The Emel Group Champions Performance Management in Nigeria
Over forty years ago, Mr. M. L. Asnani founded a small, family-run trading business with the goal of offering quality goods at an affordable price to the people of Nigeria. Initially, with its first product of small sewing machines, the business employed half a dozen people. Today over 500 employees work for the Emel Group...
The Path to Sales Power
Sales meetings, sales quotas, sales conferences, sales training...all such initiatives typically include a lot of talk about selling better and selling more, but then the sizzle slowly turns to fizzle...
The Powerful Link to Sustaining Lean-Six Sigma Gains
When Mike McCarthy, author and Lean facilitator, recently published his book Sustain Your Gains (2011, Performance Management Publications), John Kaemmerlen, Lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), was very pleased with the book’s content and title. “I think Sustain Your Gains is perfect because it focuses on the key outcome that so many companies struggle with—how to keep the process and the gains going,” says Kaemmerlen.
Creating a Profit-Focused Workplace
Dr. William B. Abernathy, performance improvement consultant and scholar, once arrived at a client’s chain restaurant location only to find all of the employees on strike in front of the building. Sometimes management specialists have to do hours of research to get to the bottom of a client’s problems, but this time the problem was written on a big yellow sign posted on the wall...
Creating a Profit-Focused Workplace
Dr. William B. Abernathy, performance improvement consultant and scholar, once arrived at a client’s chain restaurant location only to find all of the employees on strike in front of the building. Sometimes management specialists have to do hours of research to get to the bottom of a client’s problems, but this time the problem was written on a big yellow sign posted on the wall...
Is There Muda in Your Methodology?
Muda is the Japanese word for waste, and is commonly used in Lean terminology. Do you know how much of your effort in implementing Lean or Six Sigma at your location is wasted?
Giving Them the Business: Generating Performance that Pays
In 2009, as the United States slid into recession, most people were happy to keep their jobs, much less receive extra money in their paychecks. Not so with the team members of the Bob Barker Company...
Stakeholder Pay: An Alternative Compensation System that Reduces Unemployment and Stabilizes Profit Margins
Recession, inflation, regulation, taxation, market demand, global competition, the minimum wage, cheaper foreign labor, technology, unions, and a changing workforce are some of the reasons given for layoffs...
Jun Ishida - Changing the Way Japan Works
In its ongoing mission to disseminate positive behavioral methods to organizations worldwide, ADI formed its first strategic alliance in Asia with Jun Ishida...
Liberty or Doughnuts?
Kenny Comeaux’s story of involvement in behavioral science is unique for many reasons, not the least being that his interest surfaced both above and below water...
No Silver Bullets for Building Better Bosses
When managers consider which coaching model will provide just the ticket that they need to improve performance...
Perfectly Motivated People - They do much more than they are paid to do
For many managers, perfectly motivated employees do what they are paid to do, just what the job description states.
New Hire Training
Behavioral Approach Can Lead to Significant Training ROI
Premier Bank Yields Better Results
Data Show Implementation of Precision Leadership Survey in Conjunction With 12-Question Employee Engagement Survey Delivers Stronger Results
Bridging the Gap with OBM
Marius Rietdijk, Ph.D.
Are Women Really the Fairer Sex? Gender and Ethics at Work
Do women think and behave differently than men when making ethical decisions?
An Executive View: Dr. Heinz G. Buschang, Formerly of Kodak
Shares how behavior impacted his success in leadership and in teaching
The Role of the Establishing Operation in Performance Management: Changing the Value of Consequences
Whether you are a novice or a pro, you have probably noticed that sometimes some antecedents and consequences work...
Sustainability is More Than a Movement: Where’s Behavior?
We all know about going green. While we see it as a movement for preserving our global resources, what we don’t see is that it is masses of people changing their behavior for the good of the earth...
Decision Making in Uncertain Times: An interview with Donald Hantula, Ph.D.
An interview with Donald Hantula, Ph.D.
A New Look at Choice-Making Behavior
Tom Critchfield, Ph.D.
NUTS! When Leadership Abandons Ethics in the Name of Profit
You can't pick up a newspaper or turn on the news these days without hearing about the salmonella problem originating in the Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in Georgia...
Expert Performance: Apologies to Dr. Ericsson, but it is not 10,000 hours of deliberate practice
I appreciate the emphasis that Dr. Ericsson’s research has brought to the importance of experience in the development of expertise as opposed to some innate intelligence or talent that is often assumed to be beyond ‘training’. In fact, however, it cannot be hours or years of practice that makes the difference.
Paying the Stress Toll
A series of articles by ADI highlighting the high cost of workplace stress to employees and employers...
Defeating Terrorism by Knowing Our Enemies, Our Friends and Ourselves
Reactions to Terrorism, Reinforcing Terrorism and Terrorism's Self-Justifications
Grassroots Political Change - A Success With Performance Management
Recently, a 10,000-member nonprofit association, whose mission is to protect and preserve Florida's environmental resources, became involved in a legislative battle with its chief adversary-a better-funded 300-member business association...
Sticking It to Stress
Fran A. Swan, a certified stress management trainer, teaches a 30-second stress relief exercise using stickers an antecedent to relaxation.
PIPs Instrumental In Changing Behaviors At Sprint
In the Winter 1997 issue of Performance Management Magazine, Ron Proctor, director of Network Systems and Services at Sprint, and Pam Turner, manager systems planning and training, discussed their experience with PM Basics...
Sprint Pilots PM Basics Train-the-Trainer
Sprint, a global communications company, is a leader in integrating long distance, local, and wireless communications, a specialist in data communications services, and the world's largest carrier of Internet traffic...
A Quality Monitoring System
Ogden R. Lindsley, founder and developer of Precision Teaching and fluency methods, created a semi-logarithmic chart used for tracking performance frequencies per unit of time...
Taking Your Courses Online
Rapid technology advancements and the lure of anytime-anywhere training has prompted many organizations to begin converting their instructor-led...
Designing a compensation program that motivates and produces a profit-driven workplace
A compensation program that will actually improve and sustain key employee performances must conform to behavioral principles. Wages and salaries...
Employee-of-the-Month Programs
The following is a reprint from the March/April issue of "Competitive Edge Magazine"...
From the ADI Vault
This article was originally published in 1999 but the technology implemented is still applicable today. Read how one firm used Precision Leadership...
The Science of Success: Creating Great Places to Work
In times like these, when economic instability, changing conditions of the workplace, and uncertainty reign, some companies are able to create...
What is Performance Management? An Interview with Aubrey Daniels
The following interview with Dr. Aubrey C. Daniels, founder of Aubrey Daniels International (ADI) and the behavior-based management process...
Anger at Work: People, Places, and Pulse Pushers
Leona HelmsleyThe Abusive Boss "The Queen of Mean," Leona Helmsley, spent an entire career cruelly abusing the employees of her hotel empire...
