What We Believe In

Behind the McKenzie Stretch Performance Management Program

The skilled performance manager/coach is the lynchpin of the high performance workforce; 

The uniqueness of each person and their talents;

Showing people their required destination and letting them work out how to get there;

That talented people are principally motivated by the need to learn, grow and develop; 

That money is a de-motivator if people are not fairly rewarded; but that it is rarely a primary motivator of performance stretch;

Many businesses spend too much time designing and administering bonus, incentive and other reward schemes and too little time on other more important motivators;

Having specific, measurable, achievable and time bound goals and outputs for each person and giving them the skills, resources and management support to achieve them; 

A person’s practical learning ability in unfamiliar situations, as well as their EQ (their emotional maturity, empathy and people skills) are generally more predictive of management success than IQ; 

Each person should know what the overall direction and goals of the business are, and how their role supports overall goal achievement; 

The importance of Coaching and Mentoring in the support of on-the-job learning and goal setting; 

   

Being given difficult and unfamiliar assignments is the best way to grow practical, soft skills; 

Businesses that attract, successfully develop and retain talented people, make more profit; 

Our model is as applicable to small and medium sized businesses as much as larger businesses; 

Ultimately, if you cannot offer a home for Talent in this increasingly talent poor market, some of your competitors will; 

Developing common sense, practical and cost effective solutions for our clients; and 

Up-skilling our clients to do it themselves; not doing it for them.