Archive for July, 2009

July 22

How to hold people accountable?

Posted by Torben Rick
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Does this little story sound familiar?
“This is a story of four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because [...]

July 21

How to ensure successful performance measurement?

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Successful measurement systems – systems that energize and actually do what they’re supposed to do, which is boost performance – is often hard to find. Do a little performance measurement of your own: Assess it against this checklist.
How to ensure successful performance measurement?

July 20

Do you want something to grow?

Posted by Torben Rick
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When it comes to change, people don‘t believe in a new direction because they suspend their disbelief. They believe because they‘re actually seing behavior, action, and results that lead them to conclude that the program works.
If you want something to grow, pour champagne on it

Celebrate your successes and, indeed, just about everything you would like [...]

July 17

How to ensure strategy involvement?

Posted by Torben Rick
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To ensure that the vision, mission, strategy and values are implemented it is important to involve the organization in the process.
A way of doing it is to arrange workshops:

What do I do to make the vision, mission, strategy and values more relevant to my employees?
What do the vision, mission, strategy and values mean to [...]