The Excellence Blueprint
“‘High potentials’ will take care of themselves. The great productivity ‘secret’ is improving the performance of the 60% in the middle of the distribution.”
Tom Peters
Exemplary Performance has been able to increase value for our clients across a wide range of industries. We do this by utilizing a consistent approach that leverages your own best performers and replicates their performance, what some have called “internal benchmarking.”
External benchmarking encounters challenges when it comes to implementing lessons learned in the sponsoring organization. What may be a best practice in one business becomes impossible to implement in another due to differing organizational cultures and evolving market dynamics.
Even amid “sub-optimal work environments,” or with less-than-ideal tools and resources, your star performers have figured out how to make things work. They are readily available, inexpensive, aligned culturally, and have rich mental models. We identify their roadblocks to superior performance, as well as the work-a-rounds, transferring that expertise to all performers in a given role. The net result is both a short and longer-term plan for improving organizational performance.
Shifting the performance curve is all about driving results, enhancing revenue, and improving margins. Our model and methodology allow organizations, their leaders, and teams to capture more value with existing resources, and includes:
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