106 – Creating High Performance Workplaces with Bob Dusin & Sue Bingham

Bob Dusin & Sue Bingham. Sue is the founder of the HPWP Group- helping organizations create high performance work environments through building trust. After years in aerospace, an industry notorious for controlling leadership styles, she recognized that her companies’ HR practices had evolved in response to the misbehavior of a few bad employees resulting in lowered morale for the “good employees”

Bob is a partner at HPWP and spent the early part of his career in civil engineering and construction. He, along with Sue, are the co-authors of Creating the High Performance Workplace: It’s not complicated to develop a culture of commitment.

Top Takeaways: Creating High Performance Workplaces with Bob Dusin & Sue Bingham

Relentless forward movement
Too many HR policies are about catching just 1 bad apple
Are we encouraging our people not to think anymore?
It’s not about treating people the some, it’s about treating them fairly.
Give people what they need to be successful
It’s impossible to treat unequal things equal
Leadership problem today is a lack of trust and positive assumptions about people
Don’t promote, develop first
A big part of the role of a leader is developing people
Hire for attributes, train for skills
Leaders have a choice to continue in a traditional way or create a change
High performance work places are not complicated, but require a decision to be intentional
5% principles- someone who wants to do as little as possible and get away with as much as possible
Remove 5%ers from your organization as fast as you can
Efficient versus adaptable