This document provides an outline for a lecture on organizational performance. It begins with definitions of organizational performance and performance excellence. It describes the healthcare criteria for performance excellence framework, which includes 6 categories: leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, measurement/analysis/knowledge management, workforce focus, and operations focus. It outlines 6 steps to improve organizational performance in healthcare organizations, including integrating performance improvement into strategic objectives and using analytics to identify opportunities. Principles for process improvement include managing processes, using the right data, and engaging clinicians. Strategies to improve performance include becoming a learning organization and focusing on knowledge creation, transfer of training, and relationship between learning and training. The role of managers is to communicate goals and expectations to drive performance.