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Performance Improvement

  • Value Is In the Eye of the Employee The principles of quality improvement apply just as well to performance improvement as they do to manufacturing or markeing and sales. See how principles described by Michael Webb of Sales Performance Consultants can be used to analyze your performance improvment efforts.

  • How Do You Celebrate Victory? How do you celebrate the great moments in your life and in your work? Ccelebration is important so in this article I share some thoughts about why it's important and how to get the most out of your celebrations.

  • The Three-Legged Stool of Employee Performance
    What you're looking to build is an operation that will be stable and strong under all kinds of business conditions. In this article, you can read how you can give your business the stability of a three-legged milking stool.

  • Do You Know How Much Poor Performance Costs You?
    Probably more than you think. If you calculate the answers to the 12 key questions in this article, you'd know for sure.

  • Measure It and They Will Perform
    In case you hadn't noticed, your employees watch carefully to see which parts of their work performance you measure and which you don't. Guess which gets their attention and their best effort?

  • The Hidden Power of Membership
    Why do so many people want to belong to an exclusive club? You can put the power of membership to work in your business and reap huge rewards in increased employee performance.

  • How to Celebrate Your Way to Increased Performance
    Everybody loves a party. Here you'll learn techniques to use the milestones in your business plan to increase the performance of your business.

  • Why Goals Outperform New Year's Resolutions Every Time
    Did you keep your New Year's resolution last year? I thought you'd say that. I bet you met your sales goals, though, didn't you? Here's why.

  • Get Your Employees Working in the Zone
    Athletes often say they were "in the zone" when they performed at their very best. In this article I reveal the three secrets great athletes and others use to get into this zone as well as four techniques you can use to help your employees work at their peak.

  • What Do Great Performance Goals Look Like? Having clear goals helps give us the drive to achieve the success we want in business and in life. But since your employees might not know how to craft good goals, here is a summary of how to create good performance goals so you can help them.

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