Focus on Results
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Focusing on results is the cornerstone of effective management practices. Achieving results for an organizational group requires that objectives are identified and defined, meaningful metrics are established, and progress is tracked and managed.
Effective supervisors learn to communicate a vision, set priorities, develop and execute plans to achieve the desired outcome. Demonstrating leadership, positive communication, and cooperation promotes a focus on results for members of their organizational group, its partners, and collaborators.
Focus on Results in Practice
Behaviors
- Manages time and schedules to maximize efficiency
- Identifies department goals and confirms staff actions necessary to achieve goals
- Defines metrics to monitor progress toward achieving department goals
- Helps employees set priorities to complete most important work first
- Provides employees with guidelines that foster a customer-centric focus
- Identifies underperforming employees and provides guidance and support to improve their work product
- Simplifies processes to enable employees to work in a more efficient manner
- Collaborates with employees, alumni, and the community to achieve defined college/unit goals
- Outlines best practices and goal-setting targets to achieve college, department, or unit strategic intent and benchmarks for success
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Driving Organizational Performance: Leadership Behaviors That Foster Results, Maria Gonzalez & Thomas Nguyen, Frontiers in Psychology, (2024)
Results-Oriented Leadership: Impact on Employee Productivity and Engagement, Samuel Clarke & Linda Emerson, Journal of Leadership Studies, (2024)
Performance Management Strategies That Deliver Results in Hybrid Work Environments, Priya Singh & Mark Dawson, Journal of Business Research, (2023)
How Data-Driven Decision-Making Improves Results in Complex Organizations, Lisa Chen, Harvard Business Review, (2023)
The Role of Goal Setting and Accountability in Driving Business Results, John Davis & Sarah Patel, Sustainability Journal, (2023)
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The Execution Factor: The One Skill That Drives Success, Kim Perell, HarperBusiness, (2024)
Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow, Dominica DeGrandis, IT Revolution Press, (2024)
Results: Think Less, Achieve More, and Change the World, Gary Keller & Jay Papasan, Portfolio, (2023)
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results, Christina Wodtke, Wiley, (2023)
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, John Doerr, Portfolio, (2023 edition)