Accelerate Your Performance

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Accelerate Your Performance episodes

May 20, 2019The Best Chance for Success
It’s the leader’s responsibility to provide a structure within the organization to help people know when they’re not performing at their best. When the right system is in place, leaders can support their employees in owning their own performance. Sometimes that support may appear in the form of transitioning someone to a different role or out of the organization. In this episode, we address actions leaders can take to provide every opportunity for employees to be successful.

This episode addresses questions, such as:

What can we do when someone works hard with a good attitude and is not able to achieve results?
What actions should leaders be taking to help employees gain the best opportunity to succeed?
When is it time to shift someone to a new position or shift them out of the organization entirely?

The Best Chance for Success is the ninth episode in a series describing the performance curve and performance conversations, beginning with Ep. #16 High Performers: Who Are They?.

Recommended Tool:Performance Plan Template

Recommended Learning: Correct Because You Care

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15 min
May 13, 2019Hitting the Wall
How do the varying human performance levels affect the overall organizational results? What happens when leaders avoid managing employee performance levels? We achieve higher performance with less variation when we tighten the performance curve. In this episode, Dr. Pilcher addresses how leaders have an important role in managing performance to keep results moving in a positive direction.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
What is a performance wall, and why do organizations hit it?
Who are the only people who can do something about low performers and keeping the organization from hitting the wall?
How do I get everyone on board?
What happens when our high and solid performing employees get tired of carrying low performers?
Hitting the Wall is the eighth episode in a series describing the performance curve and performance conversations, beginning with Ep. #16 High Performers: Who Are They?.
Recommended Tool: Performance Plan Template
Recommended Learning: Correct Because You Care & Pushing Through the Wall
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19 min
May 06, 2019Connecting with Solid Performers
60 – 70% of individuals in our organizations are solid performers, making them the backbone of every organization. When we give them our best, they will give their best to us and our organizations. This week, Dr. Pilcher discusses how to connect with your solid performers. When you give solid performers feedback the right way, a relationship is built that will retain, motivate, and inspire your direct reports.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
How can I help develop and provide support to my solid performing employees?
How do I retain the majority of my direct reports?
What is the best way to provide feedback to my solid performers?
Connecting with Solid Performers is the seventh episode in a series describing the performance curve and performance conversations, beginning with Ep. #16 High Performers: Who Are They?.
Recommended Reading: The Feedback Fallacy By: Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall
Recommended Learning: What High Performers Look Like – How to spot them & not them &
High Solid Performer Support
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20 min
April 29, 2019Connecting with High Performers
Are you a high performer? Do you want to retain your high performing team members? This week, Dr. Pilcher offers an approach for connecting with your high performers and Erica Callaway joins her as a guest to model what this connection should sound like. Meeting with high performers the right way, so they know they are valued, moves the organization to achieve results.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
How do we retain our high performing employees?
What should a conversation with a high performer sound like?
What are high performers looking for from their leaders?
Connecting with High Performers is the sixth episode in a series describing the performance curve and performance conversations, beginning with Ep. #16 High Performers: Who Are They?.
Recommended Tool:High Performer Re-Recruitment Conversation Template
Recommended Learning:Re-recruit High Performers
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16 min
April 22, 2019Low Performers: Who Are They?
Low performers take up the majority of our time as leaders and cause their better performing coworkers stress. Today we address the types of low performing behaviors and what happens if we ignore them.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
How do we enable low performers?
What are low performer behaviors?
What about mean employees?
Low Performers: Who Are They? is the fifth episode in a series describing the performance curve and performance conversations, beginning with Ep. #16 High Performers: Who Are They?.
Recommended Tool: Differentiating Staff: Leadership Challenge
Recommended Learning: Low Performer Conversation
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21 min
April 15, 2019Don't Step in Quicksand
While we navigate through work and life, we may occasionally find ourselves in over our heads. The harder we try to fight, the deeper we fall. For leaders Dr. Pilcher recommends 4 ways to help your solid performers avoid the quicksand and an additional 3 ways to avoid stepping into the quicksand yourself.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
How can we guide our teams to perform and persist during challenging times?
What can you do if you’re in over your head, trapped as if you’re stuck in quicksand?
How can you help team members who are having trouble?
Don't Fall in the Quicksand is the fourth episode in a series describing the performance curve and performance conversations, beginning with Ep. #16 High Performers: Who Are They?.
Recommended Reading: Helping a Coworker Who’s Stressed Out by: Liane Davey
Recommended Learning: Low Solid Performer Support & Low Solid Performer Conversation Guide
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20 min
April 08, 2019Solid Performers: Who Are They?
Middle solid performers make up half of our organization and have a lot to offer. It’s important for leaders to give them direction and opportunities to grow. Today we focus on 5 actions you can take to best support middle performers.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
What do middle performers want from their leaders?
How can you help middle performers progress up the performance curve?
How can you provide middle performers with the right feedback?
Solid Performers: Who Are They? is the third episode in a series describing the performance curve and performance conversations, beginning with Ep. #16 High Performers: Who Are They?.
Recommended Reading: The Power of Moving the Middle: Transforming Middle Performers Into High Achievers by: Jack Spartz
Recommended Learning: Differentiating Staff Performance
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20 min
April 01, 2019The Fire in the Belly
When we speak of performance, we think of both an individual’s will and their skill. Do the members of our teams have the desire to do their best work and continue to get better? Today, we focus on the tremendous impact we can have on organizations when we have strong will or fire in our belly.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
What does it mean to have a ‘fire in the belly’?
What do I do with a high performer who poisons the work environment with negativity?
What is more important than passion?
The Fire in the Belly is the second episode in a series of episodes describing the performance curve and performance conversations, beginning with Ep. #16 High Performers: Who Are They?.
Recommended Reading: The Power of Moving the Middle: Transforming Middle Performers Into High Achievers by: Jack Spartz
Recommended Learning: Recognizing Low Will
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19 min
March 25, 2019High Performers: Who Are They?
What are the 5 characteristics of high performers and why they are crucial to keep on your team? High performers do their best and their best makes a difference; they deserve for us to give our best to them. Learn how to identify your high performers, and how to retain them using the 3 techniques provided this week.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
How do high performing employees act?
How do we retain our highest performing employees?
What do high performers want for from their leaders?
High Performers: Who Are They? is the first episode in a series of episodes describing the performance curve and performance conversations.
Recommended Reading: The Irreplaceables: Uncovering the Real Retention Crisis in America’s Urban Schools
Recommended Learning: Themes of High Performing Employees
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17 min
March 18, 2019Building a Bank Account of Trust
Dr. Pilcher explains what an emotional bank account is, and why it’s necessary to maintain a positive balance with your teams and coworkers in this week's episode. Master how you can provide feedback for improvement without damaging your relationships and find out 7 ways to nurture an emotional bank account with your team.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
How can I develop positive relationships with my team?
How do I provide constructive feedback to my team without ruining our relationship?
How do you balance completing tasks with maintaining relationships?
Recommended Reading: Leadership: The Emotional Bank Account by: Lucas Pols
Recommended Learning: Emotional Bank Account
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15 min

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Accelerate Your Performance is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Janet Pilcher, Managing Director of Studer Education and author of Hardwiring Excellence in Education. Every week, Janet…