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What's in this for you?. Every executive says she wants to create a culture of excellence in her organization.But only a minority of organizational leaders are willing to pay the price.Complacency, impatience and a natural resistance to change are hard to overcome.Success is a huge barrier.For t
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1. Creating a Culture of ExcellenceTwenty Practical Strategies for Committed LeadersA Presentation for GENESIS HealthCare System
Kendall L. Stewart, MD, MBA
November 12, 2004
2. Whats in this for you? Every executive says she wants to create a culture of excellence in her organization.
But only a minority of organizational leaders are willing to pay the price.
Complacency, impatience and a natural resistance to change are hard to overcome.
Success is a huge barrier.
For those who are serious and willing to pay the price, here are some practical strategies that will work.
After listening to this presentation, you will be able to
List three common barriers to organizational excellence.
Identify three practical strategies for creating a culture of excellence.
Explain why these strategies make sense.
Explain how to deploy these strategies effectively in your organization.
3. What are some of the common barriers to an organizational culture of excellence? Executives who dont get it.
Executives who are unwilling to walk the talk.
Executives who are unwilling to pay the price.
Executives who are too impatient.
Executives who refuse to face reality.
Executives who are unwilling to forego ladder climbing for 5-10 years.
Executives who indulge in temper tantrums and blaming.
Executives. Period.
5. What practical strategies will promote the creation of a culture of excellence? People
Embrace discomfort.
Identify champions.
Develop emerging leaders.
Define the Rules of Engagement.*
Extrude negative leaders and trade up.
Planning
Align the organization around your strategic values.
Adopt a framework for organizational excellence.
Adopt a process improvement methodology.
Deploy a simple strategic planning process.*
Take the long view.
Process
Design and deploy an organizational change process.
Deploy leadership teams throughout the organization.
Document key organizational processes
Empower a limited number of interdisciplinary process improvement teams.
Engage stakeholders in real work.*
Performance
Identify key performance indicators.
Demand comparative data.
Set measurable short- and long-term goals.
Insist on detailed action plans.
Deploy balanced scorecards (BSCs) throughout the organization.*
6. Define the rules of engagement. Why should I?
Creates discomfort
Clarifies expectations
Identifies inappropriate behavior
Sets the tone
Holds leaders accountable
Marginalizes negative leaders
Gives the zealots hope How can I?
Identify flawed leadership behaviors.
Describe appropriate behavioral alternatives.
Write them down.
Provide practical examples.
Sell them to key opinion leaders.
Confront and extrude noncompliant leaders.
7. Deploy a simple strategic planning process. Why should I?
Engages stakeholders
Allows everyone to contribute
Converts passive participants into informed partners
Changes novices into experts
Aligns the organization
Focuses on performance
Demands action plans
How can I?
Fire your consultants.
Identify a local champion.
Design the process yourselves.
Deploy it.
Focus on resultsnot the process itself.
Produce a Balanced Scorecardnot a binder.
Measure its effectiveness.
Improve it over time.
8. Engage stakeholders in real work. Why should I?
Invites emotional commitment
Encourages teamwork
Calls for expertise
Creates mutual history
Promotes pride in accomplishment
Documents and preserves intellectual capital
Results in more effective bonding than mere social activity
How can I?
Identify an organizational need.
Outline a project.
Clarify the desired product.
Organize a project team.
Sell the value of the objective.
Invite commitment.
Recognize and reward participants.
Proselytize others.
9. Deploy balanced scorecards throughout the organization. Why should I?
Clarifies objectives
Aligns focus throughout organization
Forces deep reflection about measures that matter
Emphasizes measurable results
Calls for comparative data
Promotes benchmarking and the search for best practices
Demands ongoing action planning
Facilitates continuous improvement How can I?
Make a religious commitment to pursuit of excellence.
Aspire to be data driven.
Decide on your strategic objectives (values).
Identify meaningful measures that support each strategic objective (value).
Report baseline data with brutal honesty.
Set realistic targets.
Find comparative data.
Monitor organizational performance over time.
10. What have you learned? The pursuit of organizational excellence is hard.
It is an unending process, not a moment.
Few leaders will make the commitment, and fewer still will stick it out.
For those who do, this journey becomes the foundation for a meaningful career.
Just getting by is a lot easier, but the pursuit of excellence is more satisfying.
It actually requires less effort to lead a successful organization than a mediocre one.
Leaders cant produce organizational excellence by themselves, but they can discourage it with no help at all.
The strategies that successful leaders adopt in their pursuit of excellencewhile always customized to their own organizational cultureare remarkably similar.
Committed zealots are available and at your service.