Archive for People Optimization
Solving the Accountability Puzzle
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Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (April 2011)
“High performing organizations (HPOs) use information to help people improve by giving people abundant, timely and helpful data about their performance on a regular basis, individually and as a group.” (Harvard Business Review)
We would ask you to consider amending the author’s statement by suggesting that, as leaders, we focus not only on helping our people improve, but helping them optimize their potential. But how does one realistically go about doing that in our running-to-the-next-fire, never-having-the-time-to-take-a-breath, pressure induced leadership lives? The answer – create a Culture of Accountability. Embarking upon this mission certainly takes a bit of strategizing, planning, defining and implementing, but once you start working the puzzle, creating momentum and declaring incremental successes, the inertia becomes self-perpetuating and each building block becomes self-sustaining.
This begs the question…how does one construct a Culture of Accountability? We would suggest the following 12 Critical Steps and have provided a brief explanation of each:
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Unleash The Power of Team-Based Learning
Posted by: |Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (March, 2011)
In A-CHIEVE! (February 2011), we featured the Disengagement Epidemic impacting 33% of the U.S. workforce (25 million employees) at an annual lost productivity cost of $416 billion. We also shared how to keep your employees engaged – through “human connectedness” create an environment where your employees feel that they’re a part of the team, feel that they’re respected and valued and feel that they’re learning and growing. Enter Team-Based Learning (TBL), which, when structured correctly, not only engages your workforce, but accelerates business goal attainment, solves a multitude of challenges plus delivers high impact results!
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Managing Priority Overload
Posted by: |Are you on priority overload?
How many of you in Achiever-land are finding yourselves in a situation where you’re frustrated, stressed out and/or unfulfilled in your job because every time you turn around it seems that every work assignment that heads your way is characterized as a “#1, this is more important than everything else, drop-dead emergency”? Well, join the rest of your fellow Achievers (approximately 20% of the workforce) who are experiencing the same! 
Unfortunately, once you’ve been tagged as ‘the go to person’, which is typically a person who knows how to get things accomplished in a timely, cost effective and quality manner, your name spreads like wild fire. The good news is…you’ve earned a great reputation…so take a bow! The not as good news…you’ve got a real dilemma on your hands because demand (the onslaught of work that continues to head your way) far exceeds supply (your available capacity which, by the way, shouldn’t include your much deserved downtime.) This situation is further exasperated because Achievers are wired to not let anything fall through the cracks. As more work piles on, even Achievers can enter the ranks of the officially ‘disengaged’ (refer to The Disengagement Epidemic). So what do you do?
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