Alignment for Performance

Submitted by Anthonie Lombard on 2 weeks 2 days ago

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Set 5 goals with each employee, by answering these questions: What would you/me/my supervisor have to accomplish during the next 12 months if our organization belonged to you/me/my supervisor and was completely in your/my/my supervisor's control? Two goals from your list, two goals from my list and 1 goal from my supervisors' prioritized list. Iterate this process "bottom-up" until everyone in the organization, has a set of unique goals. Follow customary review process during the year.

First Steps (extra credit) :

Can be started immediately, because it is per defintion a "bottom up" approach.

Bjarte Bogsnes

2 weeks 2 days ago

Anthonie,

Fascinating, simple and concrete! What would guide and inspire those goals?

Thanks,
Bjarte

Chris Grams

2 weeks 1 day ago

I agree with Bjarte... this is brilliantly simple, and would probably be effective because it puts every employee who answers the questions in a place where they feel both autonomy and accountability at the same time. The answer to "what would I do if this were my company?" may be very different than the answer to "what should I do given that this is your company?" and the "powers that be" should be prepared to embrace answers and priorities that may deviate from their core point of view. Some perspectives may not be as valuable as others, but ALL will be useful in developing a more holistic view of what optimum performance for the organization would look like. Nice work!

Anthonie Lombard

2 weeks 2 days ago

The indomitable spirit of especially knowledge workers (well captured and explained by e.g. Dan Pink) to create value and deliver results while operating with a high degree of autonomy, while sharpening "the saw" (improving self) and being tethered (not schackled) to a superordinate mission.