Performance Excellence Solutions

Work can be heaven, or it can be hell! How we choose to frame it will have a large bearing on how we and our employees experience it and whether or not they step into each day actively engaged, fully creative and driven by a sense of purpose. Few organisations would admit to intentionally creating a toxic work environment, but then why are there so many out there? What is it that we are doing, besides our best intentions, which keep us locked in less than optimal patterns of performance? Let's step back and start to tease apart the tangled strings, to peel back the onion, to take a look under the hood. Let's start by looking at ourselves, our own assumptions, habits and behaviours. Let's accept that we are all striving to become a better version of ourselves, and that sometimes we all have moments where we are less than our best. We are all sometimes inclined to think that any solution needs to match the size of the problem. Greater effectiveness is a function of leverage, finding small things which, when amplified, can have a massive impact both horizontally and vertically. Seldom are these answers immediately evident, but with a bit of perspective and reflection they naturally start to reveal themselves. We have spent the last 100 years teaching people how to be robots. Now we have robots that outperform people. Our challenge for the next 100 years should be teaching people how to be people, because that is what we owe to ourselves and to humanity.