Sunday, July 26, 2009

Performance Improvement

What is in your mind translates into your words, your actions and your results. If we want to close the gap between what we need and what we get, we need to have a clear picture of our belief window. That clarity will propel our actions and bring us to our goals. As a leadership team we need to insure that we are all on the same page. Achieving a win – win agreement puts us in the best place to be successful. Each individual has to challenge themselves to insure that their paradigm or belief window is not limiting their performance. Remember that if we are not on the same page that the FUZZY will stop us from winning or achieving our goals.

It is important that we each work on how we can improve our individual performance and each supervisor works to partner with their people so that they can take their performance to the next level. We need to be aware of how we are performing today and where we need to improve. We have to commit to do things differently and have new success behaviors. Through consistent execution we need to cement the right habits that take us to improved results. This will only happen if we work by intention to make it happen.

Dealing with the Barriers that are impacting our Performance

Ø Not clearly defining roles and responsibilities
Ø Not Tracking or Performance in writing
Ø Lack of a proactive written schedules
Ø Failure to train people to play their positions
Ø Not enough people owning their performance
Ø Running around like crazy and getting out of our lanes

To win you need to attack the issues that are in your path. You need to insure that we consistently work together to drive to the desired results. Winning will come from working a plan. We have to be honest about our issues, believe that we can fix the problem, and make it happen.

Bob Coulter