How effective organisations are delivering high performance Productivity is vital but insufficient for successful competition. Knowledge workers should be delivering more than productivity. Organisations need performance which is driven by innovation focus and productivity. And the most consistent and effective ideas are coming from teams of knowledge workers. The best ideas are seldom created [...]
Having a clear vision is very powerful. In my last ever corporate job, I spent 45 minutes a day in the parking lot, writing my three daily pages of journal notes. People were encouraging me to hold an exhibition. Each day I would start my journal by writing, “What are you doing about your exhibition?” [...]
This is a painting of a friend, Vera. She kindly allowed me to use one of her photos from Facebook.as material for portrait practice. I did more than 15 drawings and 11 watercolour portraits from that photo. And they are all completely different. In terms of likeness, some are better than others but even [...]
So what about the non-performers? They don’t deliver and they demotivate the more enthusiastic members who are left wondering why the weak links are tolerated by the leadership. But before you go and sharpen your axe. There is self-reflection required and a softer approach to consider.
If 90% of the highest paid and best educated employees around the world are not high-performing what can you do to improve this shocking figure? Where would you begin?
In a global study of knowledge workers, 77% said they were high performing. However, only 10% of the respondents could provide evidence of high performance.
