Building Engaged Team Performance: Align Your Processes and People to Achieve Game-Changing Business Results
- 3h 55m
- Dodd Starbird, Roland Cavanagh
- McGraw-Hill
- 2011
Harness the Power of Your Most Valuable Resource—Your Workforce!
Process improvement approaches like Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise have worked wonders for countless organizations, but in the drive for true excellence, these approaches are only one important part of the formula.
Building Engaged Team Performance explains the next wave of business improvement: driving breakthrough gains by integrating process improvement with “the people side” of performance.
Breaking new ground in the world of organizational improvement, performance management expert Dodd Starbird teams up with Roland Cavanagh, coauthor of the bestselling The Six Sigma Way, to present a system for aligning and optimizing processes and the efforts of any organization’s most valuable asset: people.
Combining the principles from Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, Lean, and Socio-Technical Systems, Engaged Team Performance helps you harness the massive potential of human performance that is not captured by process improvements alone. Illustrated through real-life stories, Building Engaged Team Performance offers a step-by-step program that shows you how you can more than double the productivity of your business. The authors’ client examples are a diverse group of transactional and manufacturing organizations that have used Engaged Team Performance to:
- Increase employee efficiency by 50% and save millions of dollars
- Consistently deliver on critical customer requirements
- Provide visual data for instant decision making
- Create realistic staffing models for sustainable capacity
- Establish standards for both team and individual performance
- Develop leadership that facilitates team ownership of execution
Building Engaged Team Performance provides the tools for building a superior system that optimizes effectiveness of outcomes for customers and efficiency of resource usage. Never before have human performance and process improvement been so closely linked in a single, sustainable method. Catch the next wave of business improvement with Engaged Team Performance.
About the Authors
Dodd Starbird is a managing partner at Implementation Partners with 20 years of global business leadership, process excellence, and performance-improvement experience in consulting, sales, finance, manufacturing, systems, quality, operations, human resources, and distribution management.
Roland Cavanagh, PE, a managing partner at Implementation Partners, brings 34 years of leadership experience to clients in consulting, product design, manufacturing, systems, quality, and operations in a wide range of industries. He is coauthor of the The Six Sigma Way and The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook and lead author of What Is DFSS?
In this Book
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Engaged Team Performance at a Glance
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“As the Pendulum Swings”—A Brief History of Adventures in Business Improvement
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From the Outside In: Understanding the Customer Experience
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Individual Goals: What You Measure Is What You Get
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Is It Process or Performance? Both!
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Changing Process: The GPS Story and the Power of Lean Six Sigma
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Power to the People: Facilitation and the Cycle of Change
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The Right Performance Metrics: Effectiveness and Efficiency
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Team Goals
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The Fluid Organization of the Future: Making the Transformation to ETP
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Expectations, Rewards, and the Motivation to Excel
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The New Age of Collaboration: New Paradigms in Organization and Competition
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Eight Steps to Deploying Engaged Team Performance in Your Organization
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The Role of Senior Leadership in Enabling Engaged Team Performance
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Breakthrough: The Future of Engaged Team Performance
