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This Female Surgeon Teaches How To Win In Business (And Medicine)

This Female Surgeon Teaches How To Win In Business (And Medicine) | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.forbes.com - July 29, 2022 4:56 PM
Women occupy most of the U.S. medical school student body, 52.7%, though they are underrepresented in the surgical field. Plastic surgeon Dr. Kriti Mohan is challenging these statistics.
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Dr. Mohan 5 work principles are keys to success.  Which one of her principles do you find most difficult or lack?
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Creating High-Performing Teams

From www.youtube.com - March 30, 2015 2:47 PM
Paula Caproni, professor of management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, outlines the keys to creating high-performing teams.
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What school grade (A,B,C,D,F) would you give top management on the three key factors she sited in her framework?

 

What would you add to the list, if anything?

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how to build high performance teams-team building Malaysia

From www.youtube.com - February 9, 2015 4:54 PM
The main characteristics of high performance teams. This video describes how trust forms the foundation of high performance teams followed by strong leadersh...
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When you look at all of the variables, where would you start to take your team to the next level of performance?

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What is the Best Type of Culture for Performance?

From www.youtube.com - August 18, 2014 5:21 PM
We are often asked how to create a high performing culture, and high performing cultures can actually look many, many different ways. There isn't one way to ...
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Consistency, no double standards for anyone, working hard at reinforcing the right things, and leadership living and encouraging the culture by example everyday.

 

You must believe in your culture to live it.  Your actions show others what you believe it.  Words are worthless.

 

Achieving and sustaining a culture in your company is hard work but worth every bit of the effort it takes.

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DI-CI: what works...

DI-CI: what works... | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From di-ci.ca - August 1, 2014 3:35 PM
DI-CI: what works... | The purpose of the website is to foster conversations about effective and differentiated instruction and about collaborative inquiry as a way of learning for educators. You are encouraged to make connections to your own practice and context.
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Do you do anything like this to help people learn in your culture?

 

Do you purposely look for best practices of others?

 

If not, why not?

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House, Senate Talks to Reform the VA Close to Collapsing over Money

House, Senate Talks to Reform the VA Close to Collapsing over Money | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.theblaze.com - July 24, 2014 12:20 PM
Efforts by the House and Senate to agree on a bill to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs appeared close to collapsing Thursday over how to pay for billions of dollars in spending. The fight raises the possibility that Congress will leave for its August break without passing...
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This is what happens in a poisoned culture when doing the right things right are put on the back burner because of side issues.  The right thing in the VA is to walk the talk for each and every veteran that served this country.  Service to our veterans needing help is paramount.  Paperwork, political posturing, suffocating bureaucracy, ineffective communications, and all the other challenges can be overcome by focusing on service and a 'can-do' attitude.  There are alternatives.  Activate them.

 

Any fool can make a great system fail.  But people working together can make a poor system work.  It is time to make the VA system work for our veterans.  

 

The VA culture is terminal as it stands without senior adult leadership stepping up to the plate to lead by example and blowing away all the barriers in the way of providing award-winning service to our veterans as the #1 priority - with a sense of time is of the essence.

 

Talk is cheap!  Enough talk.

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Create a high performance organisation with wisdom of effective work teams - Daily Mirror

Create a high performance organisation with wisdom of effective work teams - Daily Mirror | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.dailymirror.lk - July 23, 2014 1:43 PM
Create a high performance organisation with wisdom of effective work teams
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Look at these 12 points and grade (school grade A, B, C, D. F) one team you are on for each point.

 

Which point is your strongest?

Which point is your weakest?

What would you work on first to make the biggest difference and why?

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Turnover drains profits and productivity - Post-Tribune

Turnover drains profits and productivity - Post-Tribune | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From posttrib.suntimes.com - July 23, 2014 1:35 PM
Turnover drains profits and productivity
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Employee turnover is a serious profit-draining issue with small firms and contributes to poor productivity as well as a disengaged workforce.
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What do you do at your company when someone leaves for any reason?  Interview them to learn what could be improved?  Ask them what was the determining factor in their decision to leave?   Find out if they had the power and they could have made any 2 changes while they worked at the company, just what would those 2 changes be and why?

 

Turnover is expensive.  But it is really much more expensive if you don't learn from it.  

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4 Things Your Boss Won't Tell You About Advancing Your Career - Forbes

4 Things Your Boss Won't Tell You About Advancing Your Career - Forbes | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.forbes.com - July 19, 2014 9:18 PM
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4 Things Your Boss Won't Tell You About Advancing Your Career
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Those who have successfully advanced in the workplace—and hope to continue on that path—know that working for the right leader is the first logical step to becoming a leader.
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Yes, these are good points.  But not all organizations work this way.

 

3 things that work almost every time to earn opportunities others won't get a chance for are:

 

1) a great can-do attitude

2) asking 'what else can I do to help"

3) excel at each task you do and exceed expectations

 

Everyone loves a team player with a great attitude and work results they don't have to worry about.

 

 

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Effective Leaders - Character Traits - Small - SRF

Effective Leaders - Character Traits - Small - SRF | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.pinterest.com - July 18, 2014 9:21 PM
"Lead by example. If you demand excellence, model excellence. People learn from observing." - Lee Cockerell ("Lead by example. If you demand excellence, model excellence.
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How many leaders do you know that meet these expectations?

 

Lead by example with honesty eliminates many elected officials today.  WHY?

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If You Aren't Mentoring, You Aren't Leading

From www.inc.com - July 18, 2014 9:10 PM
Chip Bell explains why mentoring is a vital part of the 'learning organization.' (Be an inspiration to someone's career. Lead by example...
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Do you have any effective mentoring taking place in your organization on purpose?

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Obama to Nominate Robert McDonald as Head of Veterans Affairs - NBCNews.com

Obama to Nominate Robert McDonald as Head of Veterans Affairs - NBCNews.com | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.nbcnews.com - July 18, 2014 9:02 PM
NBCNews.com Obama to Nominate Robert McDonald as Head of Veterans Affairs NBCNews.com “Any time you put highly specific performance measures in place, and you're reporting them publicly … they become high stakes and it encourages people to do...
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The problems at the VA are not new.

 

Do you think just putting performance measures in place will do the trick?

 

What about the need to overhaul the civil service employment system so people have to EARN their jobs everyday and meet expectations?

 

How about stopping paying bonuses when the organization is chronically failing its customers?

 

Where does putting customer service before paperwork enter in?

 

How about timely, accurate communications on needs and broken processes?

 

Where would you start if you were named to head the VA? 

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Who ya gonna trust? - Wyoming Business Report

Who ya gonna trust? - Wyoming Business Report | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.wyomingbusinessreport.com - April 18, 2014 10:22 AM
Who ya gonna trust?
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Their actions follow their words, which intentionally reinforces the character culture of their organization and builds a high-performance business model.
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It is a simple fact that trust is earned everyday by actions.  It can be destroyed quickly.  When people say 'trust me' they need to reflect on why they have to ask anyone to 'trust me'.  Wouldn't that indicate that trust hasn't been earned?

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The Learning Gap Infographic

The Learning Gap Infographic | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From elearninginfographics.com - August 17, 2015 10:54 AM

The Learning Gap Infographic presents the difference between learning hours spent of middle class kids and kids born into poverty. Middle class kids have likely spent 6,000 more hours learning than kids born into poverty. Parents – 220 hours Pre-school – 1,395 hours After-school and... http://elearninginfographics.com/the-learning-gap-infographic/


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In a weak culture, unacceptable performance is rewarded.  The standard for what is acceptable gets lowered.

 

Our public education system is not best in class.  Education bureaucrats are getting rewarded for unacceptable performance.  Too many kids are not getting an education that prepares them to effectively compete .

 

What kind of questions would you ask if you were a top education leader in your state, county, or city?

 

How about some of these?

 

1) when are going to stop passing kids that can't do the work at the current level?

2) how are we going to close learning gaps with a sense of time is of the essence?

3) what needs to change in our approaches to teaching to drastically improve learning results?

4) if what we are supposed to achieve is kids learning at a high level then what about all the resources allocated to transportation, duplicate administrators, government edicts, athletics, ...?

5) what do other cultures with high performance education systems do differently?

6) do you ask the teachers what they need to close gaps and energize the kids to learn at a much higher level?

7) do you have the courage to think out of the box and go against the politically correct that rewards blind compliance to government ideology?

 

"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn" -- Ignacio Estrada 

 

Isn't it time to rethink our approach?

 

Yes.  It is way past time!

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Elisabeth Pagach's curator insight, May 26, 2014 8:35 PM

This makes me realize how important it is that all children have access to preschool, field trips and after school programs.
Dr. Deborah Brennan's curator insight, May 28, 2015 4:32 PM

Our students of poverty enter school behind and by the time they are in middle school, the achievement gap has widened.  Often the answer is to remove the struggling students from electives and place them in remediation courses for math or reading, robbing them of the rich contribution arts makes to the lives of middle and upper class children. Innovation must guide our efforts to close the gap, providing not just remediation but enrichment to our children of poverty.
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Peter Docker - Leadership and Start With Why Culture Expert

From www.youtube.com - February 9, 2015 5:10 PM
Peter Docker is passionate about enabling others to be extraordinary. Working with individuals and organizations inspired by Simon Sinek's theory of "The Gol...
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What actually happens in your work culture when a big challenge is given to the people?  

 

Can you give one example where people broke the challenge into smaller parts and made achieved something the organization had never accomplished before?

 

If not, where does progress break down?

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Top 10 Ways to Lead by Example - Kathy

Top 10 Ways to Lead by Example - Kathy | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.herdwise.net - August 18, 2014 9:41 PM
Good leaders must lead by example. Through their actions, which are aligned with what they say, they become a person others want to follow. When leaders say one thing but do another, they erode trust, a critical element of ...
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Great points.  How do the leaders you know score on each point?

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Helloooooooooooooo STRATEGY - Huffington Post

Helloooooooooooooo STRATEGY - Huffington Post | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.huffingtonpost.com - August 18, 2014 5:13 PM

 temHelloooooooooooooo STRATEGY
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How often have you seen leaders who are high-performing in their own contexts crumble when they are transferred to a different cultural context? This leads towards a bug-bear of mine: fragmentation.

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How about one team, one fight, one focus like the Army motto?

 

How about dropping the government buzz words and just respecting all people as people?

 

Divisiveness at the political level has poisoned internal company operating cultures.  Politicians are not the role models to follow.

 

The article asks many very good 'why' questions the beginning.  Answer those questions and forget all the theories.  Actions speak.

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New 2014 Employment Laws in California Infographic

From www.slideshare.net - August 1, 2014 3:25 PM
New employment laws could affect your California business' day-to-day operations and company policies in 2014. Check out this overview of the new laws in our n…
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Your high-performance work culture gets suffocated by bureaucracy.  This is an example of laws that add cost and questionable value.  Keep adding requirements and oversight like this and many firms will no longer be able to compete because of excessive overhead costs.

 

How much cost do you incur in your operation to comply with government laws and regulations?

 

Don't know?  Shouldn't you?

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To The Point News - MAY WE LIVE UP TO HIS LEGACY

To The Point News - MAY WE LIVE UP TO HIS LEGACY | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.tothepointnews.com - July 24, 2014 12:01 PM
To The Point News - the oasis for rational conservatives
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Like our freedom, a company's culture must be fought for, protected, and handed on.  It doesn't survive if the fundamentals are neglected.

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Leaders need to be team players - Milford Daily News

Leaders need to be team players - Milford Daily News | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.milforddailynews.com - July 23, 2014 1:37 PM
Leaders need to be team players
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Great teams have leaders who act more like members, because high performance teams don't need to be led - in fact, an overbearing leader can often get in the way of a team reaching it's potential.
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A leader is a great team player if he/she simply removes the barriers in the way of teammates so they can excel.

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Unleashing the power of teams to deliver superior customer value

Unleashing the power of teams to deliver superior customer value | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.linkedin.com - July 23, 2014 1:21 PM
Early on the Journey, when you start a Lean Transformation in any company, you usually find that the level of capabilities on the operating teams is low and therefore, continuous improvement work is ("The three areas of concern when moving a team ...
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When you read this article ask yourself how hard  you really work at continuous improvement of all of these aspects to increase your value to your customer and to your teammates?

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The 5 Secrets of Great Bosses - Entrepreneur

The 5 Secrets of Great Bosses - Entrepreneur | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.entrepreneur.com - July 18, 2014 9:23 PM
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The 5 Secrets of Great Bosses
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When you think of your best boss ever, what did he or she do that created an inspiring work environment for you?
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Which trait do you think is the most important?

 

Why?

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21 Ways to Know You're Leading a Great Team

From www.inc.com - July 18, 2014 9:16 PM
Here's a checklist to find out. (This month's competency has been: Building High Performance Teams. Are you?
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This is a good list to see how ingrained your bureaucracy really is today.

 

How many actions on the list do you do?

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3 Tips to Create a Kick Butt Culture - Business 2 Community

3 Tips to Create a Kick Butt Culture - Business 2 Community | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.business2community.com - July 18, 2014 9:07 PM
3 Tips to Create a Kick Butt Culture Business 2 Community We've all heard how important organizational culture is to success…most have heard the names of some businesses often used as examples of high performance cultures - Zappos, Google,...
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What school grade (A, B, C, D, F) would you give to your organization to indicate the size of the gap you must overcome to have a Kick Butt Culture  in these 3 areas?

- Communications

- Leadership

- People

 

Where would you start to close the gaps?

What would you do first?

Why?

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What Stops Your Organization From Having a Winning Culture?

What Stops Your Organization From Having a Winning Culture? | High-Performance Work Culture | Scoop.it
From www.linkedin.com - July 18, 2014 8:51 PM
If the CEO is committed to creating possibilities from “nothing”, he or she cannot transform those possibilities into reality as a lone wolf.
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What is the language in your organization?

 

Do you let the failures of very visible government initiatives lower your standards and expectations?

 

Is finger-pointing and making excuses an accepted practice?

 

OR do you under promise and over produce to constantly build credibility?

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