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Tag Archives: performance
The Performance Curve
This week I spent some time working with a group of long term employees from more than ten organizations from the same region. The primary topic of discussion centered on how short as well as long term performance could be … Continue reading
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Tagged growth and development, perfomance curve, performance
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All Good Things Go Together
We want to believe that all good things go together. We are taught as children that a successful person has it all: fulfilling relationships, good education, nice house, beautiful family, great job, and happiness. In our individual lives, we want … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, build on strengths, good things go together, performance
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Credit Seekers
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. Indira … Continue reading
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Tagged performance, recognition, stealing credit
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Mastery and Performance
I recently read a biographic summary of the development of various sports stars from their childhood until their retirement. There were more than a few inspirational stories of athletes who came from humble beginnings to attain greatness. About half way … Continue reading
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Tagged full competence, mastery, performance, performance uniformity, talent
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Organizational Effectiveness: Performance
Most of us discuss some form of performance on a regular basis. When we talk about our automobiles, sports teams, or even retirement accounts, performance forms the basis of the conversation. In our minds, there is typically a standard we … Continue reading
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Tagged organizational effectiveness, organizational performance, performance
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Organizational Effectiveness: Strategy
Some of you may have shared the fun I did as a teenager of just driving for the sake of driving. Many times my friends and I had nowhere in particular to go, but we would all pile into a … Continue reading
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Tagged effectiveness, performance, strategy, strategy development, strategy formation
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Organizational Effectiveness: Workplace Culture
Like other organizational characteristics, we talk a lot about workplace culture without having a clear definition of what it really is. It is something that we know it when we see it, but have a hard time identifying its length … Continue reading
Organizational Effectiveness: Engagement Connection
It has become part of accepted business wisdom that engagement plays a role in how well an organization performs. Most of us accept that as the workforce becomes more engaged, it performs at a higher level thus increasing the overall … Continue reading
Organizational Effectiveness: What Makes An Organization Successful?
Effectiveness is often thought of as part of the “all good things” that a successful organization desires to possess. Just like an individual wants to be “healthy, wealthy, and wise,” we describe how our organizations aspire to be efficient, effective, … Continue reading
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Tagged effectiveness, efficiency, organizational effectiveness, performance
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Leadership Shortage: Dealing with the Reality
Over the last few years, there has been a growing concern with the pending leadership shortage. Almost every week there is an article about a shortage of qualified leaders in major corporations, government, community colleges, public schools, or other organizations. … Continue reading
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Tagged leadership, leadership shortage, performance
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