Paul Boston presents Innovative Employee Engagement To Boost Performance November 25 & 26, 2014, Toronto | Reinventing Performance Management Topic Brief Through employee engagement, your company can sustain a higher level of individual commitment and productivity that will contribute to improving your bottom line. This session looks innovative employee engagement practices to boost performance more […]
Do More with a Lot Less
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Oct 2
For over a decade we have heard about many companies wanting to more with less. Terms such as right sizing, improved effectiveness, working with limited resources, restructuring and operational efficiency all describe the desire to do more with less. But looking at the statistics you have to wonder if we are actually doing more with […]
What Would 3 Minutes 59.4 Seconds Mean in Your Business?
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Sep 17
The year was 1954 and the thinking at the time was that a 4-minute mile could never be broken. The experts said it was humanly impossible to run a mile under 4 minutes. Humans were just not designed to run that fast. However, like a lot of things in life, this was more of a […]
Are Your Goals SMART or SCAMP?
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Sep 2
Back in 1981, George T. Doran developed the goal-setting and achievement strategy called SMART. According to this strategy, goals should be: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. For many people, teams, and organizations, this goal-setting approach has long served as the cornerstone for achieving organizational goals and objectives. Today, the challenge for many organizations and […]
How Do You Prepare for Your Next Meeting?
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Aug 28
In our busy working worlds people are often overwhelmed by too many meetings. With so many meetings to attend, we end up arriving late and often unprepared. Then once everyone gets into the room, it takes about 15 minutes for people to settle in and to decide what the agenda should be. Going from meeting […]
80/20 Rule for High Productivity
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Aug 6
The 80/20 rule, sometimes referred to as the Pareto principle, very simply states that 80% of business results (effects) come from only 20% of our activity (cause). Within the new global competitive economy, this ratio suggests that human performance professionals are now more essential than ever within organizations to try to improve this performance ratio. […]
Is your Business Plan as Good as an Athlete’s Training Plan?
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Jul 24
Business plans are one of those documents you first learned about in business school. Plans serve a great purpose towards achieving clarity on market conditions, organizational goals and objectives and establishing financials. Plans serve a great purpose for any business seeking venture capital, onboarding new employees and ensuring the business has a clear direction on […]
Are You Going Beyond Motivational Speeches to Motivate Your Team?
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Jul 10
As a manager within your business you know how important it is to have everyone on your team producing their best work. It is the only way companies remain innovative and creative in a competitive marketplace within our global economy. However, when talking to managers, one of their biggest challenges I hear about is the […]
You are Still Doing Mid-Year Reviews, aren’t you?
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Jun 12
It’s that time of year when many businesses are conducting mid-year reviews, and most people at all levels in the organization are just dreading the process and think “here we go again”. Over the last year there have been several articles published about companies removing their formal review process, since it was not helping their […]
10,000 Hours towards Performance Mastery
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Jun 5
In 1993, K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Römer (1993) published a breakthrough study called “The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance.” The study set a benchmark on the time a person must invest in deliberate practice (10,000 hours or about 10 years) to become an expert in his […]