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Newest Articles •Small Business Performance:What One Thing Can Lose Clients Fast? If you don't keep your promises on all the small things, clients won't believe your word on anything. Here's how that works, why that works and what to do about it when you can't keep your word. •Management Performance:Performance Review 2.0: Eight Ways to Overhaul Your Employee Evaluation System Why employee performance review are not merely necessary, but can also be profitable and enjoyable for all involved. How to do them so they work well. •Management Performance:Achieving Goals in Five Steps Do you have a clear, organized, step-wise system for setting and accomplishing organizational goals. Here's an easy approach for businesses both large and small. •Personal Performance:Where Are You Thinking Today? This article doesn't ask what you're thinking or how you're thinking, but rather "where" you're thinking. Do you focus your thinking on the past? The future? Or are you focused on making things happen in the here and now? •Management,Training and Performance:Focus on Learning, not Training Your investment in employee or management training should pay off with high retention and usage rates. Here are some suggestions about ensuring that your training programs get the best results possible. •Career Performance:Employment in Small Business May Be Your Best Bet If you are finding the employment market impossibly tight, you may be overlooking the largest employer of all. There are outstanding advantages in looking for jobs with small employers. •Small Business Performance:25 Super-Practical Steps to Build Your Business! Each day of the work week, you can do five reasonably easy, quick actions that can make an immediate impact on your business. •Small Business Performance:Make Life Easier to Enjoy Greater Success Do you cast too wide a net? Try to be all things to all customers? Work way too hard? Becoming more specialized may improve your performance as well as make life easier and business more profitable. •Management Performance:What Motivates People? A short list of reminders of basic employee motivators. Not comprehensive, just quick, handy and helpful. •Career Performance:You Can Either Have Fun or Make Money? Not When You Use Emotional Intelligence! Whether you work for yourself or for someone else, you can find a way to do work that is enjoyable and meaningful. All other things being equal, wouldn't you rather be happy at work? •Management Performance:How to Build a Business Ethics Program Regardless of how small is your business, you need a code of ethics that you can use to guide your employees. Not only do you have to be concerned about compliance with a variety of laws, you also have to consider how trustworthy you appear to your customers, lenders and investors. A good start is to have a formal manual. •Management Performance:Leadership: Can anyone learn to be a great leader? Are you leadership material? Can you find your way to great leadership through training? Coaching? Experience? What more do you have to do to be a great leader? •Personal Performance:The Best Things in Life Are Rarely Things Just a thought: if you want to lead a "richer" and more productive life you'll be better off living up to your own expectations and meeting you own actual needs. Wealth may be a competition, but richness is in relationships and lifestyles. •Small Business Performance:Free Press for your Biz by Performing a Good Deed News coverage on your business is always great PR, but combining it with promoting your favorite cause or charity more than doubles the satisfaction. Here are some suggestions on how it's done. •Career Performance:How to Write a Job-Winning Cover Letter Nine succinct tips that can make your cover letter get you the interview. From a former manager with a good deal of hiring experience, who knows what employers seek. •Training for Performance & Productivity:Why People Hate Training Employee and management training is an essential part of quality businesses. Yet most employees' experiences have led them to treat it as if they were taking a bitter pill. Make sure your people are glad to go and that they profit from it. Here are some suggestions. •Management/Organizational Performance:5 Ways to Constantly Attract Good People If you keep a current file of excellent prospective employees, you are able to make contacts and start interviewing when a position opens. Why wait until you have a vacancy and then start the long and expensive process of recruiting? Here are some tips on getting a head start on filling future positions. •Career/Management/Organizational Performance:In Praise Of Failure Eileen McDargh shares the wisdom of what can and should be learned from our failures and mistakes as she urges us to move forward focusing on creating something stronger and more lasting. •Management/Organizational Performance:Talent Management: Why Does It Matter? If your business is like most businesses, you want the best, most productive, highest performing employees you can get. And you want to keep them. Here are some tips to help you do that. •Career Performance:Nine Networking Tips for Success If you're looking for a job or developing a career you know you need to network. No matter where you are in the process of networking, this article provides tips from a networking pro that will add to your networking toolbox. •Career Performance:Being a Strong Leader Despite a Bad Boss Don't let a bad boss interfere with your growth as a leader. Use these ideas to influence and manage your boss and strengthen your own position. •Career Performance:What You Need to Know About Office Politics Confused by office politics? Here's a great summary of the absolute basics you need to understand. •Career Performance:Winning at Working: Impressions How do you handle difficulties in business relationships? Are you passive? Agressive? Can you finesse the sticking points? Can you work out snags face-to-face? What kind of impression do you make in your dealings with others when things aren't working well? •Small Business Performance & Productivity:3 Quick Tips to Banish Your Bookkeeping Blues! The bane of the small businessperson's life -- bookkeeping and records keeping. Here's a method of organizing your info that's easy and fast and so simple you'll be surprized you didn't think of it. •Personal Performance:The Back Burner Almost all of us have lists of "to-do-sometime-when-I-can." And many are important or even essential to a whole and healthy life. But other more urgent claims on our time put them on the back burner. Here's why and how to get them done. •Career Performance:Ignorance Is Not Bliss -- Why You Aren't Getting Job Offers If you are getting interviews but not job offers, something may be wrong. Just being able to get the interview means you've done a good job with your résumé, so you may need to consider the tips in this article to find out why you're getting rejected in person. •Career/Small Business Performance (Sales):Maximizing Your Price -- The Value / Benefit Equation Mark Hunter (The Sales Hunter) explains the rationale behind setting a reasonable and profitable price by its true value rather than simple cost plus evaluation. Sales professionals and small businesses in particular would benefit from his advice. •Career Performance:How Do You Deal With A Micromanager? Does your boss watch everything you do and tell you exactly how to do it? In great detail? Allowing you little responsibility or autonomy? Read this article to see what you can do about that. •Management Performance:Key Qualities of Great Mentors If you would like to accept the challenge of mentoring others, here is an outline of the basic traits you must develop in yourself. •Career Performance:Top 7 Reasons Why A Potential Employer Won't Read Your Resume Do you know the tricks résumé readers use to hone in on the résumé they think have potential? Are you doing any of the no-no's that will get your résumé kicked into the trash without further consideration? Do you know how to avoid "fads" in résumé writing? Here are some ideas to help you get your résumé past the gatekeepers. Do Good Works Every Day - At No Cost But A Click (Click the tabs to go to the sites.) The Hunger Site Click a button on the Hunger Site and a hungry family gets food. The Rainforest Site Click a button on the Rainforest Site and some land will be bought to preserve rainforests. Child Health Site Click a button on the Child Health Site and health care will be provided for a child. The Literacy Site Click a button on the Literacy Site and children get free books. The Animal Rescue Site Click a button on the Animal Rescue Site and an animal shelter will receive food. The Breast Cancer Site Click a button on the Breast Cancer Site and funding will go to test women for breast cancer. Continued from top of page: This is a content site and mini-portal for human performance improvement.We cover three main areas for human performance improvement:•Career/Professional•Educational•PersonalThe content here is provided for three basic interest groups for human performance improvement:•Employers/Employees (includes professionals & entrepreneurs)•Teachers (Trainers)/Students•Individual Self-Development SeekersThere are three basic kinds of content currently here or in development for this site:•Information (articles, link directories, reviews, blogs, other publications)•Educational/Training Tools (online classes, tests, software, audio, video, etc.)•Personal Development Tools (online classes, consulting, testing, audio, video, motivational/inspirational posters, software, self-hypnosis devices, meditation devices, meditation accessories, etc.)To explore the site, go back to the main topics directory at the top of the page.Or take a moment to read the following two articles further explaining human performance, human performance improvement, human performance technology and human performance management.About Human PerformanceHuman performance is a behavior, a process, a procedure, a way of working or functioning, or an accomplishment. As a study, human performance is concerned with the measurable results of specific behaviors, especially work performance and productivity or athletic accomplishments. The field of study of human performance for the workplace usually covers three subjects: human performance improvement, human performance management and human performance technology.1. Human Performance ImprovementHuman performance improvement is any process for increasing the effectiveness of specified behaviors or work procedures in producing better results or finding more effective behaviors or procedures to produce the desired results. Performance improvement methods apply to individuals, teams, organizational divisions or departments and/or entire organizations.Training and coaching have been the primary methods of human performance improvement, but human performance technology (HPT) is encompassing and superceding them.2. Human Performance TechnologyHuman Performance Technology (HPT) refers to the systematic processes in which an organization discovers and analyzes desired human performance outcomes (goals), determines what causes those outcomes, designs methods for achieving those outcomes, applies the methods, measures the effectiveness of those methods and redesigns the system for further improvement. Often, HTP is a studied on a meta level, covering a number of organizations or on a theoretical level, covering modeled organization types. In the workplace HPT application tends to be an organization-wide, rather generalized process and usually relies on Human Performance Management for specific applications to specific units of the organization.The phrase human performance technology is misleading in that it means technology in a different sense than most commonly used. It is accurate, however. a true meaning of the word technology use to indicate that the scientific method has been used for commercial or industrial ends. It is about a process or system of procedures that organizes and directs or regulates human behavior.Human Performance Technology comes from Systems Theory as it applies to people and organizations. Systems Theory studies complex natural and human systems.3. Human Performance Management Human Performance Management is the real-world application of HPT in the workplace. Like the more general HPT, it follows a systematic process, but is hands-on, and applied to specific employees, teams or organizational units: Establishing goals or objectives. Planning procedures for accomplishing those goals or objectives. Conveying the objectives and the procedures to the employees. Modifying employee behavior. Measuring results. Identifying the differences between the desired results and the actual results. Analyzing the probable causes of the differing results. Designing new procedures. And starting the whole process over again, until the results are satisfactory.What does Human Performance improvement (HPI) or Human Performance Technology (HPT) do for you?There is a host of theories, principles, procedures, prescriptions and recipes for improving organizations and employees. To name but a few, they include human resources development, organizational development, management training, organizational reengineering, organizational analysis, strategic planning, team management, conflict management and employee motivation intervention.What HPI (or HPT) does is collect the various organization/employee/career improvement schemes under one superseding approach that turns the field of human performance into a behavioral science. It is a systematic, results-oriented method. It is easy to understand and apply to any level -- individual, team, organization. Indeed, it even helps you understand at what level you should apply it.HPI (or HPT) doesn't displace the orientations and methodologies mentioned above, it merely advises you to stop first and ask yourself what exact, specific results you want from your business (or career). Compare the results you want to the results you are now getting. If there is a difference between the results you want and the results you're getting, take a look at what you are doing to get those results. Analyze what processes, procedures or behaviors would get the results you want. Then add those new actions or change to those actions to get the desired outcomes. Keep repeating that approach and measuring outcomes until you get the results you want. The point is, don't just willy-nilly try training or reengineering or employee motivation interventions or team coaching or whatever other trend is making the rounds of the management consulting community. Human Performance Improvement is a comprehensive approach that covers the many aspects of behavior related to productivity, achievement, skills/knowledge development, learning and creativity. Those aspects include not only organizational performance and development, but also career and professional development issues, training, motivation, stress, human resources development, education, management, the effects of health/fitness on performance and productivity and work/life balance. Human Performance and Achievement Resources |
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