Preface xiv
Chapter 1 Creating a Living Endowment for Ensuring Performance 1
Organizational Performance 4
Performance Analysis 6
Gap/Cause Analysis 11
Intervention Strategy 15
Design an Evaluation Plan to Measure End Results and Your Return on Investment 20
Design, Develop, and Deploy the Intervention 24
Measure End Results and Calculate Return on Investment 25
Conduct a Performance Analysis 25
Summary 26
Chapter 2 Starting with the Desired End Results 29
Principles of the Work/Life Approach 31
Organizational Bill of Rights 32
Understanding and Clarifying What People Were Hired to Do 33
Understanding and Clarifying the Expected End Results of People's Work 34
Understanding and Clarifying How the Expected Results Are Measured 34
Understanding and Clarifying the Needed Knowledge, Experience, and Skills to Perform Well on the Job 35
Understanding and Clarifying the Resources Needed: Financial, Physical, and Time 37
Understanding and Clarifying to Provide and Receive Regular Feedback 37
Understanding and Clarifying What Is Required to Be Paid for Performance 41
The Celestial Approach to Managing 43
Communication and the Flow of Work 44
Additional Thoughts to Help You Realize Your Desired End Results 45
Batting Averages 46
Tell and Persuade 46
Focus on the Work 50
Summary 50
Chapter 3 Focusing on the Work 53
Organizational Mission 53
Vision 54
Acquiring Wealth 56
Stakeholders 56
Values 57
Growth 59
Social Responsibility 59
Longevity 60
Our People 60
Mission Statement 61
Focus on the Work 61
Summary 65
Chapter 4 Increasing the Flow of Useful Information 67
Sharing Ideas 67
Useful Information 69
Levels of Information 71
Shelf Life of Useful Information 72
Communicating Useful Information 73
Respectful Communication 75
Summary 76
Chapter 5 Getting Others to Own Their Fraction of the Action 77
Sapiential Authority 77
Understanding, Acceptance, and Support (UAS) 83
Understanding 83
Acceptance 86
Support 86
Arc of Distortion 88
Summary 90
Chapter 6 Valuing Behavior: Increasing Trust and the Bottom Line 93
Valuing Behavior 96
Stress Reduction 100
Validations 102
The Whole Person Model 105
Summary 106
Chapter 7 Owning the Present Condition Helps Define the Future Condition 109
Managing System Overview 110
Strategic Arena 110
Planning 111
Organizing 112
Directing 112
Leading 113
Controlling 113
Iterative 114
Operational Arena 114
Quality Management 115
Mosaic 118
Summary 121
Chapter 8 Fifty Years of Problem Solving: A Magnificent Obsession 123
Prioritizing and Time Management 124
The Basics of Solving Problems and Making Decisions 129
Problem Solving: Analyzing the Situation, Expectations, and Actions 131
Decision Making 133
Summary 135
Chapter 9 Why Play the Blame Game? 137
Self Assessment and Analyzing the Situation 138
Summary 144
Chapter 10 Fostering Change to Enhance End Results 147
Change Management 148
Resistance to Change 150
Memories 153
Habits 154
Labeling 156
Beliefs 157
Vision 157
Summary 160
Appendix A Measuring End Results: The Return-on-Investment Plan 163
Step 1: Collect, Evaluate, and Isolate Data on the Effects of the Intervention 167
Participants' Post-Initiative Questionnaires 171
Step 2: Convert the Effects of Performance Intervention into a Monetary Value 175
Direct Observation 175
Interviews with Participants, Coworkers, and Supervisors 176
Interviews with Participants' Customers, Vendors, and Supply Chain as Appropriate 177
Focus Groups Can Add to the Synergy of a Group's Output 177
Measuring a Change in Production 177
Reduction in Customer Complaints, Customer Callbacks, and so on as Applicable 178
Reduction in the Amount of Time Needed to Perform a Task 179
Reduction in Scrap/Waste 179
Step 3: Calculate the Total Cost of a Performance Intervention 180
Step 4: Calculate the Net Benefit of a Performance Intervention 184
Step 5: Calculate the ROI 184
Summary 185
Appendix B The Authors and Their Perspectives 187
About the Authors 188
Gene E. Fusch, PhD 188
Richard C. Gillespie 189
References 191
Index 195
