Improvement Planning for Taking Charge of Change
Continually improving our capabilities calls for coordination and planning. The goal of planning isn't plans, however, but action.
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AllBlogArticlesWhitepapersCase StudiesVideosWebinarsBooks/CDsHow Total is Your Quality Management?
Discipline, consistency, and new habit formation moves organizations from Partial Quality Management to true Total Quality Management.
Read article »How to Make Effort Rewarding
A high level of employee involvement leads to the creation of an effective reward and recognition program.
Read article »How Many Companies Lose That Loving Feeling
Many successful companies are started by passionate zealots, full of energy and excitement. But once the Technomanagers take over, people are turned into their roles, systems, and processes — then their heart and soul are lost.
Read article »High Performance Organization Structures and Characteristics
Research and experience shows that the shape and characteristics of high performing organization structures have a number of common features.
Read article »Harnessing the Power of Teams
Today's highly effective teams have a broad ownership and participation in the team's tasks and how everyone works together to achieve them. Team members and leaders share responsibility for the effectiveness of the team. One of the best indicators of the strength of a team is the "We to Me" ratio.
Read article »Harnessing the Energy of Change Champions
When I look back at the hundreds of team or organization changes I've been involved in during the last three decades, the most successful – and certainly all major ones – were driven by "monomaniacs with a mission."
Read article »Growing Others into What They Could Be
A leader sees people as they could be, seeing beyond current problems and limitations to help others see their own possibilities.
Read article »Good Feedback Benefits Both Giver and Receiver
Feedback can be destructive when it serves only one's own needs and fails to consider the needs of the person on the receiving end. Good feedback takes into account the needs of both the receiver and giver.
Read article »Goal Setting Can Limit Our Flexibility and Learning
Goals define what you want to have, not what you want to become. Goals are, however, targets that help us immensely in moving from a general vision to a specific set of priorities and actions.
Read article »Getting it Together: Integrating Customer Focus
Change direction from internal to customer focus, functional to horizontal management and management-centeredness to total involvement.
Read article »Focus and Context: The Hub of Leadership
The hub of leadership, Focus and Context, is where the contrast between management and leadership is possibly at its sharpest. It is the very beginning point of strong leadership.
Read article »Feedback to See How Others See Me
We tend to define levels of service or quality through our own eyes and values. That may not be the way our customers or partners define it. If we're going to improve the service or quality delivered, we need to first understand how those we're serving, or producing for, perceive service or quality.
Read article »Feedback is an Essential Element of Learning and Improvement
As managers, our frequency, sensitivity, and action (or lack of it) on personal performance feedback sets the pace and tone for the rest of our team and organization.
Read article »Exception is A Poor Rule
Effective leaders build an atmosphere of accomplishment and pride through recognition and appreciation within the organization.
Read article »Engagement is an Inside Job
Building partnerships through involvement and participation results in strong leadership that leads to high performance.
Read article »Education and Communications Pathways and Pitfalls
Trust and communication levels go together. The source of misunderstandings and mistrust is often in the leaders' behavior and lack of communication.
Read article »Education and Communication Build Commitment
If we want people on our team or in our organizations to behave like business partners, we need to treat them that way. Education, combined with powerful communication systems, processes, and practices, is one of the keys to organizational learning and innovation.
Read article »Don’t Wait to See Blood
A few examples of the multitude of ways to gain a true picture of how you and your management team's actions are viewed through your organization.
Read article »Don’t Promise Too Much
Promise a little and deliver a lot, and ensure expectations match your delivery capabilities. Service reputation keeps customers coming back.
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