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A powerful framework for going beyond the corporate buzzwords to generate real business results
In The Performance Culture, leadership expert Khalil Smith and veteran storyteller Chris Weller deliver an authoritative and practical instruction manual for every leader who wants to create healthy, high-performing cultures. The authors explain how to get your employees aligned, engaged, and collaborating with each other using compelling stories and contemporary research.
In the book, you'll learn to turn the temperature down on some of business' hottest conversations, focusing on what actually creates top-tier performance without ignoring the pressing issues that influence the realities of work. You'll also find:
Strategies for maintaining a strong focus on business results with an increasingly vocal employee base demanding action on social and political issues
The four key ingredients to creating high-performing teams: awareness, behaviors, community, and systems
Practical advice for making the most of your existing diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies
A can't-miss guide for today's leaders, managers, directors, executives, founders, and anyone who wants to build more successful and durable teams, The Performance Culture is an effective and essential roadmap that transforms how diverse and inclusive workplaces succeed.
Contents
Introduction xi
Work isn't working
Chapter 1 A Big Misunderstanding 1
Amid the debates over profits, politics, and buzzwords, we've missed work's best purpose
Chapter 2 The ABCS of Culture 15
Appreciating the importance of awareness, behaviors, community, and systems
Chapter 3 Start with Awareness 31
Where are you paying attention?
Chapter 4 Awareness Practice 45
Forget what you "know," ask deep questions, and do your research
Chapter 5 Behaviors Over Beliefs 57
Focus on actions over ideologies Copyrighted Material
Chapter 6 Behaviors Practice 71
Be specific, use plain language, and make it shareable
Chapter 7 Cultivating Community 83
Be a Good Neighbor to Your Colleagues ix
Chapter 8 Community Practice 97
Identify your crucial stakeholders, shift your perspective, and craft the story
Chapter 9 Systems Cement the Change 111
How to make your culture run (almost) on autopilot
Chapter 10 Systems Practice 125
Anticipate and evaluate, map the flow, and keep systems supportive
Chapter 11 Putting It All Together 141
When effective culture just looks like high performance
Epilogue 161
Building cultures that win
Notes 169
Acknowledgments 175
About the Author 177
Index 179
