1. Alternate Strategies for Performance Improvement
Cyclone SHRM
January 12, 2012

2. What is the success rate of your performance development plans?
According to Lominger International the average ROI for individual development plans is 11%.

3. Critical Success Factors
Awareness
Acceptance
Willingness to act
Focus
Strengths and talents
Mission critical skills – managing weaknesses
No fatal flaws

4. Steps to Improve Performance
GAP analysis
Establish goal
Choose path
Create action plan
Define timeline

5. Paths to Improvement (Paths to Improvement - Korn/Ferry Leadership and Lominger Intl.)
Deeper Exploration
Insight
Exposure
Direct Skill Building
Development
Enhancement
Good to Extraordinary
Rerailment
Alternative Paths
Substitution
Workaround
Compensation
Demonstrating Skill
Marketing
Skill transfer
Confidence building
Accept the Consequences
Redeployment
Capitulation

6. How to Choose? Skill level Time available Learning styles
Derailer, untested
Weak, average, strong, outstanding
Overused
Time available
Short term
Long term
Learning styles
VAK

7. How does development happen?
70% - on the job experience
20% - other people
10% - courses

8. How to Manage Around a Weakness (Marcus Buckingham)
Stop doing it
Find the perfect partner
Offer up one of your strengths – change the task
Change your perspective

9. Let’s Practice

10. Saving Graces (Paths to Improvement - Korn/Ferry Leadership and Lominger Intl.)
Approachability
Boss relationships
Compassion
Humor
Integrity and Trust
Interpersonal savvy
Listening
Understanding others
Of the eight, which do you believe is the most powerful compensator for various faults and weaknesses?

11. Five Fatal Flaws for Leaders (Zenger and Folkman, The Extraordinary Leader)
Inability to admit and learn from mistakes
Lack of core interpersonal skills and competencies
Lack of openness to new and different ideas
Lack of accountability
Lack of initiative

12. What are the benefits of exploring different paths for development?

13. Max DePree
We cannot become who we want to be by remaining who we are!