Performance Improvement: Making It Happen

Your business - large or small, profit or not-for-profit, government or private - will benefit from the techniques found in Performance Improvement: Making it Happen. It offers a comprehensive, practical approach to diagnostic performance problems and their causes. More importantly, it gives you the tools and methods for achieving major performance improvement in individuals, teams, and organizations.

Table of Contents:
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT: GETTING IT STARTED Performance Improvement: An Overview of Today's Realities Performance Gaps and Deficiencies: An Overview Deciding on Performance Improvement: Useful Concepts and Tools Performance Improvement and Goal Setting: Making the Strategic Vision Happen PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT: TAKING ACTION Building a Learning Organization Selection and Performance: Process, Tools, and Techniques Strategic Plan for the Organization: Where It All Starts Teams and Performance Leadership and Teamwork Performance Improvement and Developing the Individual Training, Development, and Education: Helping People Learn for Performance Learning in Support of Other Performance Improvement Initiatives EVALUATING AND STABILIZING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT Factors Affecting Performance Improvement Stability Comprehensive Performance Improvement Performance Improvement Efforts: Trade Offs for Leaders

Review :
"This is a valuable guide to transforming the traditional organization from average to great! Enlightened managers who practice the principles outlined in this book will create enterprising solutions that promote action driven by motives other than self-interest. These managers will no longer rely on authority or management procedures but believe in talent development; they will deploy philosophy, set standards of excellence, and support their people as good stewards of talent. The outcome is the high performance organization that forever delivers 'best in class' results."-David J. Vaughn, Board of Advisors, Corporate Universities International, Corporate University Xchange, Inc. "Dr. Enos uses a step-by-step approach that offers leaders a means to achieve ongoing performance improvement in their organization. This handbook gives you real cases that address specific opportunities and solutions and it also lists pitfalls that can derail efforts to improve. We have used several instruments mentioned in the book and were able to uncover and address problems immediately that might have taken months."-Dave O'Keefe, President and CEO, Landshire, Inc. "This book details in very specific terms the steps to accomplishing performance improvement in most any type organization from large to small start ups. We have benefited from many of the concepts explained in this book. We have used, for example, the Model for Growth with our management team and feel they have improved their skills through its use. Hiring employees who are a good fit for our organization has been a challenge. The profiling instrument, the Achiever, has given us another tool to assess candidates and how well they will fit."-JaneWulf, Director, Human Resources, Scottsdale Securities, Inc. "This is an important and valuable book and it should become a popular text for college courses that stress application of sound conceptual principles to m workplace. Each chapter has small case studies integrated into the body of the text in an effective manner and the suggested action steps at the end of each chapter provide a set of exercises for the students."-James M. Brasfield, Ph.D., Chairperson, Department of Management, Webster University, Webster Groves, Missouri