Performance Management System Software | Business Coaching And Consulting

My frustrations are at an all-time high…unlike our revenue. We have implemented scorecards and business management systems to try and increase our efficiencies. Some have increased - but not enough. It still takes too long to get my initiatives implemented. Too many just die on the vine. I am sick and tired of not being able to get things done on time, or on budget. 

It’s not that people don’t care…I just don’t think they realize how critical these initiatives are not only to their jobs but also to the future of this business. We must execute like a well-oiled machine, not like a hand-cranked generator. I want nuclear fusion. 

We need some way to link everyone’s work to more than a pay check. We must motivate people to engage daily, not just before the close of the budget year. People must think innovatively on their own instead of expecting someone else to do it. I know they see ways we can cut costs and improve quality. If we can save money now, we can expand our business in other ways. That is real crisis management. We have got to harness the power of our people’s brains and backbones. 

If you want to create a culture of achievement not entitlement, Performance Path® can get you there. Our software system enables management to tap individual passions, link them to corporate strategies and objectives, and steer a purpose-driven workforce to success.

Performance Management Systems - Economic Shift

Increase Performance While Containing Costs

Managers must understand the Business Drivers outside and within their company.

Outside Business Drivers

Over the next five years millions of baby boomers will retire. No doubt they will be spending less and possible looking for part time work. The demographics are changing around the world forcing dramatic changes to business models. Read Harry Dents “The Great Depression Ahead.”

A simple assessment of risk may include identifying the risk factors and rating them on their potential impact and likelihood of occurrence. Next, consider the possible scenarios and decide how you would structure your organization to effectively deal with them.

What are the products or services offered today?

What areas are most profitable areas now?

What will remain profitable in the future?

What will your company look like in five years?

Restructure to increase resilience and competitive advantage.

Economic Shift | Business Management Consulting | Staff Appraisals

In these turbulent economic times it is imperative to increase efficiency and retain the commitment and loyalty of our employees. Many organizations will cope with the current difficulties by reducing budgets, cutting prices and lowering head counts. While this may be momentarily prudent, more must be done to sustain long term success.

Performance Path ® is a unique and effective performance based program which drives leadership, identifies key performance, provides a results driven reward program - Incentive Cache ™ and a proven track record of improving productivity by creating a culture of achievement not entitlement.

Job Link Training | Incentive Cache | Employee Motivational Tool

Transferring classroom attendance to work competencies often requires additional training and support from supervisors. Unlike generic soft skill training such as customer service, leadership or communication, Job Link™ training is directly linked to specific job needs; identifying and creating a direct link between skill training and strategic work needs.

Traditional management and customer service training are ineffective in building tangible links to on-the-job skills. Performance Path ® has developed Job Link™ to break the mold of the traditional generic employee classroom training concepts.

After traditional training most employees anticipate returning to work to “catch up” with work that has piled up while they were away. They receiving little reinforcement from their supervisor for using their new skills as supervisors did not attend the training and don’t what skills were taught there.

Job Link™ creates a closed loop between work needs, skill improvement training and supervisory follow up. The employee’s work skills are reviewed and strategic work needs are identified.

Job Link™ training modules are identified from skill clusters that relate to specific work needs. Participants are given self-assessment to further define and identify their capability level, and these areas are specifically targeted during training. 

Immediately upon return to work, each participant’s supervisor receives a copy of the employee’s performance improvement targets and together they review and select one or two high priority targets to implement, and a review date is set. 

The supervisor uses an Incentive Cache™ to reinforce performance improvement and the supervisor may use an Incentive Cache™ to strengthen the transfer of new or improved skills demonstrated on-the-job. Job Link™ training creates a tangible link between specific on-the-job skills, job-linked training, and on-the-job performance.

Executive Team Building | Appraisal Management Software

Process consulting involves a professional facilitator leading group discussions and using analytical methods or formal frameworks to identify problems or suggest more effective or efficient ways of performing business tasks. Process consultants usually work with senior management or project teams to development future strategies, identify best practices or implement plans that result in the achievement of designated objectives 

One of the analytical tools used to initiate strategic planning with Boards involving dynamic relationships is Perceptual Mapping. Perceptual mapping is an analytical process developed to identify the critical factors affecting long-term business success. The process quickly and easily galvanizes diverse participant opinions into a unified agreement. Participants identify and force rank factors having the greatest impact on their business. The items are charted according to their current performance level. Through this fusion of current performance in high impact areas, a detailed map of critical success factors emerge.

The result - valuable resources are focused where they are needed most; and decision - makers are empowered to develop departmental goals and business objectives that fully support mission and strategy. Aligning all work efforts and resources optimizes organizational effectiveness.

Strategic Mapping Planning | Employee Appraisal System

Strategic mapping is an analytical process developed to align diverse opinions while pin pointing the key result areas essential to long term success. Participants identify and force rank the factors which they believe have the greatest impact on their future success. The items are rated according to their current performance level and plotted on a matrix. Through the welding together of diverse opinions the matrix provides a clear road map indicating current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

With this new perspective, rational and realistic business plans can be easily constructed. Individual team members will be able to confidently create measurable performance objectives aligned with a sense of purpose shared by the entire team. Valuable resources can be focused where they are most needed. Team members will be able to support organization mission, strategy, and goals while making independent decisions.

Strategic Mapping Vision to Action Workshop

Strategic Mapping Overview

Strategic mapping is a strategic planning and execution process. It has been successful used by Fortune 100.corporations such as Chevron, ATT, and Colgate. It provides executive teams with the technology to quickly execution and anticipates bottlenecks and blunders. The process quickly identifies underperforming high impact areas key result areas. Avoid wasting valuable time and money.

Strategic mapping ensures senior management can ...

• Build consensus quickly even with the most diverse membership.
• Envision areas holding the greatest opportunities and failure.
• Generate business alignment.
• Measurably links strategic drivers with the day-to-day actions of employees.
• Track strategic performance by department, position or person.
• Execute strategy changes faster.
• Increase return on investment of money, machines, and manpower.

Fundamentals of Strategic Planning Workshop Overview

No matter how well the strategy is designed, it is people that make it work. It is one thing for business leaders and senior management teams to develop new strategies. It is quiet a challenge to have them successfully implemented. Many strategies fail to deliver their full potential. This can be traced back to four critical success areas.

They fail because;

1. The mission or strategy is vague or unclear. People are not sure what they need to do to support them day-to-day.
2. The values described in the vision, mission and goals are at odds with the existing values and beliefs guiding behavior within the organization.
3. There are no measures to help staff mark progress toward goal achievement.
4. There is no reinforcement for behaviors supporting change.

Business Management Consulting | Performance Appraisal Process

Managers find it easy to plan and follow up on employee assignments. Coaching plans, work assignments or complex projects can be outlined allowing both manager and employee to monitor progress. Alerts are used to remind manager and employee when it is time to review preset progress dates. Performance dashboards allow managers to view past performance as well as ongoing completion of assigned tasks and goals.

Are your managers leaving you vulnerable to expensive law suits?

Most managers recognize the importance of employee documentation. However, it usually remains a low priority until something goes horribly wrong. Attorneys have learned to subpoena all documentation for all employees in a department. Frequently this turns up an abundance of documentation on their client and very little if any on other staff members. This information may become evidence of discrimination against their client. “Continuous Documentation”, may be critical to winning a law suit. Our documentation alert system reminds managers when to document on a regular schedule. Managers can set the alerts themselves or HR can set alerts at designated intervals to search for and send reminders to managers who have not recorded any documentation.