Ready, Set, Go- Achieving Top Performance For Your Company

In working with clients a key focus is on how to gain performance improvement for the business. Whether performance improvement means increased productivity, reduced expenses and increasing sales the following are the top 5 areas most often identified and focused on to achieve positive results:

1. Identify Core Goals: not only is identifying the core goals necessary it often becomes just as important to eliminate non-value added work to free up the resources to achieve the desired results (tough thing to do in today’s times but absolutely necessary).

2. Assess Staff Performance - Often the right people aren’t in the right roles and new top performers are needed to take the business to the next level.

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Forget 'Survivor Guilt' - Now It's 'Survivor Anger'!

It's a great relief to be coming out of the recession, but there are special challenges for employers, says Attorney Matthew Effland. Employees' expectations and management's plans may be at odds—and that might turn survivor guilt into survivor anger.

When the workplace is pressurized or uncertain? Here's what studies show:

• 87% of employees say they are less likely to recommend their company as a good place to work
• 64% of companies say that productivity decreases
• 81% say that customer service decreases

Current employees openly resent the potential of new hires. Why? The survivors took pay cuts and here come the "chosen ones" at premium salaries.

Now you’re ready to hire again though and the survivor’s are ANGRY! What can you do about it so that productivity and performance continue to increase throughout the company?
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