Watch video presentation and get a FREE performance management kit at http://www.lifecycle-performance-pros.com This presentation discusses gaining employee acceptance and getting employees in a high performance mindset. He discusses methods for achieving employee acceptance and the value of each method. And he provides you with a checklist to make sure all the necessary processes are covered for gaining employee acceptance

1. Gaining Employee Acceptance and Getting
Them into a High Performance Mindset

2. Methods for Gaining Employee
Acceptance on New Initiatives
• Involving employees at all levels
• Making sure employees understand objectives
• Striving for improvement instead of judging past
performance
• Getting visible support from executives and senior
management
• Challenging employees to act immediately
• Enabling them to monitor results
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3. Involve Employees at All Levels
• Allow all employees to participate in the
development of the performance program
• Establish growth opportunities for employees
• Teach them how to identify KPI (key performance
indicators) and to produce results
• Do not use initiative for the purpose of ranking,
rating, or singling out people or support groups
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4. Make Sure Employees
Understand Objectives
• Communicate corporate, team and individual
performance objective
• Explain how their individual roles contribute to
team and organizational goals and objectives
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5. Strive For Improvement vs Judging
Past Performance
• Encourage improvement
• Do not judge past performance
• Establish baseline and base success on continuous
improvement
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6. Get Support From Executives and
Senior Management
• Performance initiative must look like a priority of
senior management
• Use emails, newsletters, town hall meetings and
morality speeches to communicate management
support
• Employees must believe that the performance
initiative is important
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7. Challenge Employees
• Identify an area for improvement
• Develop a better process
• Get employees to commit to improvement in that
area
• Get them to act immediately
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8. Enable Them to Monitor Results
• Provide tools to self monitor performance
• Develop performance monitoring plan
• Give employees access to performance data and
reports
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9. Employee Acceptance Checklist
Checkpoints Yes No
1. Is your performance initiative viewed as a method of
improving current performance versus judging or attacking
current performance?
1. Are all affected employees aware of the initiative?
1. Do all employees have the opportunity to partake in the
planning of performance goals?
1. Does this initiative have complete support from the CEO?
1. Are employees viewing this initiative as a challenge?
1. Do employees know exactly what they are being measured
on and what best practices they can implement in order to
improve performance?
1. Do employees see an opportunity to better understand their
operations as well as other operations which relate to their
function? In other words, do they see this initiative as an
opportunity to grow or try something else within the
organization?
1. Do employees understand your organization’s objectives?
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