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Paul Limbrey, president of Elkiem shares findings from a 15+ year study investigating the factors that create world class performance.  Elkiem has conducted hundreds of interviews with people who have achieved outstanding results ranging from Olympic athletes to Nobel Prize winners.  They have also studied organizations renown for creating world class performers in science, business, arts, the military, sports, and many other fields.

Want to know what enables people like Nelson Mandela, Sir Edmund Hilary, and Carl Lewis and organizations like Harvard, Juillard, US Military Special Forces, and the Australian Olympic swimming team to achieve amazing performance outcomes?  Find out by listening to Paul Limbrey this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Jim Kirkpatrick, President of Kirkpatrick Partners, discusses his recently published book “Training on trial: how workplace learning must reinvent itself to remain relevant”. Jim explains why training is frequently eliminated during a financial downturn. He argues that training professionals must be extremely proactive in demonstrating that training changes employee behaviors that drive business results. This requires rethinking training design and establishing a “chain of evidence” linking training outcomes to business results.

Most leaders don’t care about training, they care about results. Lean how to link the two together this week on Business Execution Radio.

Kirkpatrick Partners resources:

• Resource Library: Whitepapers, articles, diagrams and podcasts
• Training and Event calendar

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Nick MacIlvaine, Product Executive at SuccessFactors discusses a software as service offering called “Employee Central” that reinvigorates the role Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) play in driving business execution. Nick draws on more than a decade of experience implementing HRIS tools to contrast the traditional role of more transactional HRIS solutions with the more strategic, dynamic focus of Employee Central. He discusses how Employee Central balances support for more administrative tasks like payroll and benefits with more strategic applications that encourage stronger collaboration, insight and utilization within your company’s workforce.

Want to hear the future of HRIS technology? Listen to Nick MacIlvaine – this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Georgia Perkey, Managing Partner for iNPOINT Advisors, explores how companies are changing their view of facilities and operations. Instead of emphasizing facilities as a cost to be controlled, companies are starting to discover the results that can be achieved through leveraging the space as a tool to increase performance through better collaboration, engagement, and communication.

Where you work influences what you achieve. Learn some of the ways to make your environment more impactful – this week on Business Execution Radio.

Build for Success with insights from Georgia’s Book:

• “Cut It Out! Save for Today and Build for Tomorrow”

Listen to Business Execution Radio Episode 79:

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Jahn Ballard, founding director of Performance Management Institute discusses methods that integrate financial and operational data to align operating leaders and teams around the actions that drive business results. Jahn approaches business execution from the background of a person rooted in accounting and finance, emphasizing ways to make accounting data more meaningful and impactful for operations managers and employees.

Learn data driven techniques that link front line actions to bottom line results – this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Glenn Dirks, Director at Teletrips Inc. discusses practices for leveraging the value of telecommuting to increase business performance. Telecommuting is a readily accessible and highly powerful method for impacting what Glenn refers to as a company’s “triple bottom line”: financial returns, environmental benefits, and social contributions. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience in facilities management and workspace design, Glenn explains key steps for setting up effective and productive telecommuting processes.

Find out how to increase the time employees spend on business results while shortening the time they spend stuck in traffic – this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Dean Spitzer, author of “Transforming Performance Measurement” explains how to move performance measurement from a disjointed, backward looking exercise in data collection to a process that gives a company meaningful competitive advantage. He describes what a “transformative measure” is and how it can be used to re-orient an entire company around the things that matter for business execution.

It is well known that what gets measured is what gets managed. So what could be more important to measure than performance? Find out how to apply the concepts of focus, integration, interactivity, and context to improve your company’s performance management methods – this week on Business Execution Radio.