Category: Performance Management and Appraisals
It’s one of the toughest responsibilities managers and supervisors are asked to complete — performance reviews / appraisals. Here’s help in detail about how to get it done quickly, efficiently, but above all USEFUL.
Here’s How To Make Employee Evaluations Valuable
Small shifts in mindset about managing performance and doing appraisals is all it takes. Despite exhortations to abolish performance appraisals by experts, bloggers, and luminaries such as Edward Deming, and Coens & Jenkins, they are alive, if not well. They…
Managers — Are You Getting The Information You Need To Do A Good Job?!
OR…Managers — Why Won’t Your Employees Talk To You? It’s a very odd question…but an important one in government. One of the worst feelings a government manager, executive or supervisor can experience is that dreadful sinking feeling that occurs when…
How Effective Reviews Differ From Ineffective Ones
Yes, there is such a thing as an effective performance review. Here’s how to get there. Unclear vs. Clear Definition There are currently a lot of definitions and different terms used to describe meetings where performance is discussed. For example,…
Common Managerial Mistakes Series: Performance Appraisal Goofs
If it wasn’t for the managers, communication about employee performance could work very well. Here are common errors Performance appraisals are probably the most misused, and goofed-up management tool in existence. Starting from misunderstanding the whole point of appraisals, right…
Common Managerial Mistakes: Confusing Evaluation Forms With Performance Review Process
In most companies, managers are expected to complete forms or otherwise document what occurs during performance review meetings. We’ll explain why this expectation exists. But before we get to that, let’s discuss some issues about performance reviews and forms. Confusion…
Stamping Out Blame: What Managers And Leaders Can DO!
Conflict Management And Resolution Series: #2 Stamping Out Blame: What Can Leaders And Managers DO? (Part 2 of 2) Note: In Part 1, we talked about how important it is to move away from a blaming culture, which is prevalent…
10 Ways To Modernize Performance Reviews & Performance Management
Despite all the technological innovations, and shifts in THINKING about employee performance, how to measure it, and how to evaluate it, performance management and appraisal still has both feet firmly planted in a manufacturing and production mindset. The problem is…
Dealing With The Human Road Runner Employee
In a previous article we discussed the plight of Mary Duncan, Director of the Income Security Branch, who had to contend with John, the human speed bump. John’s tended to shoot holes in new ideas, procrastinate, and generally hold to…
Leadership – How Planning Transforms Into Doing
Summary:Â If you think of an organization as a ship, the “leader” is responsible for planning out the destination of the trip. However, no matter how good a leader is in creating strategy and planning, if the strategies and plans don’t…
Is there a core set of leadership skills that are essential or mandatory for leadership success?
Do Leaders Have To Have A Specific Core Set Of Skills To Be Successful? It’s a Yes, and a No If you read books about leadership, or listen to leadership experts, you may come away with the idea that there…
Leadership Credibility – Why is it SO Important
Importance Of Credibility For Leadership Success First, if there is one defining characteristic of leaders who are effective over long periods of time, it’s that they behave in ways that cause people to see them as credible. That means that…
