Performance June 17, 2004

Performance = per-form-ance; ‘per-form’ = as per a form, or method, or system… or the form that the output takes, and ‘–ance’ = enhance. So performance = when you enhance your output using articulated methods.

This understanding of performance is interesting in that it includes both of the two jobs we all need to focus on when we think of our performance towards meeting objectives or goals. The two jobs we all have are:

1. The job that is outlined by our real job description (RJD).
2. Doing the first job better.

It is the second job that helps us to achieve more, to grow, to expand our competencies.

When you enhance your activities which have been happening as per form, it becomes performance.

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Performance has to be such that we rubber band forward into a role instead of having to prove and demonstrate commitment and – before we are given a certain responsibility, and this stretching forward happens in the case of excellent performers who also learn.

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People = (Attitudes + Skills + Knowledge = ASK)… at any point in time.

How effectively we use these together for ourselves, to be better than other people in achieving what we want, is what defines our success.

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