Episode A.023 People Element

Introduction
This week we continue our focus on the post pandemic re-opening of business. Other than dealing with customer and employee fears, there is nothing different or special about today's show except urgency. Unlike other expansions at the end of a contraction, this was not a structural - it was imposed. Normally a contraction (recession) is a result of over supply and decreasing demand awaiting a unplanned event to prick the bubble. In this case the demand still exists with diminished supply and we have sufficient information to predict the beginning of an expansion. The purpose of IBGR programming this month is to prepare the entrepreneur for the turnaround. it will require acting with urgency over the next 4 months.
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Show Objectives
Best Practices
A best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to any alternatives because it produces results that are superior to those achieved by other means or because it has become a standard way of doing things, e.g., a standard way of complying with legal or ethical requirements.

This show focuses on the best practices for the relationship between people being led and their leaders plus what should the infrastructure provide.
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What You Need to Know
In preparation for the show notes for A.023, we assembled all of the best practices for the People or Talent function with an emphasis on startups and early growth companies. The best practices underlined represent the minimal elements required to build the People Function and the focus of the To Do Segment of the Show..

Role Models
Vision and Values = Behavior
Support for Business Objectives
Building in Customer Requirements
Local Control of Resources
Front Line Continuous Improvement
Remove Nonvalue
Build Right First Time
Responsibility = Authority
Individual Treatment
Self Esteem and Accountability
Encourage Initiative
Reward for Business Results
Overall Respect
Share Business Information
Linked to Processes
Written Expectations
Self-Managed Scorecards
Management Face Time
Integrated Platform
Task Procedures Available
Soliciting Input


What You Need to Do
Leadership

• Role Models
• Responsibility = Authority
• Individual Treatment
• Self Esteem and Accountability
• Encourage Initiative
• Reward for Business Results
• Share Business Information
• Written Expectations
• Management Face Time
• Soliciting Input

Employees

• Vision and Values = Behavior
• Support for Business Objectives
• Front Line Continuous Improvement
• Remove Nonvalue
• Build Right First Time
• Linked to Processes
• Linked to Processes
• Self-Managed Scorecards

System & Processes

• Building in Customer Requirements
• Integrated Platform
• Task Procedures Available

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