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TIME FOR BUDGETS BUT NO TIME FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT!
Make your performance management system work for you, or if you are still without one, implement one urgently. This means making it the driving force of your improvement plan for 2010. If you are like so many other businesses out there where by you have reduced your headcount but require more out of each member of the team now, follow this simple plan.

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After The Show - Self Analysis A Critical Component to Improve Performance
An objective measurement of performance is the only way to plan and achieve continual improvement at subsequent shows.

The Service Factor during Economic Turbulence
Improving and maintaining good customer service is not an exciting endeavor. It involves detailed study and steadfast execution rather than temporary brilliance or inspiration. Therefore, customer service improvement is fundamentally an effort of continuous improvement. You must develop a basic competency in process improvement to attain and sustain high levels of customer service. This means that it is absolutely critical during tough economic times that you don’t make the mistake of cutting resources that support service excellence in your attempt to control operational costs.
Goals Will Guide You to Success
If you want to be successful in life, you need to set goals for yourself. Work hard to accomplish everything you have dreamed. Analyze your weaknesses, and the areas that need improvement. You can achieve any goal if you create a plan and work hard enough.
TIME FOR BUDGETS BUT NO TIME FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT!
Make your performance management system work for you, or if you are still without one, implement one urgently. This means making it the driving force of your improvement plan for 2010. If you are like so many other businesses out there where by you have reduced your headcount but require more out of each member of the team now, follow this simple plan.

How Planning the Work (and then Working The Plan) Can Catapult Your Marketing Success
A marketing plan is vital to the success of your business. Without a plan, even the best intentions may never be realized. You must plan the work and then work the plan, or your goals will not be accomplished. They key is to not only have a plan but to implement that plan. Here’s how.
Continuous Improvement
Firstly, this article asks the question ... "Is Continuous Improvement possible?" With a slight caveat ,the answer is 'yes'. It then sets out how you can achieve continuous improvement - without adopting any of the commercial 'methodologies, without using expensive consultants. You will , of course, have to put in some effort ... mainly thought! But it is possible - for any busines.
Change Management Can Lead to Rigidity and Resistance to Change
Beware of formal organization improvement or "change management" (an oxymoron) plans. Like strategic plans, organization improvement or change management plans can reduce an organization's effectiveness. They can lead to rigidity, bureaucracy, and resistance to change. This sounds like an argument against planning. It's not. We have found that constant and ongoing personal, team, and organization improvement planning is vital. But too many "change management" and improvement plans are built on the same faulty premise as strategic planning - that there is a right path, which can be determined in advance and then implemented. We often hear managers declare that they have the right strategic or improvement plan, but the reason things aren't going according to plan is because of "execution problems." This is a deadly assumption.
Process Management Pathways and Pitfalls (Part Two)
Make sure all your process improvement activities are clearly and tightly linked to your strategic imperatives. Each effort should also have highly focused and specific improvement goals (that are an aggressive, major stretch) and measurements. Establish feedback and follow-up steps for each process management and improvement team.

Why Most Change Programs and Improvement Initiatives Fail
Many team and organization change and improvement efforts are lost or badly bewildered. Decades of studies have consistently shown that 50-70 percent are failing. There are as many reasons that improvement endeavors lose their way, as there are people, teams, and organizations trying to improve.
After Your Engagement Survey: 24 Considerations to Turn Insight Into Action
Conducting an engagement survey is a good start. The value in the exercise though, comes in the action and dialog that follows the survey. The conduct of the survey should be considered a promissory note to your staff: they've delivered candid feedback - it's your turn now to deliver the data, and a plan for improvement.

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