Andrew Freedman on Building a High-Performance Culture

A #1 Amazon Best-Seller, Thrive provides leaders with a clear blueprint for building a high-performance culture. Drawing on extensive experience in change management, organizational development, and performance consulting, Andrew Freedman and Paul Elliott share their systematic approach, known as the Exemplary Performance System (EPS), in a way that enables leaders to take immediate action to shift workforce engagement and performance.

Thrive teaches leaders how to create clarity and alignment around what high performance looks like and how to replicate it at scale, identify and eliminate barriers to performance excellence, effectively align individual and team priorities with those of the company, and build organizational systems and processes that accelerate business and financial results.

Purchasing Thrive also gives readers access to more than twenty accelerators—downloadable tools, templates, and artifacts to help leaders implement the processes and practices that Andrew and Paul share throughout the book.

Andrew Freedman is a lifelong advocate for maximizing human potential and creating positive change, both personally and professionally. For more than twenty-five years, he’s been a driving force in designing strategies that provide leaders with a foundation to translate individual, team, and organizational talent into tangible business growth.

As Managing Partner of SHIFT Consulting, he’s helped countless companies across diverse industries flourish through vibrant company cultures and a high-performance mindset. Additionally, through his work as an affiliate faculty member of the University of Baltimore, Andrew’s continued goal is to use his insatiable passion for human performance to inspire new generations of business leaders with the art and science of creating and executing successful, people-focused business strategies.

Topics in this episode include:

00:48 - About Andrew and Paul

07:25 - Defining success

17:18 - What to do when previous high-performers are not performing well

25:13 - Identifying whether somebody will do well in their jobs

28:55 - Motivating your team

38:26 - Using a balance score card to amplify results

Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Thrive-Leaders-Building-High-Performance-Culture/dp/154451607X/ref=asc_df_154451607X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=475795130774&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16484615843778310309&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007481&hvtargid=pla-1164642357513&psc=1

About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and Entrepreneur. He runs a 10-person financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.