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In this resource you get the step-by-step skills and support you need to prepare yourself to engage in respectful and reasonable service partnering agreements. You learn to assess the current level of collaboration in your organization; to hold an effective launch meeting; and to identify your essential contribution to your organizational network.
Creating Internal Service Agreements: Preparation: Steps 4-8 of an 8-step process, Book 2
Sharon Mulgrew, M.P.H.
Creating Internal Service Agreements - Book 2 builds on the steps and process tools in Book 1 to help you create useful and productive Internal Service Agreements with your internal service partners (customers and suppliers)
In Step 4, you will develop preliminary documentation that provides you, your employees, and your service partners with a clear picture of your department's role and operating parameters.
In Step 5, you discover what your internal customer needs from you. This gives you the accurate information you need to draft your internal service agreement.
Step 6 gives you an "all cards on the table" strategy that helps you to negotiate a true partnering relationship.
Step 7 shows you how to create and negotiate your formal internal service agreements including how to measure effectiveness, deliver unexpected services, resolve conflicts, and identify future changes.
In Step 8, you learn how to set up an effective review system for your Internal Service Agreement to keep it alive and effective.
By putting Creating Internal Service Agreements - Book 1 and 2 into action, you and your internal partners (customers and suppliers) will be more productive contributors to the overall effectiveness of your organization.
By working through this book you will:
Identify five specific kinds of common failure.
Learn specific skills to overcome or avoid these failures.
Be introduced to key concepts that will help you better understand the nature of some failures.
Learn how to manage situations in which you encounter a paradox.
Assess your thinking patterns and consider ways to refine them.
Consider how you typically perceive and interpret situations.
Learn specific skill to listen actively.
In this book you will learn how to:
Focus on positive events in the workplace.
Identify the purpose and meaning of their jobs.
Be proactive in arranging events and conditions that help them to get engaged and stay that way.
Tell the difference between controlling events and influencing them.
Take ownership of their feelings of disengagement and allow engaged feelings to dominate.