Business Performance Assessment Program Warning Flag 6 – Massaging the Message for the Boss

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Warning Flag ArticleConstructively critical business performance assessments often present executives and managers with a difficult to accept performance message. While intended to improve overall organizational performance, leaders may take these assessments as an affront to their authority or condemnation of their performance and some leaders may even retaliate against assessors. (See StrategyDriven Evaluation and Control Best Practice article, Don’t Break the Mirror) Additionally, lead assessors and team members seeking to gain the approval of those executives and managers who may positively influence their careers might themselves be overly concerned about the evaluation’s messaging.


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Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

Business Performance Assessment Program Best Practice 11 – Identify Risk-based Business Performance Assessments

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Best Practice ArticleOrganizations expend significant personnel and financial resources on well-performed business performance assessments and the implementation of follow-up performance improvement actions. To reap the appropriate return on their investment, executives and managers must carefully select the self assessments to be performed such that they directly support achievement of organizational goals and values while mitigating its most significant risks.


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Business Performance Assessment Program – Combination Assessments

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Principle ArticleSomething is not right… performance seems okay but the organization is not moving forward, not learning, not developing, as it should. The spark of innovation, the passionate drive to excel is gone from the leadership team and workforce. Sales may be stagnate or declining. Or perhaps asset experience one too many failures to be considered normal.


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Business Performance Assessment Program – Different is not Necessarily Wrong

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Principle ArticlePeople naturally take pride and ownership of their work. This pride drives them to believe their approach is the right or, at least, the best method for performing the activity; often closing off any consideration of other methods.


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Business Performance Assessment Program Warning Flag 5 – Identifying Mostly Strengths

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Warning Flag ArticleAll organizations, including the best of the best, have room for improvement and those not improving inevitably find themselves falling behind competitors. Self-critical evaluations are therefore critical to achieving continuous performance improvement and remaining competitive. Evaluations identifying mostly strengths offer little opportunity for organizational growth.


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