How to Develop a High
Performance Work
Culture
Why Won't They Change?
Have you experienced the downside of a failed effort to install high performance work practices
such as lean six sigma, operational excellence, or total quality management? Would you like to
avoid wasting time and money as you try to put a similar improvement effort in place? If so, you
would benefit from reading and using this book.
Sending people to training or asking them to change won't work - you have to change the systems
that have created and are reinforcing the culture you already have in place!
Most improvement efforts fail because the existing work culture does not support a high
performance way of thinking and acting. If you want to change a work culture, you have to start
by changing the work systems that driving, supporting, and encouraging your existing workplace
behaviors and beliefs. This book will help you learn more about how such changes can be made in
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a simple, but effective, manner, and it will give you tools for assessing the degree to which your
existing work systems support high performance work practices.
What will you get in the "HP Work Culture " book?
166 pages of ideas and examples to help you begin changing your
existing work systems so that they are less likely to hold back your
culture change and performance improvement efforts
Over 30 examples of tools and techniques that are used by high
performance organizations to help shape their work culture
Answers to 90 frequently asked questions about high performance work
practices
14 team exercises to help you create work systems that support and
encourage a high performance work culture
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What is the focus of my "HP Culture " book?
On an almost daily basis, I hear people talk about wanting to change their existing work culture. At
the same time, I can easily sense the frustration that they are experiencing when they try to make
this happen by only sending people to training sessions or using new buzz words on the job. In this
book, I have really tried to explain in a simple, yet focused manner, how your key work systems
need to, and can, be changed in order to help shift your existing work culture towards higher levels
of performance. The tools and concepts are easy to use, and the examples I use to explain how
they are used are based on approaches and practices that high performing organizations have
already experienced success with.
Why is this book important?
The content of this book focuses on the types of system changes you need to make in order to get
all of your people to begin thinking and acting in a high performance manner on a consistent basis -
in other words, to begin developing a high performance work culture. If you want to make high
performance thinking a daily habit across your organization, or simply within your own team,
consider spending the time to read this book and complete the exercises that it contains.
Who can benefit from reading and using this book?
The "How to Develop a High Performance Work Culture " book is designed to help anyone who
wants to begin developing a high performance work culture within their work group, facility, or
organization. The concepts, examples, tools, and exercises that are described and included will
also help you better support any type of improvement initiative, such as lean six sigma or
operational excellence, and do so in less time and at a lower cost. The “HP Work Culture ”
workshop can be customized to meet the needs of any workplace.
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Would you be interested in my two day onsite "High Performance Work Culture "
workshop?
Would you like to experience the course, taught by the author himself, that will help you put into
place the system changes that are presented in the book? Would you like to have a team of your
people work together in a workshop facilitated by this product’s creator? If so, consider holding a
“High Performance Work Culture ” workshop for your company, and start laying the foundation for a
high performance work culture now! In general, for a 15 person class, your daily cost per person
falls between $100 and $135!
Who wrote this book?
The “How to Develop a High Performance Work Culture ” book and workshop was designed by
Kevin McManus, who has served as an industrial engineer, Production Manager, Plant Manager,
and Director of Quality during his 27 year business career. He has also served as an Examiner,
Senior Examiner, and Alumni Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for nine
years. Kevin also writes the monthly Performance Improvement column for Industrial Engineer
magazine.
Would you like to learn more about high performance work cultures?
Click on one of the following links to learn even more about this book or about other things you
need to consider as you try to make a culture change happen in your organization:
Book table of contents
How to Develop a High Performance Work Culture
Workshop
Do You Have a High Performance Work Culture?
" The Change Problem" article
" The Challenge of Changing Culture " article
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