Creating a High Performance Culture
...today. First, we will help you to surface your “hedgehog” concept – an idea coined by the renowned management scientist and consultant, Jim Collins, author of Good To Great. We will help you, your key staff, and your key clients, to create the robust, internal organizational dialogue required to identify the area in which you can achieve the highest possible performance – an area of potential greatness in performance that engages the highest passions and motivations of your team to achieve excellence. This process will also give you fundamental insight into your optimal economic model – the one true model for your team that delivers the superior financial results required for your organization to survive and thrive even in highly competitive and unfavorable operating environments. As part of surfacing your hedgehog concept, we will help you and your team review your respective roles to ensure that the right players are on the team and that the players are in the right positions for you to achieve your “hedgehog” concept. Mastery of what is known as the people process is an essential component of your organization’s capacity to execute. Second, through a rigorous systems analysis of your unique “hedgehog concept,” we will help you to identify the key leverage points that your team can exploit today. Mastery of systems thinking will help you understand where your unique strengths and capacities as a team can come to bear most forcefully in moving you efficiently towards your desired objectives. Third, we will create specific, measurable benchmarks for actions taken by your team on your organization’s key leverage points. Developing such measurable performance benchmarks tied to your key leverage points allows you to create specific responsibility and accountability for execution, founded upon a realistic and attainable strategy. Without such benchmarks, the path towards realizing your hedgehog concept will become cloudy and meandering as you strike out haphazardly in every direction with no sense of what is working for you and why. Fourth, we will crea...