A Practical Approach to Performance Interventions and Analysis: 50 Models for Building a High-Performance Culture - Softcover

Fusch, Gene E.; Gillespie, Richard C.

9780133904710: A Practical Approach to Performance Interventions and Analysis: 50 Models for Building a High-Performance Culture

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133904717 ISBN 13: 9780133904710

Publisher: Ft Pr, 2014

Imagine your best possible organization: a place where people strive for continuous improvement, communicate clearly and honestly, freely share information, respect their colleagues and leaders, make a difference -- and achieve truly extraordinary levels of performance, even in tough times. Using this book’s powerful Work/Life Approach, you can build that organization. World-renowned performance consultants Dr. Gene Fusch and Richard Gillespie offer a step-by-step blueprint for developing a true performance culture, where people bring a relentless focus and selfless collaboration to bear on the organization’s most fundamental goals. A Practical Approach to Performance Interventions and Analysis walks through every step of the process: analyzing business problems, identifying performance gaps, selecting the best interventions, measuring results, and more. You’ll learn how to integrate your organization’s goals with the beliefs and needs of your people; foster unity without conformity, and diversity without division; how to overcome the fear and distrust that makes organizations dysfunctional; and how to build an organization where everyone really takes ownership of their “fraction of the action.” Along the way, they present 50 dynamic models that tightly connect theory to real-world business practice, are ROI-driven, are fully measurable, and can be utilized by all leaders and practitioners in HR, organizational development, and training. With their guidance, you can choose and execute the performance initiatives that deliver the greatest positive impact on culture, business metrics, and the lives of all your people.

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From the Back Cover:

Today’s Start-to-Finish Blueprint for Achieving Outstanding Business Performance

� Develop a high-performance working culture that helps you drive toward excellence, even in tough times

� Integrate your organization’s goals with the beliefs and needs of your people

� Foster unity without conformity and diversity without division

Using this book’s powerful Work/Life Approach, you can build that organization.

Renowned performance consultants Dr. Gene Fusch and Richard Gillespie offer a step-by-step blueprint for developing a true performance culture, where people bring a relentless focus and selfless collaboration to bear on the organization’s most fundamental goals. Fusch and Gillespie walk you through identifying your most crucial challenges and the performance gaps standing in your way; choosing initiatives that deliver the greatest positive impact...successfully executing on those initiatives...and measuring the results. Whatever your organization or goals, this book offers your fastest, surest route to world-class performance.

This book provides clear, step-by-step techniques and examples to create and sustain a workplace that truly fosters continuous performance improvement. Beginning with the desired end results, the authors introduce their powerful Work/Life Approach paradigm: a complete model for analyzing business problems, identifying performance gaps, determining initiatives, and measuring results.

Building on the field’s most significant works and research, they demonstrate how to apply the Work/Life Approach to address the full spectrum of organizational performance issues, including leadership, time management, communication, problem solving, and change. They show how to integrate the organization’s needs to grow and prosper, with the social, economic, political, and spiritual beliefs and needs of every individual employee, both at work and at home.

Along the way, they present 50 dynamic models that connect theory to real-world business practice, and can be utilized by all leaders and practitioners in human resources, organizational development, and training.

� Choosing the right interventions for reducing the performance gap

Implement a systematic, ROI-driven strategy for selecting interventions that work

� Starting with the desired end results

Develop clear, measurable, actionable indicators to keep your organization focused

� Valuing behavior, increasing trust, and moving past the “blame game”

Overcome the fear and distrust that make organizations dysfunctional

� Getting others to own their “fraction of the action”

Build an organization where everyone “takes ownership”

About the Author:

Dr. Gene E. Fusch is a faculty member at Walden University and Northcentral University in the doctoral program in business administration. A Certified Performance Technologist, he works with organizations to help them improve performance and realize their desired end results. His clients have included Alcoa-Intalco Works, ARCO, AT&T Cable Systems, Boeing, BP, Georgia Pacific, the Washington State Department of Transportation, US West, and Yahoo!. His career has spanned both education and business, from organizational leadership to advanced technologies and aerospace.

Richard C. Gillespie is President of Work/Life Systems International and Chief Operations Officer for Salty’s Waterfront Seafood Restaurants. A renowned organizational leadership and management consultant, he spent many years at IBM in roles ranging from quality engineer to corporate internal consultant. He participated in the original initiative that established IBM’s corporate organizational development function.

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