- Elevate your vision
- Regularly measure progress
- Standardize every process
- Use a strategic goal process
- Adopt a process of accountability
Key #1: Elevate Your Vision
In order to get an organization to function like a team, the employees need a common vision that really motivates them to not only work together, but to also do their very best work, every day.
Key #2: Regularly Measure Progress
Your report card needs to include much more than just financial data. What is a process? Gradual changes that lead to a particular result: A series of actions or operations conducing to an end.
A repeatable business event that affects our overall business in either a positive or negative way.
"Amateurs practice till they can get it right. Professionals practice till they can't get it wrong."
Key #3: Standardize every process
Wherever it makes sense, if all parts of an organization understand the standards and can apply uniformity without sacrificing quality of decision making to each process, the result will be a more cohesive organization that is better equipped to grow faster than others less organized.
Key #4: Use a Strategic Goal Process
To create a high achievement culture, organizations must use a goal setting process which allows them to accomplish the goals they set. Organizations should set strategic and improvement goals.
Key #5: Adopt a Process of Accountability
"If people are not prepared to be held accountable for what they do, it is unlikely they will achieve much. To choose a goal without being prepared to be accountable for progress towards it is to choose nothing." - David H. Maister-Harvard Professor and Author.
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