How to Develop a High Performance Work Culture
 
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“Together everyone achieves more.”

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“Effective teams are a necessary part of any high performance organization.”

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How to Develop a High Performance Work Culture

Table of Contents

Book Sections
Page #
The Challenge of Changing Culture
1
Do Your Leaders Behave Badly?
22
Do You Like Fighting Fires?
34
How Do You Pay Your People ?
44
When Do You Talk to Your People?
54
Is Your Idea Pool Polluted?
64
When Do You Practice?
74
Do You Waste Time and Money?
84
How Do You Use Your Numbers?
96
Are You a Digital Thinker?
106
Are Your Customers Connected?
116
Where Should You Go From Here?
128
Book Exercises
High Performance Workplace Assessment
17
Defining Leadership Expectations and Changes
31
Creating a Leadership Index
33
How Do, and Should, You Spend Your Time?
43
Scoring Your Compensation System
53
Setting Up a Communication Vehicles Matrix
63
Planning System Evaluation Worksheet
73
What are Your High Performance Training Needs?
83
Defining Key Work Processes and Waste Streams
95
How Will You Track and Measure Daily Process Performance?
105
What is Your Technology Literacy Level?
115
Setting Up a Customer Requirements Matrix
127
High Performance Work Culture Development Plan
135
High Performance Workplace Audit
136

The "How to Develop a High Performance Work Culture " book is designed to help anyone who wants to begin developing a high performance work culture within their work group, facility, or organization. The concepts, examples, tools, and exercises that are described and included will also help you better support any type of improvement initiative, such as lean manufacturing or six sigma, and do so in less time and at a lower cost. The “HP Work Culture ” workshop can be customized to meet the needs of any workplace.

Would you like to learn more about high performance work cultures?

Click on one of the following links to learn even more about this book or about other ways you can begin to develop a high performance work culture in your organization:

Book overview
Do You Have a High Performance Work Culture?
"The Challenge of Changing Culture" article
"The Change Problem" article
Great Systems! home page

 

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Copyright © 2006, Great Systems!
Last Revised - February 28, 2006
For more information, pricing, or to place an order, please contact me at: kevin@greatsystems.com