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  • Why current performance systems are failing.

    Why current performance systems are failing.

    Most organisations today are investing in initiatives to improve their performance including the likes of strategic planning exercises, leadership programmes, culture initiatives, and performance management systems.

  • What changes when performance is systemised?

    What changes when performance is systemised?

    Previously, I outlined the scale of the Performance Execution Gap and why it persists. The critical question for executives, however, is this: "What is the advantage of treating performance as a system rather than an outcome of separate initiatives?

  • Addressing the Performance Execution Gap

    Addressing the Performance Execution Gap

    As everyone knows, the rise of AI is changing businesses faster than any time in history. Business models are being disrupted, and established operators forced to rethink value and how to deliver it.

  • Vantaset

    What makes a change programme truly transformative?

    As performance specialists, its not uncommon for us to hear people talk about their dismay at their organisation's latest ‘transformation programme', only to be told it's the adoption (or now the removal) of Agile working, an IT upgrade, or a change in...

  • Vantaset

    From productivity to performance

    On the one hand, productivity measures give us valuable insight as they allow us to benchmark our performance against the rest of the developed world.

  • Radio NZ news article on Vantaset™

    Radio NZ news article on Vantaset™

    What is claimed as a first-of-its-kind workplace performance service from New Zealand is gaining global attention from law enforcement and defence agencies. Vantaset was founded by New Zealand performance strategist and former sports coach Craig Steel.

  • Vantaset

    Transforming New Zealand’s productivity

    Historically, we have tended to consider an organisations performance to be akin to its strategic execution, as opposed to its capability or potential; however, because of the gaps in existing systems, leaders ability to deliver plans has been far from...

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