Building and Maintaining a High Performance Environment

Posted on August 16, 2013

September 20, 2013.   Palo Alto, CA.   CICC.  High tech startups are exciting—and full of pressure.  Pressure can be both bad and good.  Along with all the exciting moments are the big disappointments, when setbacks arrived.  Keeping the team highly motivated through all the rounds of funding (and despite the opinions of others) is not simple.

A big contributor to the problem is that many early and mid-stage tech company CEOs do not take a strategic and disciplined approach to shaping the workplace environment—they just hire smart and connected people and hope it all works. The workplace environment is the sum total of what it feels like to work at the firm. Most CEOs feel responsible for achieving the company’s mission by using their management team and resources.  They need their team to perform. But creating a highly productive working environment beyond the top team requires far more: a CEO and top team with a long-term commitment to create such an environment, and then a step-by-step plan to put it in place.

What you will learn:

• Learn the five common causes of low performance environments.
• Learn how to apply performance pressure in a productive fashion.
• Understand the power for visibility to drive results.
• Learn when to put the risk of failure front and center.
• Discover why your employees should not feel satisfied with their performance—ever.

Friday, September 20, 2013.    8:00 AM – 12:00 noon.     Breakfast will be provided.
Event Location:  Wells Fargo   400 Hamilton Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94301
Please enter door by parking lot Behind Hamilton.

RSVP Details: This event is only open to CEOs, Founders and Top Team Executives. Space is limited.
Attendance by advance registration only.

Agenda:
8:00 a.m.    Breakfast & Registration
8:30 a.m.    Discussions begins
11:30 a.m.  Wrap Up & Networking

This is the third of a four part series of Roundtable events and is a service to the members and prospective members of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC).  Stepping up your game as a growth company top executive is a prerequisite to your success and your company’s success. Investors and acquirers look first to the strength of the top team.  This series focuses in on the unique skills required to run high growth and mid-sized companies – skills that are often very different than those required for success with big companies. This series of four workshops builds the skills of high growth and mid-market CEOs and their top teams.