Bernard Marr, Chief Executive and Director of Research, Advanced Performance Institute
Today's strategic performance systems are business-focused and adaptable. Business performance is tied to critical competencies demonstrated by talent, and performance systems are used to measure and identify high potentials. But today's talent works differently than the traditional way performance has been managed. How do you capture performance outside the chain of command, as stretch assignments, opportunities and project teams emerge? The organizations that do this well can rely on performance measures to help manage the business. more »
If your processes are too complex they will not drive talent or organizational performance. Processes are a procedural sequence of tasks and events, but they are not capable of clearly documenting business logic. By separating business decisions from processes, processes become simplified, and logic-based decisions become easier for talent to understand. The result is less rules to follow and talent who make good decisions for your business. This webcast will discuss how to align efforts and talent performance through sound business decisions and simplified processes. If your role is performance improvement, leading others, and process effectiveness, this webcast is for you!
Don't miss these webcast take away's:
Get support for decisions based on business logic
Make decisions with data, even when data is limited
Separate decisions from processes and procedures
Simplify processes to align efforts
Improve talent's ability to make decisions and execute processes
Business performance is achieved when systems leverage talent to make their best contribution. Do your business and talent systems communicate? Performance management connects the business plan implementation with talent management. This webcast will explore how to link your systems for bottom-line performance and measurable results. Leveraging your talent's performance can position your company to be a leader in product development, customer loyalty and operational excellence. Gain insight to performance management effectiveness of the process, the form, the people, and the measurement. This webcast will reveal how performance management can be a "predictable process to improve controllable achievements. more »
Talent potential not only impacts what your strategy is but whether you can achieve it. Companies that achieve their strategic objectives depend on performance scorecard metrics so their talent clearly understands what they contribute to results. When organizations integrate talent management into business performance they drive value creation for talent, customers and shareholders. This webcast will cover how leading companies link industry challenges and business direction with talent capabilities and their dashboard measures of progress. more »
Companies that consistently see the best performance results put a strategic system into consistent practice. A performance system that drives the entire organization to results works on the boardroom level and can be adopted by each individual business unit. This webcast will feature winning organizations who apply the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence in their talent management practices. You'll hear about the results they've achieved by leveraging a performance system that transforms strategy into practice and business results. more »
A strategic performance system has traditionally been associated within the organization's boundaries. However, most companies recognize that organizational silos often limit innovation and stall break-through performance on a global platform. As companies do business in a global economy, expanding opportunities for strategic performance are all around the world. How can your talent turn your global enterprise and the world beyond into their 'idea factory' to improve performance? This webcast will address how organizations can transform their approach to strategic performance by tapping innovations from their talent across the enterprise and leveraging a global economic system. more »
The gap between star and average performers represents lost value to your organization, and the more complex the work, the more value is lost. Improvement in the talent performance curve creates higher return on your human capital assets. How can HR drive a strategic partnership that focuses on performance of business units, work groups and individuals? A strategic performance system can accelerate talent management evolution beyond transactional and tactical efforts to close performance gaps. This webcast will help you position talent development initiatives by leveraging your system for competencies, motivation, rewards, culture, and leadership support. You'll learn how to unlock value through star performer analysis, and move beyond being a practitioner to be regarded as a strategic partner.
Don't miss these webcast take away's:
A mental model of how desired organizational performance results are produced
Provide common ground for diverse stakeholders and disciplines
Remove barriers and position enablers to work strategically with stakeholders
The investment of human capital requires management of the people-process intersection to ensure that an optimized yield is realized. The real value from managing the intersection is found in the seamless way decision makers can move among three business questions: Do we have the right people? Do they fit with the right processes? Can their contribution be sustained against contrarian influences? This webcast will examine talent ability to demonstrate desired behaviors, underlying processes that motivate critical competencies, and how their strategic combination creates winning business outcomes.
Don't miss these webcast take aways:
Interdependencies of people, processes and deliverables to create a work environment focused on achieving performance excellence
Define talent requirements within a "Performance System" context
Utilize a framework to identify and manage the performance system where talent will make their contribution
If you're in HR you're expected to consult on change initiatives. And if you're in leadership it's a given to formulate and execute on strategy that involves change.
Do you use a systems approach to ensure that development and execution of business strategy, and particularly aspects that rely on talent, achieve desired performance and results? Can you operate in a larger context and think like a trusted consultant?
It takes a "prepared mind" to continually envision and execute opportunities for growth within complex and dynamic environments. Change also leverages working within existing systems to combine new information with old knowledge. Scaling the collective prepared minds of individuals through your entire organization using a systems approach provides a powerful competitive advantage. This webcast will help you assess if you are thinking big enough when it comes to facilitating and leading change in your company. more »
An increasing array of industries in the private and non-profit sectors recognize the impending talent shortage, and are taking a long-view systems approach to keeping their talent pipeline full. Reaching into the schools to prepare the next generation with the motivations and essential skills has proven to be an effective systems approach in workforce planning. This webcast will feature two successful case studies: One in the private sector from the automotive industry (Automotive Youth Education Systems (AYES) to mitigate a shrinking labor pool; and one in the non-profit health care sector (International Health Programs) to prevent major societal problems of spreading diseases and mortality. Learn how facilitated mentoring was a linch pin in sustaining a strategic systems approach to talent and performance management, and problem prevention. more »