The Case For A Results Only Work Environment

The case for a Results Only Work Environment This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories One of the major causes of low employee engagement and productivity in corporations: we evaluate work based on time and presence, not results. So says Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson in their new book “Why Work Sucks and how to fix it.” Evaluating work performance based on time spent in the office is rampant â€" and wrong. Instead, companies should adapt a “Results Only Work Environment” or ROWE. In this environment, only your results count, not the time spent in your office. The workplace They suggest that corporations currently evaluate people on this simple formula: Time + Physical Presence = Results If you ran your own business, you know that just sitting there for 8-10 hours a day straight being present will not produce results. Yet, that formula drives decision-making about performance in many companies. Need some proof? Eve Tahmincioglu’s story of “How to make your job layoff-resistant” quotes these tips on how to keep your gig from Stephen Viscusi, author of the forthcoming book, “Bulletproof Your Job: How to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out on Top at Work:” Makes you want to throw up, doesn’t it? You would have to think your manager was an idiot to not see through that, yet this is advice for making your job layoff-resistant. I wouldn’t recommend the approach. A Better Solution: Results Only Work Environment In a Results Only Work Environment, you and your manager decide the results to carry out. Since it is only the results that count, it means your time is now precious. Go to a meeting that doesn’t help you meet your goals? Not going to happen. Taking on extra work that impacts your results? Needs negotiation. Need to attend your daughter’s practice session at school at 2 PM on a Monday? Not a problem. Want to stay with friends in another state for two weeks? That will be fine. How you spend your time and where the work gets done is all about work results, not a schedule for you to be in the office. Time + Physical Presence = Results is pervasive Cali and Jody spend time in this book going through the culture of time corporations have built â€" and turn them on their head. They started at Best Buy, where I first read of their results in December, 2006, in an article called “Smashing the Clock.” Now there is the book. I asked to interview Cali and Jody about this revolutionary approach to work and they graciously accepted. This week, we’ll take a look at the Results Only Work Environment. For Cubicle Warriors, it’s a great way to get engagement back into your work. After all, work shouldn’t be a place you go to, it should be something you do. […] August 31, 2009 A fascinating TED Talk in London from Daniel Pink, author of upcoming book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, about what motivates people in their work. The 18-minute video is smart, intelligent, scientific and entertaining. The premise: what science knows about motivation business is not implementing. And here’s a hint on something that works great: Results Only Work Environment. […] Reply […] book, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It, was published by Portfolio, a Penguin Imprint, in June 2008. Social […] Reply […] you work in a flexible work environment (or, better, a Results Only Work Environment â€" ROWE), both management and the employee need to step up their game to get the goals right. […] Reply […] Cubicle Warriors â€" want to be measured and compared on their results. That’s why a Results Only Work Environment is so freeing and productive. If you are not managing your SMART goals with your manager in […] Reply […] is a classic Results Only Work Environment. But will companies see the change with global competition and quarterly earnings interrupting […] Reply […] of which avoids the real deal: deliver results. I don’t know why career pundits think beating around the bush with “visibility” […] Reply […] to focus on the time issue alone here, but management hasn’t figured this out, much less results only management. The reality, with vacations and some other utilization issues, is probably not exactly 40-hours, […] Reply […] a big difference in this answer. Results-only managers focus on the work and not how you spend your time. 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You can learn about this in The Case for a Results Only Work Environment. […] Reply […] There is a revolutionary approach to work out there: a Results Only Work Environment. It’s changing the time and presence approach for results to, well, results. You can learn about this in The Case for a Results Only Work Environment. […] Reply […] There is a revolutionary approach to work out there: a Results Only Work Environment. It’s changing the time and presence approach for results to, well, results. You can learn about this in The Case for a Results Only Workplace. […] Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . 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