Coaching practices for Execution Score

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Execution Score, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• The results are still nowhere in sight so I can’t tell if I’m actually doing the work or just busy, and I keep letting myself off the hook
• My progress lives buried in some spreadsheet I never open, so day to day I genuinely have no idea whether I’m winning or losing on this goal
• I lost, so I’ve written the whole thing off as a failure
• It went well so I assumed I did everything right and moved on
• I measure myself purely by the scoreboard

Practices that may help

1. Score your weekly execution
   Rate the percentage of planned actions you completed each week, and aim high.
   The 12 Week Year, Made Practical
2. Keep a visible, compelling scoreboard
   Create a simple, always-visible scoreboard showing lead and lag measures — so you always know if you’re winning.
   The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
3. Review process goal execution separately from outcomes after each performance
   Evaluate how well you executed your process goals independently of whether you won or lost.
   Process Goals, Made Practical
4. Debrief against process goals, not just the outcome
   After performance, evaluate whether you executed your process goals before evaluating the result.
   Process vs. Outcome Goals in Sport and Performance
5. Define success by growth and contribution, not scorekeeping
   Shifting the success metric from achievement tallies to personal growth and impact changes what you optimise for — usually for the better.
   Goal-Free Living: When Process Beats Destination
6. The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
   The 4 Disciplines of Execution (McChesney, Covey & Huling) is an organizational strategy framework built around four practices: focus on a wildly important goal, act on lead measures, keep a compelling scoreboard, and create a cadence of accountability. Evidence is primarily organizational case studies and observational data; controlled trials on the framework as a whole are limited, but the individual components (implementation intentions, feedback loops, social accountability) have broader research support.
7. Calibrate stretch with a target score
   Aim where hitting ~70% is a strong result, so comfort means you aimed too low.
   OKRs for People, Not Just Companies
8. Track the accuracy of your domain predictions
   Keep a record of what you predicted in your area of claimed expertise and score it.
   The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Understood Clearly
9. Confidence-accuracy gap tracking
   After each test, compute and record the gap between your predicted and actual scores.
   Feeling of Knowing: Why Your Confidence Misleads You
10. Score decision quality separately from outcome quality
    Judge the process you used — not whether it worked — when you review a past decision.
    Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time

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