Leader’s Focus

Translates and integrates enterprise strategies into objectives and action plans... plans, prioritizes, organizes, and measures goal progress... ensures strategies, objectives, action plans, and expectations are meaningful and well understood.

Linking Learning Solutions to Business Objectives—SAMPLE

Employee Group

Learning solutions to address Competency Gaps

Competencies
Impacted

Critical Performance Behaviors

Specific Performance Goals

Local Goals

Functional or Regional Objectives

Strategic Objectives

First line supervisors and other leaders

 

 

Dialogue

 

 

Coaching

 

 

Goal Setting

 

 

Meeting Effectiveness

 

 

 

Communications

 

Relationship Building

 

Business Acumen

 

Develop Others

 

 

Results Orientation

 

Impact and Influence

Clearly and thoroughly describe new employee’s roles and responsibilities and ensure they are fully understood and committed to

Guide employees in the creation of performance measures, goals, and action plans that are consistent with the employees’ role and aligned to higher level goals; ensures employees commitment to action plan

Reviews employee performance against action plans and makes cost-effective adjustments to ensure achievement of performance goals

Determines employee development needs and ensures that cost effective development plans are created and executed

Effectively plans, leads, and follows-up meetings:

  1. ensures desired outcomes are clearly defined, communicated, and committed to;
  2. ensures effective processes for surfacing issues, soliciting input, managing conflict, and reaching decisions;
  3. ensures decisions are translated into measurable action steps that are understood, agreed-to, and assigned to participants;
  4. follows-up after the meeting to ensure action steps are taken; evaluates success of meetings for future improvement; communicates meeting minutes to ensure common understanding of agreements reached.

 

Shorten the time it takes to get a new employee to self-sufficiency by 25% by Sept. 1, 2002

Shorten the cycle time for meeting participants to progress from issue identification to execution of agreed-to action steps by 35% by Sept. 1, 2002

Shorten the weekly staff meeting from 90 to 60 minutes while maintaining the same amount of output (decisions reached, information conveyed) by Sept 1, 2002

Increase employee productivity and thus reduce overtime and contractor labor costs — target of $250,000 reduction through savings of 6,100 employee hours for 2002

Lower Cash Period Costs, particularly labor cost, without impacting staffing levels of regular employees

 

Raise credit rating to investment grade (to increase access to capital markets and decrease cost of capital)

Increase EPS

Increase EBITDA

Decrease the debt/EBITDA ratio

 

 

Based on the High Impact Learning System® by Triad Performance Technologies, 2002.