Tag: Performance
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How to Radically Change Your Performance Management Practice [Podcast]
In today’s episode of We’re Only Human, I talk with Autumn Spehar, HR Director at Stout Advisory, about how her company made a radical change in its approach to performance management. We also talk about how it’s working out one year later and the key lessons learned. Check out the show below: Show Notes Performance management…
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Lessons on Creating Powerful Moments of Performance
I’m reading a new book, and it’s pretty amazing. The Power of Moments tells stories and gives examples of how to create amazing moments of value for employees, students, families, etc. Two of the principles from the book can be leveraged for employee reviews and I want to focus on them today. Assurance + Expectations…
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Performance Management, Culture, and Business Results [New Research]
This summer at Lighthouse we’ve been working our way through a number of research studies, but to be honest one of the ones I’ve been incredibly pumped about is focused on performance management. It’s probably because I get a sense of the discontent around this practice regardless of where I go and who I speak…
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7 Ways to Get Managers to Provide More Feeback
The other day I happened across a blog that posed a very interesting question: Feedback would happen all the time if..? So, what would you say? I can’t reign it in to just one idea, so here are seven things I think would lead to more feedback in the workplace.
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The Real Reason People Hate HR
First, read this from the Ask a Manager blog: HR won’t let us hold people accountable for performance I just read your column about accountability and got aggravated because one of my long-standing frustrations as a manager at the large, government affiliated nonprofit where I work has been a lack of commitment to accountability. In my department,…
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The Crowdsourced Performance Review
Check out the short video below to learn more about The Crowdsourced Performance Review (here on Amazon). I’m looking forward to digging in and sharing more about the topics in the book! Forty-five percent of human resources (HR) leaders don’t think annual performance reviews are an accurate appraisal for employees’ work. And 42 percent don’t think employees…
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A Breakthrough in Company Performance
A few years back, I was in a local mentoring group through my SHRM chapter. I heard a story from one of the senior level HR professionals in the room that has forever stuck in my mind. Recently they had won an award as the “best place to work” in our area, and the others…