The Six Boxes - User Workshops

Six Boxes^TM Workshops for HR &
Performance Improvement Professionals

Human Resources, Performance Improvement and Training Professionals can use the Six Boxes Model to inform and strengthen virtually everything they do with a comprehensive model of the variables that effect performance. Needs analysis, performance design, program implementation, best practices and competence studies, training support, management and supervisory training – these and many more functions served by human performance specialists benefit greatly from the model. One of the most important benefits is that The Six Boxes Model enables them to engage in conversations with managers and business leaders – their clients – that get them “out of the training box” and cover all the important factors that affect performance.

The Six Boxes Workshop will enable Performance Improvement, HR, and Training professionals to:

Communicate in plain English with managers and individual employees about causes of poor and great performance (and to “get out of the training box” in such discussions).
Gain alignment with managers and teams about how to address performance problems and leverage performance strengths.
Obtain and analyze information for Needs Analyses, Best Practices Studies, Competence Descriptions, New Performance Designs, or Implementation Planning for new programs, strategies, systems or initiatives.
Configure or improve performance systems or interventions taking the whole picture into account, optimizing cost-effectiveness by ensuring that components work together synergistically.
Suggest means of improving performance management practices or environments to address motivational and attitude problems.
Incorporate The Six Boxes into training for Managers, Supervisors, Coaches or Project Managers helping to build this simple yet powerful model into the organization’s “DNA”.

Value of a Jump Start Work Session: After a Six Boxes Workshop for HR or performance improvement teams, a second-day Jump Start Work Session provides an opportunity for the team, or several sub-teams, to focus on developing or improving tools and methods for needs analysis, program design, management development, or other core HR/Training responsibilities. This is a cost-effective way of focusing HR and Training professionals on performance outcomes and enablers rather than on more traditional content-based or process-based approaches to training and human resource management.