The Principles of An Excellence Agenda

Earlier this week I was working with a client on their Excellence Agenda.  As we talked about the concepts and clarified what it was and how it worked, the motivation and excitement took off.  Coming out of the meeting I realized I needed to find a better way to tell the Excellence Agenda story.  Yesterday, while walking the dogs (walking has a great impact on creativity) I had an "aha" moment and was able to simplify An Excellence Agenda to a series of basic principles.  So here they are:

1. Excellence isn't everything, it's the only thing.
2. Job 1 of every executive and manager is "to create environments in which excellence can happen"
3. Excellence is a journey, not a destination
4. Excellence = meeting requirements
5. Excellence does not equal perfect: Excellence is an outcome, Perfect is a target (generally unachievable)
6. There is a proven process for building an Excellence Agenda, that has definable steps and that engages the participants to build buy-in and execution commitment. 

I am looking forward to elaborating on these topics over the next week or so...

In the meantime check out the link about my Granddaughter: lifewithlol