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Aggregated Behaviors Are Performance - Part 1

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Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This guidance recommends focusing on behaviors because behaviors are measurable and aggregated behaviors ARE performance.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to talk about behaviors and aggregated behaviors

0:27.3

being performance and I am really looking forward to this show because when you came and consulted for me,

0:34.2

shoot how long ago is it now, I don't know, 20 years almost,

0:38.3

that the idea of behaviors and giving feedback to folks based on behaviors versus what I thought they were thinking or what their intent was

0:48.0

Just it was just one of those moments in your

0:53.4

life life, I get it. I get it.

0:55.0

Yeah, people will argue with you, right?

0:57.0

If you, I mean, all of us, we're terrible at it, but we all, it's one of those things.

1:01.5

We think we're really, really good at guessing what people's

1:05.0

intent is. And because of that, what we do is we give feedback based on why we think people

1:11.7

did something.

1:12.6

And it gives so many people the opportunity to say,

1:15.1

you're wrong, that's not what I was thinking.

1:17.4

And it doesn't matter anyway.

1:20.0

If somebody intends to mess up,

1:22.3

but produces an outstanding result, what are you going to do?

1:25.9

Punish them?

1:26.9

What if somebody intends to do well, but they produce a terrible result?

1:31.2

Are you going to reward them? The marketplace certainly doesn't.

1:35.2

If your company intends to do well and produces a terrible product, and as you said before, you

1:40.0

can't have internal systems that are wildly divergent from the external environment

1:45.6

that your organization lives in.

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