Sunday, February 28, 2010

Lecture Summary: Chapter 7

Today we had guest speaker, Ryan Brown, Sr. Manager, Sales & Service. He spoke about his career and commitment to organizational change at Tahitian Noni. The three most valuable concepts I received in class today were:

  1. Quote: "Teaching skills only increases performance incrementally. Cultivating passion towards vision will increase their performance drastically."
  2. Increase Sales + Decreased Cost = Value (training program success)
  3. Address root cause instead of consequences.
  • For example: The customer service Department was performing poorly. Initially, it was thought that the customer service department needed training when; in fact, it was the computer software the department was using that was inefficient. The computer software was the root cause. The customer service performance was a consequence of the root cause.

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