Promise-Based Management in a nutshell.
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Promises are an integral part of every company and while it is self-evident to say that without them nothing would be achieved, they are rarely managed as carefully as other organisational resources.
By crafting good quality promises that are made and measured publicly both the assigner and assignee are many more times likely to deliver, as accountability and transparency motivate positive action.
Teams that apply promise-based management see increased coordination and collaboration, they're more agile and flexible, and employee engagement is improved by generating a sense of ownership.
Hello teamwork, meet Social Discipline.
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Social Discipline is the combination of social influence and personal accountability.
Being accountable to your peers massively increases your focus – meaning you achieve your goals – and hugely increases your sense of satisfaction when you do a great job.
The effect on your team? A big leap in engagement and newly unlocked levels of focus and delivery.
Samewave’s super-simple approach to scoring people’s efforts makes the well-established benefits of performance management more accessible than ever.
By tracking numbers to be hit and regularly repeating tasks you can define someone’s entire relationship with the team, and get immediate traffic signal feedback on progress.
This clarity massively simplifies management and makes it clear to everyone in the team what they should be doing.
The psychological principle behind Social Discipline is called The Free Rider Problem.
The facts are that in a team environment when there is no penalty for under performance and no recognition of over delivery people simply stop trying.
This behavioural pattern has been identified for over half a century, but only now is there a tool that can help teams avoid demotivation and celebrate great performance.
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The Social Discipline Advantage
Offering a long-overdue solution, the arrival of social performance management software provides the ability to address these issues using Social Discipline – a powerful management approach underpinned by proven psychological concepts. This white paper explains in detail the fundamentals of Social Discipline and how it can be successfully deployed to increase employee engagement, productivity and focus.
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Improving Group Motivation and Output
This white paper analyses the impact of the Free-Rider Effect on group performance, and examines three key sources of low motivation. Providing practical advice and action, it also explains how to increase motivation to achieve rapid performance improvements. Several techniques are covered with a particular emphasis on the role of social performance management software.
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Leveraging the Benefits of Promise-based Management
This white paper examines a Harvard Business Review article by Sull and Spinosa. It explains why promises break down and how to use promise-based management to improve agility, coordination, collaboration and engagement. This white paper also addresses how to prevent promise breakdown, including the role of software in implementing promise-based management.
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Leveraging the Benefits of Promise-based Management
This white paper examines a Harvard Business Review article by Sull and Spinosa. It explains why promises break down and how to use promise-based management to improve agility, coordination, collaboration and engagement. This white paper also addresses how to prevent promise breakdown, including the role of software in implementing promise-based management.
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Promise-Based Management
By Donald N. Sull & Charles Spinosa
Promises are a business constant. Employees make promises every-day to colleagues or customers. Social Discipline changes the face of promises in businesses.
If every promise is made and tracked in a public space, for all to see, then there is a social motivation to keep that promise and promises that are kept are good for your business.
The Practice of Management
By Peter F. Drucker
The growth of large scale business in the 20th century is the story of effective management and the primary goal of management is making people productive.
Objectives need to be set and decisions need to be made on a regular basis to keep “knowledge workers” productively turning the wheels of your business.
The Checklist Manifesto
By Atul Gawande
Checklists are a simple and yet incredibly powerful tool. Thousands of lives have been saved in hospitals thanks to the good practice that was made unavoidable by completing a checklist.
Surgeon and author Atul Gawande embraced the concept of checklists in his hospital. Complex tasks were broken down and managed individually and errors were reduced to almost none.
The power of checklists extends to the business arena.
The Balanced Scorecard
By Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
Measuring performance transforms businesses for the better. The gathering and utilisation of this performance information is a critical part of modern business practice.
Studies from a KPMG research institute were published in the Harvard Business Review in the early 90s, establishing the popularity of the ‘Scoreboard’, a simple process for easily and quickly understanding critical performance at any point in time.
Since then it’s become a widely accepted and revered business methodology.
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We believe in the game changing benefits of Samewave and the amazing scientific and literary concepts behind it, so we’ve compiled a series of detailed whitepapers exploring each of these topics in-depth. Happy reading!
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