Confusion can be understandable when one first discovers Yields™. This is actually a “suite” comprised of various software applications plus a variety of empowering instruction and reference materials. Yields is substantively different from anything available previously and is intended for applications in frontline and departmental management, leadership, recruitment, organizational design, talent-related services or workforce consultation.
Yields is the basic toolset for personal understanding, practical application and practice of Work Role Yields Management™ (WRYM™). Yields outfits new WRYM practitioners with the means for significantly better thinking, understanding, diagnostics and design in all aspects of work roles and worker relations; thus it reliably leads to more effective responses to workforce and recruiting opportunities …or prevailing challenges. This comprehensive suite has been carefully developed and integrated over the last decade to enable licensed users with robust solutions for achieving immediate improvements and remedies in performance management, workforce relations, and work role initiatives including worker performance, relations and recruitment objectives.
Here are examples of what you will find within Yields:
a. Work Role Yields Management™ Manual… this potent 600+ page guide and reference provides universally-applicable instruction of the more complete and accurate organizing principles, processes and methods for creating and sustaining performance-based relations with any census of talent from the 500,000 worker global organization to the 5-person shop. This manual brings an extensive new body of knowledge that has been sorely missing from the majority of workplaces, management teams and recruiting activities today. This leather-bound desk tome is the cornerstone reference for the strategically and tactically rewarding practice of Work Role Yields Management. We believe this body of knowledge contains basic “work role and relations literacy” that is essential for anyone who is supervising, recruiting, designing or leading workforces today. The volume offers the WRYM practitioner a new level of professional competence regarding root causation, application, common language and standardized methods for appreciating and dependably leveraging the underlying forces within all workplace relationships. This manual consists of two separate volumes:
• Career Fulcrum… providing the rudimentary principles, framing and a standardized language of performance-based work relations for all constituents. These underlying tenets are known in WRYM as Relationship Performance™. (Note: in the practice of WRYM, Career Fulcrum is also available for an organization’s workers and candidates for assuring that all in the workforce are enjoying the benefits and rewards of commonly shared principles and language.)
• Work Role Yields Management Fundamentals… instructing the organizational implementation and execution of WRYM practice for any work role over the full lifespan of worker relationships, inclusive of processes of continuous improvement. This volume addresses the fundamental premises and methodologies of a WRYM practice and deployment such as:
- the vital differentiation of work role yield(s) versus work role function(s)
- the operation of work roles and integral worker relations by design, based upon reciprocal performance, with distributed guidance to well-informed workplace constituents
- optimization of the discrete design of each work role by effective diagnostics followed by disciplined, metrics-based processes of continuous improvement
- integration of recruitment, performance and stewardship practices
- purposeful correlation of the optimal work role experience with talent performance and attraction
b. rpS&C™ (relationship performance Slates & Composers™) … this unique software application provides the structure, means and methodology to more easily and effectively respond to the daunting complexities of modern work roles, workers and worker relations. Here are the tools required for an in-depth analysis of the many organizational and personal dimensions of every work role (…“Slates”). Equally, you will find the tools and functions for decision-making, work role blueprinting, developing metrics and offering work role guidance to all the work role’s constituents, including workers and candidates (…“Composers”).
You could consider rpS&C for work roles as analogous to CAD/CAM software for engineering and architecture applications. This powerful, robust and easy-to-use software application provides the right utilities and wide scope of functionality to meet your most challenging WRYM demands. It is the preferred platform for thought framing, extensive diagnostics and inquiry, optimal design, metrics definition, as well as instructive content and communications methods and processes. The rpS&C application is ideal for information archiving, knowledge management and continuous improvement across the years for every work role in your organization. Using rpS&C is a strategic edge for gaining maximum work role productivity. It can provide you with step-function leaps in competitiveness for attracting, choosing and keeping the best talent. It is also likely that you will come to appreciate that this software is “mission critical” as a dependable resource to minimize the risks, resources and expenses that are inherent to a workforce census.
All mainstream types and forms of collected digital data and information can be placed into rpS&C including audio, image and video files. We selected FileMaker Pro to be the core database engine for rpS&C because of its unique power, functionality, flexibility, acceptance in sophisticated corporate environments worldwide and its operation on both Windows and Mac platforms. Doing so allows its base structure and content to be easily adapted, integrated or expanded to your organization’s most demanding needs. A full and latest version of FileMaker Pro single-user software is included ($299.00 MSRP stand alone value). Enterprise and local server applications are optionally available. For more information on FileMaker Pro: http://www.filemaker.com/
c. Yields Library™… a uniquely designed general and personal WRYM information, knowledge, educational and community resource that provides:
• Integrated access to TalentSphere Academy’s expanding online courses and learning resources, including “First Aids™’ for expedient assistance for the manager, leader, supervisor or recruiter with a pressing situational need. Comprehensive user support also resides here. Also included within TalentSphere Academy are volumes of information that expand beyond your desk reference manual including:
-Talent Steward Primer for the frontline supervisors’ or managers’ development, assistance and situational benefit.
-Hiring Wisdom for optimizing talent attraction, hiring processes, recruitment activities and selection programs.
• WRYM community forums for connecting and interfacing with other WRYM practitioners.
• Personal WRYM Journal for documenting, notating, archiving, accessing and mining all that you are discovering, thinking, and learning related to your own practice of WRYM. This is where you can place all your “Eurekas™” that you learn and discover throughout your professional practice of WRYM.
Yields Library also utilizes at its core the FileMaker Pro information engine for seamless integration of access to online knowledge and educational resources combined with local, secure control of your personal data, information and growing knowledge about the many dynamic facets of work roles and their management for optimal yields.
d. ThoughtOffice™/ThoughtAids™ …We’ve included the full and latest version of ThoughtOffice software. That’s because creative thought is essential to work role improvements and remedies. We’ve found ThoughtOffice to be a formidable tool for precipitating more creative work role thought and investigation. ThoughtOffice helps facilitate yields-generating role design along with more effective worker, manager and candidate communications and ultimately, optimal deployment and metrics of your work roles. To its power we’ve added our own unique ThoughtAids modules specifically constructed to generate more expansive and divergent thinking in various areas of your WRYM practice. ThoughtOffice ($149 MSRP stand alone value) operates upon Windows and Mac platforms. With its roots being in Martin Fisher’s original Idea Fisher of the 80’s, this unique software has vastly evolved over the last two decades to be able to quickly provoke your mind into more expansive thinking for today’s and tomorrow’s greatest opportunities and most vexing challenges. Think of this tool as a mental palette with unlimited paints and canvasses to ensure you are achieving and realizing your best thinking potential. For more information on ThoughtOffice: http://www.thoughtoffice.com/
e. SilverBullets™ … this convenient carry-about tool for pocket/purse is designed to bring reminders of the basic WRYM frameworks to wherever your work role and talent circumstances and situations are, whether in the board room, hospital ward, manufacturing or sales floor, office, in an interview or a meeting with your recruitment advertising and marketing team to design an ad. This personal WRYM assistant will stand ready to help you appraise the moment, find the right responses, make better decisions and gain the best outcomes related to work roles and workers. (Attractive, durable, laminated spiral-bound and full-color 4” x 9” foldables).
f. The WRYM Map… this handy foldout WRYM guide provides a quick representation for every work role’s landscape. A useful reference source for the desk or wall.
