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Dramatic change is occurring in organizations across the globe. Business cycles and opportunities that used to last for months or years now change in weeks or even days. Expectations continually change and become more demanding. Organizations and employees have to respond quickly or find themselves in a struggle to compete and survive. In response to these dynamics, organizations now must transform their overall performance environment.
When we transform performance we are literally flipping the performance model for most organizations. We move away from top-down driven, compliance-oriented performance, to employee engaged performance, where the individuals are driving their own performance. This is done through what we call O-L-E Performance. Organization enabled, leader supported, and employee-led performance.
Organizations enable talent performance by connecting everyone to a clear organizational purpose supported by clear organizational values. They enable it by chartering and supporting employee-led teams that develop options and recommendations which then turn into actual results.
Leaders support talent performance by evolving from top-down planning, directing, controlling and managing people and processes, to inspiring, enabling, facilitating and developing employee performance, accountability and change. Leaders should create and support the environments for active employee engagement and cultivate a lead where you are performance environment, not attempt to manage their people and activities.
And finally, develop the environment where employees don’t just submit an annual survey and wait for something to happen. If you want sustained performance, engage them at the very start to turn feedback into change. Magic happens when organizations intentionally enable and support employee-led actions and activities.
OLE Performance is the key to shifting performance results from top-down driven to one that is enabled by the organization, leader supported, and owned and led by the employees. This performance transformation will lead to enhanced and sustained performance by the employees and the organization.
