If your organization’s performance management processes are working great, you can save some time and skip this post. But if you are like most organizations, leaders, and individuals you have at least some pain or frustration with this process (and maybe a whole lot, you are still reading.) Good – stay with me. There are […]
Performance Management in Your (the Real) World
On July 26, 2016, Susan Peters, the Vice President of Human Resources at GE announced a shift in how performance management will be done for the 300,000 employees at GE. Her is part of what she announced: “Today we’re announcing our latest update to Performance Development. Bottom line: after running pilots with 30,000 employees and […]
Simplifying Your Performance Development: Re-focus Your Performance Management, Eliminate Stress & Increase Success!
Over the years we have helped a number of organizations with their performance management systems, and helped a number of leaders do a better job of developing their employees using those systems. We recently created a product to help with those issues and Steve Johnston and I are writing book that we think will have […]
Anything but Performance Management (Please!)
You might call it something different; but whatever you call it, you know what it is: Performance Management Performance Reviews Performance Assessments Performance Evaluations Performance Appraisals These are ubiquitous in organizational life; so much so that they are typically greeted with apathy, cynicism or even disdain. In fact, few things in organizational life are more […]
Remarkable TV: Feedback Sandwich
The Feedback Sandwich is a common model for giving feedback to others, and unfortunately an often ineffective one. Check out this video to find out why this approach could be undermining your efforts and learn tips for structuring your feedback so that it is positively received and actually used! Make your feedback honest, meaningful, and […]