Mother’s Day and Lots More Too
Last Sunday’s Mother’s Day made me ponder even a bit more than usual.
Now, we all have a mother and a father and, of course, most of us remember them especially on their special days. Perhaps now it could be time to go beyond cards and flowers.
Performance management won’t happen over night
Regular readers of my articles will know that I am a strong advocate for supporting businesses and organisations to develop a positive culture of accountability to ensure everyone concerned sees what needs to be done, owns it for themselves, has a role in solving the issue and goes off to do whatever is necessary to achieve the needed results.
In his own recent article Dan Martin expounds similar sentiments and asks:
“Is performance management simply about managing the way employees perform?”
“If you answered yes, you'd be wrong...” writes Dan “...the process is actually more complex than the phrase suggests and as a result many organisations struggle to successfully embrace it.”
The Enfys Acumen model of organisational development has been addressing this for some time, but why is this approach so relevant?
The Enfys Acumen eBrief No 11 26 March 2007
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Welcome to the March issue of our occasional eBrief.
According to John Steinbeck "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to look after them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." Our work at the Enfys Acumen is very much like that.
One client said to me a week after our last coaching session, “My head is still buzzing, I have now got so many ideas to think about. I’m so excited about my business now. I can’t wait until our next session.”
Helping people to rekindle their passion for life, their organisation or their business is very much my business and the results are speaking for themselves. Helping people to move from dreaming to action is such a buzz.
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Regular readers will know that earlier this year the Enfys Acumen launched a social duty commitment, including the offer of pro bono support to voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) that could not otherwise afford our services. We have already committed to provide a free coaching programme to one organisation in South Wales.
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support VCOs. We are not aware that there is an online facility that could provide
a one-
Although the technology to create this kind of facility is readily available it would take significant time to develop and promote, time that we would be willing to give freely. An initial facility would be available free to VCOs and enhanced features could be made available at a nominal cost to expenses incurred.
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Recommended reading:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Stephen R Covey
The Google Way
Google is an 'Employer of Choice' and receives 250 applications each
time it advertises a vacancy, but to be successful an applicant will have a minimum
of four interviews.
The organisation's number one objective is to only recruit high-
Once the new employee's contract is signed, the company then sends them presents
every week before they join and invites them to lunch with their managers. On their
first day, the new employee finds their desk decorated with balloons, gifts and T-
The lesson is if employees see how important they are -
“Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing a so what attitude.”
Jim Rohn
“Don’t spend your precious time asking Why isn’t the world a better place? It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is How can I make it better? To that there is an answer.”
Leo F Buscaglia
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The Enfys Acumen team and skills development programme -
Developing an outcomes approach to planning and evaluating your voluntary and community project
Wednesday 18 April 2007 Newport (Click here)
NB This workshop is based on the methodology currently preferred by several of the larger grant making funders.
Developing Volunteer-
Tuesday 15 May 2007 Newport (Click here)
NB This workshop will provide a range of cost effective
fundraising tools that can be used by volunteers interested in expanding funding portfolios. It is not about grant applications or organising events.
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