Performance Agreements vs. Performance Appraisal/Evaluations

Throw away the old ideas about performance evaluations or appraisals. While they may help to guide you out of the forest, they lack the direction giving attributes needed after you reach the road to stay on course.

The performance agreement on the other hand will guide all of your actions while you are in the forest and once you clear the trees giving purpose to the direction and defining the results agreed to based on principles.

Attributes of the Performance Agreement:
  • Represents a clear, up-front, mutual understanding, and commitment regarding expectations.
  • Purpose: Quantity and quality of desired results.
  • Guidelines: Principles, not policies, practices, or procedures drive actions.
  • Resources: Identifies all financial, human, and physical resources.
  • Accountability: Schedule progress reports, Specify performance criteria and consequences-state both negative and positive rewards that reflect consciences of actions.

The performance agreement gives the other person total freedom within the guidelines to accomplish agreed to objectives.

Each person becomes empowered to judge themselves based on the performance agreement, feedback, and results based on the principles of trust, integrity, and accountability.

While performance agreements may take longer to set up, using guidelines of integrity, and principles of trust, the rewards in personal and business development will continue without needed periodic evaluations. Without daily micro-managing, and without conflict, stress, and misunderstanding.

Both parties know exactly what is expected, where to receive help, and what the desired outcome or results that are expected.

We can help with establishing basic guidelines for setting up performance agreements within the organization, and continuing to strive for better results, less problems, frustrations, and misguided interpretations.

Jeff Nis

509-209-1431

jnis@centurytel.net


The Power of Strategy

The right strategies are what makes a business, or person a success or failure.

The correct strategy will almost always guarantee success, where as the wrong strategy will waste time, energy, and resources. The challenge is to have the resources, and ability to create the correct strategy, or select a proven strategy from a similar situation.

In this new age of everyone wanting everything NOW, and not willing to, "pay the price" of waiting, hard work, and dedication as it was, "back in the day". Creative strategies have become very important, and are far less draining emotionally, and physically.These new creative, intelligent, customized strategies that most of us are not aware of can be changed, and adapted to fit most any situation to ensure success in business, or personal endeavors.

Strategizing is a skill that when mastered can benefit you forever in your career, business, and personal life.

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"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Effectiveness is deciding what to do better." Peter F. Drucker

How can a business coach help?

A business coach can help, by helping you to create a,
"Perfect Workplace Environment"
By improving attitudes of both yourself, and employees you will naturally drive improved customer satisfaction. Improved customer satisfaction drives revenue growth, creating a sense of accomplishment, and paves the path to success.

Coaching provides:

1) Highly Productive Environment
--Personal frequent attention
--Focus on problem solving
--Creative motivation, and inspiration
--Early detection of problems for quick resolution
--Encourages focused experimentation

2) Collaborative Coaching
--Resolve interpersonal conflicts
--Integrate all points of view into a final product
--Turn staff into partners, not just workers

3) Customer Service
--Anticipate customer needs
--Create steps for immediate innovation
--Commit to excellence in every area
--Go from closing a sale--to creating a relationship

4) Visionary
--Identify a thorough and compelling vision
--Develop simple and unforgettable language
--Assimilate vision through employee driven processes

5) Problems
--Identify and eliminate current problems
--Raise standards and extend boundaries

6) Performance and Revenue Driven
--Identify and resolve processes which limit revenue growth
--Identify sustainable revenue sources
--Challenge to operate in a larger way
--Set higher targets

7) Strategies
--Identify fresh approaches and strategies to reach targets
--Train staff on all levels to become innovative strategists

8) Coaching Environment
--Learn key coaching skills
--Become a coach and leader to staff
--Speak honestly, completely, and constructively

9) Standards
--Encourage, train, and motivate employees to drive for higher standards in:
A) Performance
B) Pace
C) Quality
D) Profits

10) Communicate
--Integrate and enjoy challenging paradoxes
--Articulate thoughts, directions, and perspectives, cleanly, and clearly
--Find key words/concepts for open sharing

If you knew that you had all the professional support and structure that you needed to perform at your best, think of the goals you could reach.

How can I help????

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Call me today.......509-209-1431.......to set up an appointment.
Jeff Nis





BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF YOU
If YOU, the entrepreneur/business owner are not still passionately excited to be in your business, doing what you you do best.
Then your business is suffering.

Each and every day should be
GRAND OPENING DAY!!!!!
Approached with excitement, nervousness, passionate purposefullness, and that can't wait to get started feeling. If this is not the case than you are either too deep in the mud fighting the daily dragons, or just plain bored, and unhappy.
If this is the case YOU must become the most selfish person in your organization.
Selfish with your time, energy, and contribution to the business.
Perhaps you don't have the drive, and energy level you once had tp produce the extraordinary results that are required of you. It may be you need more time to re-energize, and recharge.
To produce amazing results you must feel amazingly good.
PUT YOURSELF FIRST!!!
Ahead of employees, and yes even customers/clients.
Old rule, "If mama's not happy, no one is happy"
You know this to be true---Think about the times you are having a bad day--most of those times, everyone has a bad day.
Does your staff gauge the mood of the day, by the mood of the boss???
Use any, and all resources available to be the best you can be everyday.
Rest, exercise, eat properly, relax, meditate.
Do whatever it takes--it will pay you back 10 times over.
If you need help with this work with a coach, best friend, mentor.
Once your personal needs are met, your efforts will become naturally focused ON your business, and the environment you can create, rather than IN your business. You will naturally have that passionate purposefullness, that is needed to nuture, develop, and create the wonderful environment that your employees, and customers want, and deserve. Everyone will have that excited, happy to be there feeling, and your business will prosper more than you ever thought possible.
Customers/clients want to do business with a successful business, where the team is motivated, happy, excited, to be taking care of their every need, want, and desire.
Give them the chance to see, feel, and experience your best
EVERYDAY, EVERY TRANSACTION
LET YOUR PASSION SHINE THROUGH!!!!
BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF YOU.
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