Creating a Results-Driven Culture Course

This course offers an in-depth examination of organizational mission, vision, and goals, along with core customer relationship management principles, problem-solving and decision-making strategies, and the difference between efficiency and effectiveness at work. Participants build the skills needed to assess organizational priorities, strengthen customer relationships, make sound decisions, and improve work processes.

What You Will Learn

• Evaluate an organization’s mission, vision, and goals
• Apply essential principles of customer relationship management
• Assess approaches to problem-solving and decision-making
• Differentiate between efficiency and overall work effectiveness

Course Outline

Module 1: Creating Results Through the Mission, Vision, and Goals

• Differentiate mission, vision, and goals and how each guides organizational direction.
• Examine the impact of clear purpose statements on employee motivation and engagement.
• Analyze real agency examples to connect goals with daily decisions and strategic plans.
• Practice strategies to communicate mission, vision, and goals to internal and external stakeholders.

Module 2: Creating Results Through Customer Relationship Management

• Define internal vs. external customers and map key stakeholders you serve.
• Identify customer behavior types (new, impulse, angry, insistent, loyal) and match responses to needs.
• Build customer profiles to personalize service and improve consistency across channels.
• Apply tactics that strengthen trust, responsiveness, and service quality across the organization.

Module 3: Creating Results Through Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Distinguish problem solving from decision making and when to use each.
• Use root-cause tools (5 Whys, Fishbone, Problem Tree) to analyze complex issues.
• Generate solutions with SCAMPER, mind mapping, and reverse thinking.
• Select options with decision tools (Decision Matrix, Pugh Matrix, Decision Tree) and plan implementation.

Module 4: Creating Results Through Efficiency and Effectiveness

• Contrast efficiency (doing things right) and effectiveness (doing the right things).
• Prioritize work with Covey’s Priority Matrix, Ivy Lee, ABCDE, and the 80/20 rule.
• Improve personal productivity (Pomodoro, time tracking, automation, focused workflows).
• Adopt team practices that reduce waste: clearer agendas, fewer meetings, and better tool use.

This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.