Improving Productivity

As an executive, one of your biggest challenges is keeping your employees motivated and their productivity high. Most people do possess a genuine desire to be productive in their workplace, but over time lose their focus and ambition to go that extra mile. So, what can you do to remedy this stalled performance and improve productivity throughout your organization?

CLG has developed applications based on our Applied Behavioral Science methodologies that will help you identify and remedy barriers to productivity that exist within your company. Often, by reshaping the daily practices of managers and identifying the high impact employee behaviors that really matter to performance, new focus and discretionary effort results are possible, having a profound effect on productivity and, ultimately, your bottom line.

By focusing on the critical variable that is often overlooked -- the behaviors of your managers and leaders – CLG will help you avoid the pitfalls of failed performance improvement programs: leaders who don’t walk the walk, employees who never receive positive or constructive feedback about their newly adopted behaviors, and poor or nonexistent performance measurement systems.

CLG’s Performance Catalyst^®

Our experienced consulting team can help you implement performance improvement programs that lead to results that last. Using proven tools like the Performance Catalyst^® process, your team will reach new levels of productivity.

This powerful leadership process aids in aligning critical work behaviors to reach targeted results. During its implementation, consultants share their objective assessment of your group’s:

• Performance improvement potential
• Leadership gaps
• Change readiness
• Realistically attainable paybacks

Upon implementation, the process activates and sustains behaviors that build greater success at each level of your organization. When the behaviors of all employees are aligned to your targeted business results, the environment for growth is enhanced. Consequently, your culture is transformed from one that merely gets the job done to one that is productivity-focused, and your organization flourishes.

Through this process, your frontline managers and supervisors learn how to better:

• Define behavior-based action plans
• Set daily leadership priorities
• Remove barriers to frontline performance
• Verify completion of critical actions
• Track and share progress toward objectives

Senior leadership teams learn to make behavioral changes that enable them to:

• Steward the Performance Catalyst process
• Engage all levels in data-driven accountability dialogues
• Use behavior change as a powerfully reliable leading indicator
• Clearly measure how targeted behaviors drive targeted results

Performance Evaluation

To evaluate performance at all levels, our DCOM^® Model may be implemented. This model was built to help you assess the four essential building blocks of performance in people and organizations:

• Direction: Are your people crystal-clear on the goal and what is expected of them? Are the metrics clear to everyone?
• Competence: Does your team have the skills and knowledge needed to work effectively? Do they have the necessary collaboration, work management skills, and economic literacy?
• Opportunity: Do they have the resources, technology, information, support, and authority to work effectively?
• Motivation: Do your employees enjoy their work, or is it just something they “have to do”? Are the right consequences in place to motivate them to work with confidence, commitment and enthusiasm? Do they receive real-time, data-based feedback and consequences that are aligned with your corporate direction?

There are a number of realistic options available to improve your enterprise-wide productivity. Before you begin to tackle your productivity issues, take a look at what CLG can do for you. We have successful solutions that have been tried and tested in a variety of situations, with the scientific methodologies to support them.

Learn more about CLG’s Performance Catalyst^® process and the DCOM^® Model here.