Meet the Author:
Tommy Mains

Ninety's vision to be a trusted brand, learning platform, and tool for helping small businesses inspired Tommy to join the Education team as a Content Writer. Previously, he worked as a freelance writer and high school English teacher. Tommy is a lifelong learner who hopes to bring clarity to everything he writes. He lives in Missouri with his wife and two children.

Resources by Tommy Mains

Brief

Concepts, Tools, and Disciplines

Learn how concepts, tools, and disciplines can improve work throughout your organization to help your teams focus, align, and thrive.
Brief, People, Core Resource

Trust

This brief combines advice from business coaches and research into trust and work.
Brief, People

Ideal Stakeholders

Just as you can pinpoint Ideal Customer personas, you can create better connections by understanding your ideal fit in other stakeholder ...
Brief, People

Competency, Commitment, and Capacity

Learn how to determine fitness for a Seat by analyzing the competency, commitment, and capacity (CCC) the Seat demands.
Brief, People, Lead, Agree, Coach

Hard Conversations

Learn how approaching hard conversations in a truthful, specific, and positive manner helps foster a high-trust environment.
Brief, People, Structure

Right Person, Right Seat

The concept of Right Person, Right Seat emphasizes the importance of placing individuals in roles that align with their values, skills, and ...
Brief, Vision

Focus Filters

This brief will provide you with the framework needed to identify your unique Focus Filters and apply them in all aspects of your ...
Brief, Customer

Customer Journey

This brief defines the basic terms of modern customer journey maps to help you turn clients into loyal fans of your brand.
Brief, Core Resource

9 Core Competencies

Discover the nine essential skills and disciplines organizations need to master to become great companies.
Brief, Meetings

Vision and Goals Setting Meetings

The Vision and Goal Setting Meetings help companies plan their vision and set goals to turn that into reality.
Brief, Vision, Customer

Compelling Value Proposition

We’ve identified four Compelling Value Propositions that great companies use to serve their Ideal Customers and separate themselves from ...
Brief, Enterprise Value

Enterprise Value

This brief offers an overview of Enterprise Value, one of the 9 Core Competencies of great organizations.
Brief, Meetings

State of the Company Meetings

Learn how holding transparent, informational State of the Company Meetings once a quarter builds up trust throughout your organization.
Guide, Tool, Core Resource

Getting Up and Running on Ninety

This guide helps you assess whether or not Ninety is right for your organization and provides four paths to get up and running on our ...
Guide, Structure

On Organizational Structure

Uncover research-based methods for dramatically improving your organization through a competencies-based approach to structure.
Guide, Tool, Core Resource

On Rolling Out Ninety Guide

Discover how we've simplified rolling out Ninety to additional teams in your organization.
Guide, Core Resource

On 9 Core Competencies

The 9 Core Competencies are our time-tested lens for assessing the strength of your company-building proficiency.
Guide, Lead, Agree, Coach

On Lead, Agree, Coach (LAC)

This in-depth guide teaches the Lead, Agree, Coach framework for leadership, which states that anyone who heads a team must use agreements, ...
Brief, Goals

Making Rocks SMART

Discover how using the SMART framework keeps Rocks aligned with the long-term goals of the organization and streamlines progress monitoring.
Data, Guide

On Data

Explore how to track and analyze data with Scorecards in our Data tool.
Guide, Core Resource

On Stages of Development

This guide introduces and thoroughly examines the five Stages of Development businesses go through on their way to becoming thriving ...
Workbook, Vision

Vision Builders Workbook

Extensive resources, insights, and worksheets to document your organization’s Vision.
Brief, Customer

Ideal Customers

Learn to cultivate three characteristics of Ideal Customers: where they are (geographic), who they are (demographic), and what they want ...
Brief, Tool

Assessments

Discover how we use assessments to understand ourselves, our teams, and our organization better.
Brief, Meetings

Foundation Setting Session

Learn how we use the Foundation Setting Session as a step to dramatically improve an organization’s performance.
Brief, People, Vision

Core Values

Core Values form one of the primary Focus Filters used to keep organizations on track to turn their Vision into reality.

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