Tag: Performance Management
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Replacing poor performers doesn’t always work
I was sitting in a session during the Human Resources Management Conference about employee engagement recently, and someone brought up an amazing quote. As a little background, business leader Jack Welch advocated firing the bottom 10% of poor performers in order to maintain a high performance organization. You can replace the bottom 10-20% of poor performers,…
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Leadership-Asking Tough Questions
I think one responsibility leaders have is asking tough questions. Getting your people to think about what their roles are and how they can best fill them is a challenge all managers face. Recently my own manager asked a series of difficult questions in a department meeting. In responding to the questions, I felt like…