People Centred Performance Enhancement: Performance Enhancement Programme
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Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite in the USA: Awarded 5 Stars Our Highest Accolade. The author designed the programs he discusses… and argues that the answer to sluggish performance and failing corporate health lies within the people who make up the workforce. Participation is necessary, and from every tier in the employment hierarchy. Getting your workforce motivated and feeling ownership and pride in their performance will translate into success. Alan Mackenzie’s non-fiction business work is a dynamic and intriguing book which details how the author has successfully turned around failing or under-performing public and private entities. In the process, he shares his philosophy for getting employees fired up and motivated. Applying the PeP principles seems to guarantee a win-win situation, both for the company or public entity and the people who make up its labor force.
It’s a refreshing change from the ‘take it or leave it’ corporate mentality where employees are made to feel that they’re not at all important and can easily be replaced. Giving responsibility, setting up mentors and empowering workers can make a job into a dream job and a so-so company into a dynamo.
As someone who was in a business whose plan to downsize and depersonalize as a means of saving money resulted in a demoralized, traumatized and unmotivated workforce, I was thrilled by the author’s people-oriented approach. I wish I had had this book when I was in management. This eBook is most highly recommended.
When the author was in the process of putting this program together I was extremely fortunate to be part of his initial program. I have been through the course, I have read the book and I now live the dream……
I run a rather large business and have 4 factories and two independent warehouses under my control. When I took over the last factory it was no different from the others in terms of size, products and services. Comparing the new factory to those that I have been running for some time allowed me to see the difference and the progress that has been made under the “People Centered Performance Enhancement” (PCPE), program…
I started the PCPE program about 10 years ago, applying the simple principals of getting the people working as a team. I had to get them to the point that they could understand the need for bold changes that required them, at all levels, to self direct themselves. This was followed by an intensive training program that built both the spirit within the team as well as the confidence to allow subordinates to make decisions. They had to know their worth! It then became a “self-fulfilling prophesy”. Today we do not “manage” our people, we lead them.
This book is not a novel, it is step by step guide taking your through the requirements, the reasons, the why and how for change. It allows the reader to understand what the stepping stones are to reach for the elusive “holy grail” of running a business in the 21st century.
In this day and age, there is only one way to succeed; understand where you need to go, rally your troops, invest in your people through training and development……… then lead them.
Having approached this book with a heavy burden of scepticism, I was delighted to find it hugely useful, practical and approachable. Mackenzie has done an impressive job of conveying his hard-won experience in the practice of making organizations work better, and I’ve already begun the task of implementing his ideas and vision. If ‘” after 5 minutes with this book ‘” you can honestly say you haven’t learned something valuable, you ought to retire and go grow some roses, because I’d say you’re finished as a manager. So if you’re getting ready to hire assassins to take out your team ‘” stop a minute and read what Mackenzie has to say….
In a people centred organisation leaders inspire and co-ordinate and the people manage themselves. Interfacing visioning, strategic, budgeting and financial reporting frameworks sets the tone for a book that is easily understood, easily implemented and which has produced incredible results time and again. Certainly it is a must read. That there is another like it is unlikely.
This eBook was written for some 2,000 people who have implemented a PeP and who have achieved turnarounds, yes turnarounds, that international firms in some cases turned down as they felt that it could not be done. At present implementations include an international manufacturing company, an international consultancy and what about your company?
There are more features! Buy the book and you will be invited to join, at no charge, the PcPe Club. It’s a blog where you can share ideas, post questions, download bonus chapters and spreadsheet templates etc. There are currently two bonus chapters that will be rewritten from time to time. You’ll get the link to download these in the book. The first covers private sector deliberations and matters raised from the ideas submitted on the blog. The second covers the public sector and in the local context, it’s woes and how Chapter 8, a massive national public sector turnaround case study can be rolled out to enhance service delivery turnarounds. The PeP is. inter alia, a mindset and it’s scalable from small businesses to international enterprises. The Author assisted with the writing of the original exposure draft to the current international budget standard and his approach to budget formulation, execution and reporting has been called revolutionary. His Base 80 approach, that is outlined in the eBook, has been adopted with success in the private sector and as well as in the public sector at a… Read more…
