How’s your week going? Have you had a chance to complete last week’s exercises? In case you haven’t done the 10-minute exercises, you can find them here. How did you go? Did anything surprise [...]

As we are heading to the ‘traditional’ performance review period – how will your organisation handle them this year? Will you still have them, cancel them or postpone them? Is there still a place [...]

According to The Harvard Business Review, a gifted mathematician was hired by a large organisation to come up with a sophisticated formula for measuring the productivity of staff members across a [...]

First step - need to identify which it is so we can understand how to tackle them

Today I’d like to share one of my favourite strategies for developing staff. It’s called setting stretch goals to develop All Stars. We’ve talked about this often, but [...]

Are annual performance reviews dead? Is there still a place in today’s ever-connected world for the annual performance review? Many high profile companies — like Adobe, GE, Accenture, [...]

On the surface, paying for performance and incentivising employees monetarily may seem like a smart business approach. But effectively linking pay to performance is a bit more complicated and [...]

We enter performance review season with the best of intentions. And despite the typical resistance from employees (ranging from mild anxiety to ‘rolling eyes’ indignation)… [...]