Book description
Imagine your best possible organization: a place where people strive for continuous improvement, communicate clearly and honestly, freely share information, respect their colleagues and leaders, make a difference -- and achieve truly extraordinary levels of performance, even in tough times. Using this book’s powerful Work/Life Approach, you can build that organization. World-renowned performance consultants Dr. Gene Fusch and Richard Gillespie offer a step-by-step blueprint for developing a true performance culture, where people bring a relentless focus and selfless collaboration to bear on the organization’s most fundamental goals. A Practical Approach to Performance Interventions and Analysis walks through every step of the process: analyzing business problems, identifying performance gaps, selecting the best interventions, measuring results, and more. You’ll learn how to integrate your organization’s goals with the beliefs and needs of your people; foster unity without conformity, and diversity without division; how to overcome the fear and distrust that makes organizations dysfunctional; and how to build an organization where everyone really takes ownership of their “fraction of the action.” Along the way, they present 50 dynamic models that tightly connect theory to real-world business practice, are ROI-driven, are fully measurable, and can be utilized by all leaders and practitioners in HR, organizational development, and training. With their guidance, you can choose and execute the performance initiatives that deliver the greatest positive impact on culture, business metrics, and the lives of all your people.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Preface
-
1. Creating a Living Endowment for Ensuring Performance
- Organizational Performance
- Performance Analysis
- Gap/Cause Analysis
- Intervention Strategy
- Design an Evaluation Plan to Measure End Results and Your Return on Investment
- Design, Develop, and Deploy the Intervention
- Measure End Results and Calculate Return on Investment
- Conduct a Performance Analysis
- Summary
- 2. Starting with the Desired End Results
- 3. Focusing on the Work
- 4. Increasing the Flow of Useful Information
- 5. Getting Others to Own Their “Fraction of the Action”
- 6. Valuing Behavior: Increasing Trust and the Bottom Line
- 7. Owning the Present Condition Helps Define the Future Condition
- 8. Fifty Years of Problem Solving: A Magnificent Obsession
- 9. Why Play the Blame Game?
- 10. Fostering Change to Enhance End Results
-
A. Measuring End Results: The Return-on-Investment Plan
- Step 1: Collect, Evaluate, and Isolate Data on the Effects of the Intervention
- Step 2: Convert the Effects of Performance Intervention into a Monetary Value
- Step 3: Calculate the Total Cost of a Performance Intervention
- Step 4: Calculate the Net Benefit of a Performance Intervention
- Step 5: Calculate the ROI
- Summary
- B. The Authors and Their Perspectives
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: A Practical Approach to Performance Interventions and Analysis: 50 Models for Building a High-Performance Culture
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2012
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780133040524
You might also like
book
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen)
The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror. (plus the …
book
Accelerating Performance
Transform your organization into a dynamic catalyst for success Accelerating Performance is not just another “warm …
book
An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better
This book is about the basic principles that underlie critical thinking and creativity. The majority of …
book
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The …