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Summer 2008
Foppe named Executive Director of Community Link
Recently, John put his feet where his heart is by taking on the role of Executive Director for Community Link, a non-for-profit organization, headquartered in Breese, Illinois, that helps adults and children with developmental disabilities. John oversees a six million dollar operating budget and manages more than 130 employees who provide a full array of services, including employment, job training, and housing, to more than 400 individuals. He will continue to speak to other companies on a limited and selected basis.
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Is Your Company
Getting It Done or Making It Happen?
In "Get It Done" organizations, people show up and do their jobs. Work is fine, but not fantastic. In "Make It Happen" companies, employees don’t just do their work - they love their work. Employees don’t just meet their goals - they exceed them. Customers are not simply satisfied - they’re elated.
What makes this difference?
The ability to engage employees in the company’s vision and consistently execute strategy determines the difference between fine and fantastic.
However, a 2006 study by The Conference Board found that engaging employees in the vision is the number one management challenge three years running. In other words, most visions fall short of outcomes. Why?
The scapegoat is not poor time management or unproductive behavior. Nor is it one of the various reasons for widespread worker dissatisfaction: longer hours, less free time, poor compensation, under-appreciation, or unpleasant and uninspiring work environments. While each plays into failed visions, they are only symptoms of the deeper issue and cannot provide a definitive solution.
The Watercooler Conspiracy
Call it an accidental conspiracy. Compelling new research shows employees are often subconsciously governed by a code that renders them apathetic to company vision and disempowered to execute their roles. Through the sharing of emotions, opinions and experiences - watercooler conversation - exasperation quickly becomes encoded into an organization’s culture. Subtle patterns of unconscious, unacknowledged, and unspoken inaction derail initiatives. Employees become shackled in their ability to align attitude and activity with company vision. Exasperation becomes the expectation.
Achieving vision-based outcomes in any organization must then begin by cracking the subconscious code of exasperation - the "watercooler conspiracy" governing company culture - and replacing it with a conscious code of execution. With new research, profiles and illustrations from his twenty years of corporate motivation, John Foppe shows how.
John Foppe -- expert on the human condition
Corporate leaders, managers and entrepreneurs find John’s work equally creditable and compelling because he was born without arms. He understands firsthand the difficult gaps between envisioning an outcome and achieving it.
The Bottom Line
The upside of outcome-driven organizations speaks for itself: stock growth three times the rate of competitors, profits two times that of the S&P 500 as a group, and investment earnings 17.69% higher than the S&P overall.
Give us a call…John will help your people move from simply getting it done to truly making it happen!
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