At VisionLink, when we meet with new clients, we often ask them to describe the primary outcome they want their businesses to achieve. While their answers vary, they all point to the same issue. They want a high-performance culture. This means they want their people to be committed to the company’s growth goals (at all levels of the company) and that there is a unified vision for building the business. To succeed in 2023 and beyond, every company will need a culture that performs like that. So, how do you create and sustain such an ethos? This month’s Growth Notes answers that question.
Getting to the Critical Few Behaviors That Can Drive Cultural Change
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Focusing on a “critical few” behaviors is one of the fundamental tenets of working effectively with organizational culture. Sometimes called keystone behaviors, these are patterns of acting that are tangible, repeatable, observable, and measurable, and will contribute to achieving an organization’s strategic and operational objectives. Read More>
A High-Performance Culture Starts with a Clear Performance Framework
(VisionLink)
Most business leaders are in constant search of higher performance. They set targets for...well...pretty much everything, in the hope of raising the commitment and engagement level of their employees. However, too often those efforts fall short because they don’t construct the proper framework to hold all the necessary performance pieces together. Read More>
How to Motivate Employees to Go Beyond Their Jobs
(Harvard Business Review)
Every day, employees make decisions about whether they are willing to go the extra mile in ways that contribute to their organization’s success. These are important decisions because research shows that when employees are willing to go beyond their formal roles…their companies are more efficient and effective. As a result, a critical task for successful managers is to motivate their employees to engage in these extra-role behaviors, which researchers refer to as “citizenship behaviors.” Read More>
The Reinvention of Performance Management
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The trend to change performance management began several years ago and accelerated during the economic lockdown. Now, companies large and small are abandoning rigid systems focused on annual, year-end reviews and are adopting fluid, forward-looking approaches rooted in mentoring and coaching. VisionLink’s free report, The Reinvention of Performance Management, will help you understand this trend and how it will affect your company.
The performance management revolution has left business leaders with many questions. Among them is how the more flexible system of managing employee performance should impact the company’s compensation philosophy and strategy. This report addresses that issue and helps you envision a pay offering that is compatible with where performance management is headed.
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