All high performance environments share a serious devotion to results. They’re competitive, stressful workplaces where mediocrity is disdained and failure … Read more
Survey: CFOs Love Performance Reviews, But Workers Feel Differently
You can toss this into the debate over whether or not performance reviews are useful (and maybe even add it to the argument over whether HR should report … Read more
Is This The Final Straw for Forced Ranking of Employee Performance?
This one cannot be blamed on HR but on a current August 2012 Vanity Fair article — How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo — that argues that the … Read more
Want to Increase Sales by 5%? Just Improve Your Employee Engagement
Rounding out a weeks’ worth of posts on employee engagement is a brief look at the impact of employee engagement on customer service and – consequently – … Read more
Getting to the Bottom Line Impact of Employee Engagement
Despite all that has been said or written about employee engagement, there’s still a question that’s hard to get a straight answer to: … Read more
Feedback: Why It’s So Important For Keeping Employees on Course
Feedback — how often should we give it? Who should give it? When should it be given? What format to deliver it should be used? All of these are good … Read more
Company Goals: Do Your Employees Have a “Line of Sight” to Them?
There’s a famous story from the early days of the space race. President John F. Kennedy was visiting NASA headquarters for the first time, in … Read more
Weekly Wrap: The Dirty Little Secret of Performance Improvement Plans
There are three words that no employee (and most managers) ever want to hear, words that will frighten the bejesus out of anyone who encounters them. … Read more
“B” Players? Here’s Why Steve Jobs Was Completely Wrong About Them
During the last few months, one of the top books on the bestseller lists has been the Steve Jobs autobiography. It’s a fascinating read and doesn’t hold … Read more
Survey: The 8 Qualities Employers Most Want in Their Employees
A lot of surveys come across my desk, and the best of them are the ones that tell you something new or breaks new ground on a particularly interesting … Read more