PERFORMANCE standardsBureaucratic government and corporate-services entities are plagued by an organizational inertia of complacency and mediocrity. The principal cause is a reversal of the Pygmalion effect in managers' expectations of their employees: the giving off of facial, verbal, and nonverbal ...
With a quantifiable gap in performance established, you can start working toward reducing and eliminating it. Create a plan to close the gap methodically, and regularly measure your progress. This essentially means performing the gap analysis repeatedly over time to see if the gap is closing, wide...
Let’s say you’re the manager of a team and, for whatever reason, you realize that someone who reports to you is missing an essential skill. What do you do?
Performance Gap– a lack of motivation or engagement leading to poor performance. Unlike the previous two types, performance gaps occur when an employee with all the tools to be successful underachieves. This could be for several reasons, including poor management or individuals being a bad cultura...
So why, despite all the talking and all the resources at their disposal, have the leaders of many of the largest organizations in the world not been able to close the innovation gap? The short answer is that almost everything that has made them successful in the past can get in the way...
The impact on K–12 student learning has been significant: Unless steps are taken to address unfinished learning in the US, today’s students may earn $49,000 to $61,000 less over their lifetime; without teachers, closing the learning gap won’t be possible. Ahead of #TeacherAppreciation...
Gapology is the term Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff coined to describe what winning leaders do to identify and close performance gaps in their teams. Gapology is their process. For more than a decade, they analyzed the results, leadership behaviors and tactics of winning leaders as compared...
But Yelitsa rejects the idea that her brand is anything close to mainstream. “Target is definitely a huge opportunity,” she says. “But we are recognizing how much more work we have to do before every kid is running around with a Zoe doll.” Finding a gap in the market: Launching ...
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I believe neither is acceptable. We must change the way we think: living well does not need to mean having more private spaces; instead, it could mean having more public spaces. A better goal than building bigger houses...