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•Small Business Performance:10 Essential Criteria For Choosing Your Target Market
Whether you're just starting out or you've been in business for a little while and seem to have lost your way, this article points out the absolute basics for marketing. And marketing to the right audience. Amazingly, these simple truths are more often ignored than practiced. Even old hands may profit from this reminder of who they serve and why.
•Career Performance:Is Your Elevator Pitch Working?
Do you use an elevator pitch or speech to present yourself when you have only a few moments of contact time? If you haven't written and practiced one yet, start now. Here is an article that will tell you why and how.
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Performance:An Open Letter to Young Managers
This article is written as if it were a letter of advice from an experience manager or executive to a new or fairly inexperienced manager. Whether you take all the advice -- or even need it -- the article outlines the basic need-to-know stuff that most experienced managers, having learned the hard way, want to pass on. If you don't need it yourself, perhaps you know a young manager who can benefit.
•Management Performance:Just Ask and Listen
Want to help your employees improve performance? Want to know what they are thinking, so you can correct false impressions and errors in your communications? Want to build good employee relationships? Here's a good start.
•Career Performance:Networking for Introverts - Avoid Panic and Build Relationships
Even if you are not an introvert, you may find the idea of networking a bit intimidating. Here are a few suggestions for making this very necessary process easier.
•Management Performance:Management: The Five Common Mistakes of New Managers
Are you a new manager and finding it difficult? There are struggles that most new managers have in common. The insights in this article may be the solutions you are seeking.
•Career Performance:How Abraham Lincoln Used an Ancient Achievement Principle
Are you skeptical about using visualization? About its effectiveness? Did you know that it has been used for millennia? Did you know that successful athletes used it long before psychologists and coaches started recommending it? Did you know that Abraham Lincoln used it and recommended it?
•Career Performance:How to Feel Happy at Work--7 Secrets of a "Thank God It's Monday" Workplace
Are you in the habit of greeting Mondays with the expression "Oh crap, it's Monday?" Here are seven new habits to form that can transform your expression to "Thank God it's Monday." Wouldn't you really rather enjoy working?
•Career Performance:Time management skills: the keys to success
If there is one set of skills that is most critical to performance improvement it is time management skills. So here's another article to encourage you to develop those essential skills. The more perspectives you have on time management the more likely it is you will find methods that will work for you. This is a good set.
•Book Review:Book Review: Luck by Design: Certain Success in an Uncertain World
The baby boomers have left an uncertain world in which the next generations must work harder for success. Richard Goldman offers some tools and resources to make that work easier and more pleasant.
•Career Performance:Are You Confusing Being Busy with Being Productive?
Sure, you're doing a lot, but are you accomplishing much? You can walk many miles on a treadmill, but you won't leave the room you're in -- which is great if you just want to exercise but no good for going to the supermarket. Make sure that while you're busy you are really getting done what you want to get done.
•Career Performance: Winning at Working: Ancora Imparo
When was the last time you updated your skills? What was the last training you took? Do you keep learning and growing in your profession? People who fail to keep learning and growing also usually fail to get promotions or good raises and are more likely to get laid off in downturns.
•Career/Personal/Business Performance:7 Tips for Effective Reading
Have too much to read and not enough time to do it? Most of us do. Here's an article that will help you do it more efficiently and comprehensively. On the same subject, don't miss my own article, "Double Your Reading Speed Now."
•Management Performance:How To Engage Employees With Technology Based Change
Don't just inform and train employees in the new systems you've established. Make them understand and appreciate the changes by relating the new systems to their work, your business' functions and customer or client service improvement.
•Management Performance:Leadership: How to Say It
Do you want to get someone else to do it your way? Here's a great way to prevent resistance and even get enthusiastic cooperation -- whether from your boss or your teenager.
•Management Performance:Conducting Mid-Year Performance Evaluations
Do you do performance evaluations annually or do you have mid-year evaluations as well? There are a number of advantages to having the semi-annual review, including the opportunity to stimulate new growth and motivate higher performance and productivity.
•Management Performance:Problem-Solving Success Tip: Measure
A problem solving skill set is essential to a managers career. Parts of that skill set are defining the problem, creating possible solutions, knowing when progress in being made and knowing when the problem has been completely resolved. How do you know all of that? By measuring.
•Management Performance:Releases Resistance and Increases Productivity
Do you find resistance, arguments or even annoyance when you try to help some employees (or bosses or coworkers) find solutions to problems they bring to you? Have you come to the conclusion that it's a waste of your time to deal with "some people?" Here's what that's all about and what to do about it.
•Career Performance:The Top 10 Ways to Get Organized
If your performance or productivity isn't up to par, chances are good that you are not organized or perhaps inadequately organized. Here's a list of tips and some suggested resources that may help with your organization and efficiency skills.
•Small Business Performance:Top Ten Strategies for Boosting Small Biz Profits
You may have hear some of the items on this list before, but you've probably never considered others. And as a whole, this list is refreshingly innovating, practical and workable. Try out these ten boosters for stimulating better business and more profit.
•Small Business Performance:Know Your Strengths: Evaluating Your Skill Set
Here is an excellent approach to analyzing your personal characteristics and experience to determine in what businesses or jobs you would excel. It doesn't require you to fill out forms or take tests and might even be enjoyable in addition to being enlightening.
•Career Performance:Work Is A Four-Letter Word
As this guest author says, a job may be what you do for money, but work is what you do for a life. And if you understand the difference, you can come to value your work and be satisfied while you are doing it. Here's how.
•Career/Management/Small Business Performance:Top 7 Keys To Persuasive Writing
The most desirable of the "soft skills" is communication. It is critical to success in any field. And written communication is especially critical in this day of email, web articles, internet social networking, cell phone texting, etc. The ability to persuade your reader to believe something or do something is prized above all. Here are some suggestions for how to develop that prized ability.
•Career/Personal Performance:8 Essential Ingredients to Master Your Time
Here's one of those articles you need to print out and tape to your desktop. It is an excellent recipe for exactly what you must do to use your time to its fullest. Put all of these into your time management mixture and concoct a very smooth, efficient work/life style.
•Career Performance:Changing Your Career? Watch for These Five Top Career-Change Saboteurs
Whether you are changing your career because you want to or because you have to, you are highly likely to resist the change. It is a rare person that thrives on change. Almost everyone tries to keep their familiar patterns of behavior as well as staying attached to the people and places that are comfortable and safe-seeming. So, somewhere along the line in your transition, you'll probably do something to undermine your own efforts. Here's how to recognize the most common sabotage.
•Management/Leadership Performance:Leadership; It's a Matter of Trust
Whether good times or bad, employees' trust in leadership (management) determines performance and productivity. Be sure you have trust and the kind of trust that is stable and enduring.
•Management Performance:Don't Wait to See the Blood
Feedback. We're always told how much we need it. We always know how much we hate it. No matter how nicely put, it feels like criticism. Who wants to be criticized? Especially by subordinates. Here's a great explanation of why and how encouraging feedback and receiving it gratefully is essential to great management.
•Career Performance:Winning at Working: Taking Your Words Seriously
Do you make casual or wishful promises of performance or productivity and then deliver a little late or a little less? Not enough to make folks mad, just enough to be within what you think of as "tolerances?" Think again. No matter how understanding your boss, client or customer, if you build an expectation and then fail to deliver it exactly, you lose credibility. Close enough is not enough. Take your words seriously by making sure you will deliver on your promises.
•Career Performance:You Aren't Single Dimensional -- So Why Is Your Résumé?
Do you understand why a combination résumé may be the best for you? Here's an explanation of how and why the combination style works so well for so many.
•Management/Small Business Performance:What is a Process and Why Should You Care?
Do you want to improve efficiency, save, money, make more money? You know that "dull stuff" you didn't want to memorize in school? The administrative ideas and work you really want to ignore now and get on with the job? It turns out that it can actually help you with your bottom line, in performance and productivity as well as financially. Here's some of it, very well outlined and explained in a condensed package that makes it easy to take and easy to understand why it is so important. Try some. You might like it.
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This is a content site and mini-portal for human performance improvement.
We cover three main areas for human performance improvement:
•Career/Professional
•Educational
•Personal
The content here is provided for three basic interest groups for human performance improvement:
•Employers/Employees (includes professionals & entrepreneurs)
•Teachers (Trainers)/Students
•Individual Self-Development Seekers
There 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 Performance
Human 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 Improvement
Human 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 Technology
Human 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.
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