Want to implement EOS, but finding it a bit daunting? We’ve got your back. We built this wiki to organize our most helpful insights for your EOS implementation journey.
In this wiki you’ll find insights about EOS, how we use the tools, and advice about how to approach organizing yourself and your team. As EOS enthusiasts and entrepreneurs, our approach will feel very familiar to fellow business owners — very earnest, pretty flexible, and aiming toward *calm* growth above all.
We’re writing for fellow business owners and their teams who are excited to learn how to implement EOS. We want to save you from making any of the mistakes we’ve already made, and help you row in the same direction sooner 🙂
We hope you find it helpful! For more awesome resources, check out the amazing library from EOS Worldwide!
Jump to:
- Getting Started/Overviews
- V/TO
- Accountability Chart
- Level 10 Meeting aka L10 Meeting
- Scorecard
- Rocks
- Issues
- Culture Tools
- To Dos/Tasks/Projects/Processes
Getting Started/Overviews
What is a Business Operating System – a high level view of what a business operating system is and why it’s awesome to have one.
How to Build a Business Operating System – a guide to a commonsense approach for building a BOS piece by piece.
Red Flags of an EOS Implementation Failure – if you feel your EOS implementation going off-track, check out these red flags and how to correct them.
Overcoming EOS implementation challenges at your SMB – for SMB owners whose implementation feels like a struggle.
V/TO
Business vision statement and mission statement: guide and examples – getting your vision and mission can be tougher than you think, so we broke it down in this guide.
EOS Core Values Tool – Cheesy or Not? – a fun exploration from our CEO on why you should do more than pay lip service to your core values: you should say them with your chest!
Strety’s Complete EOS Core Process Guide: How to Document Your Core Processes – just how the title sounds! A comprehensive guide to help you get your core processes on lock.
BONUS: The 2 things we won’t do as a company – a real-life explanation of Strety’s Core Focus.
Accountability Chart
How to Make an Org Chart (+ Google Sheet template) – An EOS Accountability Chart is not exactly an org chart, but it helps to have the reference. See how you can do either one here.
L10 Meeting
Leadership Meetings: Agenda & Topic Ideas – an in-depth breakdown of leadership meetings, including the amazing L10 Meeting™.
How to Run an Effective Team Meeting – tips to make your meetings even better.
Prepare for Team Meetings: 5 Keys to Building Impactful Agendas – tips for making your agendas must-haves instead of what-now?s.
My Favorite EOS® Tool: the L10 Meeting – our CEO waxes poetic about why the Level 10 Meeting is so powerful and how the Strety team adjusts it to suit our teams (don’t yell at us, EOS Pure friends!!).
Scorecard
How to Keep Scorecards Relevant and Fresh in Your Business – an overview of the EOS scorecard, how it helps, and how to make sure your Scorecards are actually impactuful.
Rocks
How to Run a Midyear Review Meeting that Revitalizes Performance – checking your Rocks and yearly goals to make sure they’re on track.
Set Employee Performance Goals that Get Your Business Further, Faster – not all Rocks are company-level: make sure you have some for your employee too!
Having goals that move the needle for your business – make sure that you’re setting your team up for success with Rocks that actually move the needle.
Quarterly Meetings are Critical – where you should be checking in about your quarterly Rocks and more.
Issues
How to Handle Company Issues with Less Stress and Mess – get your IDS on with this primer on how to solve Issues.
Communication/Culture Tools
Lumped these together because communication is a huge part of culture — and building a great culture is a huge benefit of EOS!
Use the EOS Culture Checkup™ to nurture your people – an overview and how-to on using the EOS Culture Checkup — a must-have tool that’s easier than it seems at first glance, promise!
Cascading messages: how and when to share communications – a guide on how to “spread true rumors” to make sure your internal communications are under control.
Tips to keep your team engaged – we’ve thought a lot about employee engagement over the years (it’s one of the biggest lever in your business!) and compiled some of our favorite tips.
Questions to Ask for Magic One-on-One Meetings – you know you need to do 1:1 meetings, but don’t know what to ask? Here ya go!
10 Tips for Better One-on-One Meetings – more 1:1 meeting love 🙂
To Dos/Tasks/Projects/Process
Documenting and getting s*** done!
Project management tips and tricks – whether it’s a Rock or a Strety Project, these tips should help you crush it!
Announcing Strety Projects – all about our new (as of 2025) Project tool and how it can power your Rocks.
How I Planned My Maternity Leave Using Playbooks – a guide for making Playbooks (pretty meta) that can be applied to your other process documentation needs.
Missing something you wish you had more insight on? Write to Samantha at strety dot com to request a blog/suggest a topic. We can’t coach you through an implementation (you can find an awesome EOS implementer for that) but we are here to try to make your life easier!
