOs Daily Schedule (Infographic)

As a CEO, you have a lot of demands on your time, but managing your day effectively so that you are ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams

How to Make Better Business Decisions in Your Next Strategic Planning Session

Companies are already starting their Annual Strategic Planning process for 2023. Learn how getting ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

5 Essential Software Tools to Get Your Business Through Tough Economic Times

Ensure you are positioning your company well to withstand uncertain times with the capital to ...

Strategies for Growth

OKR Software: 5 OKR Pitfalls To Avoid

OKRs are an effective system used by many organizations. Learn common pitfalls and areas where ...

Strategies for Growth

How to Cascade Your Strategic Plan (Infographic)

Daily and weekly execution habits that drive the company plan forward hinge on successfully ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Measurable Criteria for Employee Recognition: Samples, Ideas and KPIs for Rewards

Mapping out employee recognition systems can improve retention, increase productivity and boost ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Strengthsfinder for Teams: Engage Your Team By Focusing on Their Strengths

If you interested in learning more about StrengthsFinder and how this tool can help boost ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Shoot For Shoes to Help Our Neighbors in Need

Learn how Samaritan's Feet, our Breakthrough Conference Charity Partner, works tirelessly to ...

Go the Second Mile

Continuous and Never-Ending Improvement to Scale Your Company

For any growing business, ensuring that you have the processes in place to “scale up” (as Verne ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution

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Virtual Strategic Planning Sessions: 7 Tips for Great Strategic Zoom Meetings

If you are like many of our clients, you may be considering adjusting travel plans for your team in ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Align People: Get Everyone on the Same Page with Alignment Meetings

The leaders in your strategic planning sessions share decisions with the rest of the company; if ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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Examples of Core Competencies in Business to Innovate Growth in 2023

Business Competencies Examples. In our fast-moving world of innovation, some may wonder if it is ...

Strategies for Growth

Quick Tips to Set SMART Goals [Infographic]

In your next quarterly planning session, set aside some extra time to be sure that your goals (your ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

KPIs & Dashboards

Cross Functional Coordination: How to Manage Cross Functional Teams

According to the research, there are some pretty specific conditions to avoid and behaviors to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

The Right Meeting Rhythm Will Set You Free! (Infographic)

What's the secret to setting up the right meeting rhythm so you can maximize productive time ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Effective Meetings

4 Essentials for Successful Hybrid Work

It's safe to say at this point that hybrid work is here to stay. While it offers some clear ...

Brand Promise Examples: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (Updated for 2023)

What makes a Great Brand Promise good is not only its appeal to your Core Customer but also your ...

Strategies for Growth

Cross-Functional Alignment Simplified

Here are 3 successful patterns we've seen with our clients to achieve cross-functional alignment.

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Why Meetings are not Productive: Bad Meetings Kill Productivity

According to Inc.com, most meetings are not productive. How productive are your weekly meetings? Is ...

Effective Meetings

How to Use Job Scorecard KPIs to Drive Your Performance

I’ve noticed that many of our clients get stuck filling out the Job Scorecard template. To be ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Strategic Questions for 2023 and Beyond

Stop playing the never-ending game of whack of mole. Move forward in a meaningful way when you use ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Strategy Execution

How to Bargain Nicely: 6 Ways to Negotiate Without Being a Jerk

Many of us believe in a false dichotomy about negotiations: either you have to be really tough, or ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Spring Is Here! Time to Refresh Your Goals

Let's take a look at each goal type and run through a checklist as the first quarter comes to a ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

How to Make Team Meetings More Engaging: Increase Engagement in Staff Meetings

If you have a lack of engagement in your weekly team meeting, you have a problem. You aren’t ...

Effective Meetings

Leadership Means Learning from Mistakes

Show leadership by creating a culture where your team members learn from mistakes.

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Follow Up: The Key To Leadership Development

The study reflects that leadership development is a process, not an event… something we say all the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Weekly Update Meetings vs. Weekly Status Meetings (Infographic)

Replace boring status update meetings with Weekly Adjustment Meetings that energize your team ...

Effective Meetings

Clear Expectations: How Your Employees Know What Success Looks Like

Why is it so important to set clear expectations for your company's goals? It takes a long time to ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Strategy Execution

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OKR vs KPI vs MBO: What the Best Goal Types Have in Common

Businesses looking to implement goal setting best practices are often drowning in a sea of acronyms ...

KPIs & Dashboards

OKRs

5 Simple Tests: How to Know If Your Core Values Need Work

Core Values aren't just a box to check as you work through your strategy. They're foundational to ...

Strategies for Growth

7 Job Skills for the Future

As things have changed so dramatically and we are all forced to think about the future of work, ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams

11 Books for Every CEO's Summer Reading List

With life returning to normal for many people, lots of us will be traveling or taking much needed ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution

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KPI Examples for Non-Profits

Running a non-profit is different from running a business in some important ways, but the critical ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Maximize Your Zoom Weekly Meeting

Many aspects of remote work are much more effective, and one of them is the weekly team meeting. ...

Effective Meetings

A Players: Attracting, Engaging and Keeping Topgrading A Players

While we know what to do with A Players (grow them) and C Players (fire them), it can be tricky ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

6 Tips for Accountable Leadership [Infographic]

As a leader, it is your responsibility to create a culture where accountability can thrive. You ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Improve Multiple Departmental Processes That Cross Multiple Teams

How do you successfully change a system that impacts multiple departments? We used a Think Plan Do ...

Strategy Execution

Zoom Facilitation: Host a Virtual Meeting Like a Pro

As the facilitator, you have to create the meeting space with intention. Just as you might have ...

Effective Meetings

CEO Secret Weapon: Simple, Proven System for Success

We’ve distilled the most important factors to building a great company of aligned teams who execute ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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Preparation is Key: 21 Quotes to Inspire Your Planning Process

It got me thinking about how critical it is to prepare well for strategic planning, especially as ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Improve Team Mental Health with Your Weekly Meeting

A recent survey from SHRM found, "Work-related concerns left more than 40 percent of employees ...

Effective Meetings

Done! How to Close Out a Quarter

In order to get better at quarterly planning and execution, it’s a critical step to pause and ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

BHAG Exercise: How to Have the Right Discussions to Get to Your BHAG

If you are still feeling stuck, we have a tool that can help you have the right discussions to get ...

Strategies for Growth

Effective Leadership Development [Infographic]

Leadership development is a growing concern for middle market companies. Growing your leaders is a ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Revenue Growth Strategy: 9 Steps to Create a New Revenue Growth Plan

Companies in today's competitive landscape have to be disciplined about anticipating what's next ...

Strategies for Growth

Are You Struggling to Move Your Company Forward?

If you are struggling to move your company’s strategy forward, consider employing the 5Cs, ...

Strategy Execution

How Your Attachment Style Shows Up at Work: The 4 Attachment Styles

Here are the 4 attachment styles and how they may show up at work. This may help you as a leader ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

The 5Cs of Communication: How to Use Them in Crisis Communication

If you are like me, your inbox is full of COVID-19 response letters from every vendor, doctor, ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams

What Drives Your BHAG's Economic Engine? Profit per X Examples

Your Profit/X or financial engine is one of the components of Collins’ Hedgehog, and one of the ...

Strategies for Growth

4 Tips to Improve Your Company's Focus

Focus is key in achieving your goals for your company. In our Rhythm methodology, the best practice ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Patterns in Core Values of Manufacturing Companies (Infographic)

What do successful manufacturing companies have in common when it comes to how they do what they ...

Strategies for Growth

Crucial Conversation Skills: Manage Your Emotions When Stakes Are High

Our team recently participated in a day and half of training on Crucial Conversations in which we ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Customer KPI Examples: Are Your Customers Happy?

Here are 8 ideas for Customer KPIs to get you thinking about what the right metrics might be for ...

Increasing Sales

KPIs & Dashboards

Productivity Checklist: How to Have Your Most Productive Week

Productivity is really about getting things done with intention and attention. In a nutshell, to ...

Strategy Execution

Effective Meetings

Personal Capacity Building: 6 Tips to Double It

Our coaches here at Rhythm Systems are always trying to help our clients think about the future of ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Why You Need Rhythm Software to Implement the Rockefeller Habits (Infographic)

The 3 Rockefeller Habits (the Quarterly Rock, the Right Data, and the Right Meeting Rhythms) are ...

Strategies for Growth

KPIs & Dashboards

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Common Purpose: Why It Matters

While it is the responsibility of individual workers to come with the commitment to create purpose ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams

From Planning to Execution: Shifting From Strategic Planning To Execution

While it might seem easy to shift from planning to execution for tactical goals, when your goals ...

Strategy Execution

How Chick-Fil-A Uses Customer Delight as a Competitive Advantage

Consider these guidelines and the example of Chick-Fil-A. What’s your customer service strategy ...

Increasing Sales

How to Win with Red-Yellow-Green (Slideshare)

Using Red-Yellow-Green success criteria will help you execute your quarterly plan with precision ...

KPIs & Dashboards

5 Integration Mistakes that Could Sink Your Business Acquisition and Integration

Failure to successfully integrate the business acquisition you just spent months negotiating can ...

Mergers & Acquisitions

Leadership's Role in Team Accountability [Infographic]

Accountability is the foundation for performance. Team accountability impacts your team’s results. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

10 Signs of an Accountable Culture (Infographic)

Team accountability is something we have to intentionally build into our culture of accountability. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Leadership and Levels and Styles of Decision Making [Video]

One key function of leadership is the ability to make decisions; this is paramount to successfully ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Be a Better Leader by Clock Building vs. Telling Time

Instead of getting bogged down in day to day decisions, great leaders focus on aligning the company ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Quick Guide to Rhythm Goal Types

When you are recording your quarterly plan in Rhythm, do you ever wonder what should go where?

Strategy Execution

My Productivity Experiment (Infographic)

I realized that I know all the expert tips for increased productivity, but I don’t necessarily ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Red-Yellow-Green... Gray? The 'Not Started' Status

We believe in using Red-Yellow-Green status criteria as a critical element of creating a plan with ...

Creating a World Class Employee Experience: Lessons from Anytime Fitness CEO

The world class customer service experience starts with designing a world class employee ...

Increasing Sales

Strategies for Growth

and more

5 Tips for Facilitating a Meeting with Virtual Participants

Anyone who has dialed into a meeting virtually knows that it is not always as enjoyable or ...

Strategy Execution

Effective Meetings

Growth Summit: Questions to Consider after Annual Planning

At the Fortune Growth Summit in Phoenix this past October, the speakers raised several interesting ...

Strategy Execution