Posts Tagged With: performance management
It’s the kudos and creature comforts that keep us coming back to work
The chairs were killing us. Okay, not really killing us, but they were un-comfortable with a capital U, and sitting in them for any length of time was beginning to wear on our Generation X bodies, even those of us in pretty good shape. So it was time to do something about that. We’re a &hellip Continue reading
Don’t be an endangered species – succession plan
You’d think we were hunting endangered species. But if the endangered species are A-players and top executives at competing firms, then we’ve got a lot of other problems going on. I’m talking about poaching top talent from each other, which to me isn’t really the right choice of words, because that would imply it was &hellip Continue reading
Maybe HR should be called Hippocampus Resources
The latest neuroscience research continues to transform what we know about human behavior. Queue one of my favorite online shows — Radiolab — and one of the episodes titled Lost & Found. The first segment is about a woman with a newly discovered cognitive disorder called Developmental Topographical Disorientation, affecting the hippocampus of the brain and &hellip Continue reading
HR, innovation and the waiting culture
It’s like Waiting for Godot. It was one of my favorite reads in college – an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Of course, Godot never arrives, and each time they make the decision to leave, they don’t. &hellip Continue reading
It’s what happens after the test that’s important
You’re just so strapped for time. Especially if you’re the sole HR director or even if you have a small team to assist you. You’ve got payroll to process, performance reviews to conduct, remind management that they’ve got performance reviews to conduct, maybe dealing with a toxic employee or two, open enrollment – the list &hellip Continue reading
Performance reviews suck. Really, they do.
Let’s be clear: annual performance reviews can be invaluable in maintaining alignment between employee performance and management’s goals and expectations. However, as a growing number of experts agree, annual reviews actually do very little to improve performance, enhance skill sets or develop leadership qualities. In fact, they suck. Really, they do. Even so, I’m sure &hellip Continue reading
Calculating the cost of managing the employee record
EFFICIENCY and TIME. Don’t you wish you were better at the former and had more of the latter? If you’re in human resources, you most likely do. With so much focus on compliance and payroll/benefit processing, who has time to be a better business partner and manage the talent bottom line by automating your employee &hellip Continue reading
