Winning the ACO Challenge – Workshop
This workshop will illustrate the benefits and fundamentals for healthcare provider participation in an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Through stories and excercises, participants will gain an understanding of their current readiness and next steps to succeed under health reform.
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Central Time. Continue reading
Planning & Achieving Business Excellence – Workshop
This workshop will provide a hands on introduction to the fundamentals of strategic performance management. Through stories and hands-on exercises, attendees will learn new tools for managing in constantly changing business conditions.
Date and Time: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Central Time. Continue reading
Preventing Your Next Crisis – Webinar
If you’ve spent a any time considering ways to protect your business from risks lately, you might have plans in place to deal with the most likely threats. But what about the risks that are a little less likely, yet potentially severe enough to deal a critical blow?
Spend an hour with us and start proactively managing risks in your organization. In this free webinar, you will learn how to identify critical business risks, and how to prioritize and prevent them. Learn these techniques before the next crisis threatens your business. Continue reading
Moving Beyond the Strategic Plan – Webinar
You’ve probably spent a lot of time setting goals and strategy lately. But how will you translate your strategic plan into action? Spend an hour with us learning how to avoid the worst strategy execution mistakes and refocus your organization on achieving breakthrough results from your strategy.
In this free webinar, our panel demonstrates techniques for creating the right environment for successful strategy execution. Continue reading | 2 Comments
5 Steps for Better Employee Engagement
- Build the Puzzle: In routine conversations, talk about how day to day problems (the tiny pieces) fit into the big picture of business goals.
- Live the Vision: Be the visible embodiment of the strategy. Schedule weekly events where you can be seen by all employees to be acting in the spirit of the company vision.
- Celebrate Often: Actively create frequent small victories on the way to greater successes. Employees’ energy levels will drop when the only clear goals are far into the future.
Best Practices: How to Design Performance Indicators for Maximum Benefit
Without guidance, it is very easy for your first steps in performance management to involve looking over someone else’s library of 1001 indicators & metrics and picking a couple dozen that look good at the time. But that approach is likely to require too much data collection effort and fail to produce the kinds of successes your business needs. Here are my top 5 Tips for ensuring that your performance indicators focus your business on achieving its own goals and identifying watershed moments. Continue reading
Watershed Moments: How Managing Strategy Execution Improves Business Performance
The next time a situation arises that dramatically alters your business environment, will you notice it? How quickly? Watershed moments in history have shaped our world and our view of it. The impact these changes have on our lives can seem to be a matter of chance. But in business, they are as much a matter of leadership. Continue reading