Three Reasons To Change Your People System, Part 1: Are You Promoting People Only To Watch Them Fail?
Up to half of all first time managers fail. Why does it happen, and how can you stop it?
Category: Leadership
ALL AT SEA: Leading The Liquid Workforce
New research says the future of work is gloriously unstructured. But what should you do when people need structure?
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That new manager isn’t waving, she’s drowning!
Throwing people in the deep end is a great way to destroy careers. Try teaching them to swim instead.
Donkeys, Frogs and Beavers (or why you shouldn’t try too hard to make people “fit in”)
“Culture” means a lot of things, it doesn’t have to mean conformity.
The Art of Leadership
If Sun Tzu were alive today, he would tell business leaders to roll up their sleeves and do some very hard work. Talk about leadership is everywhere. Business schools, bloggers, pundits and leaders themselves are all obsessed with the topic. Apparently we all agree that leadership is the vital ingredient in the success of an Read more about The Art of Leadership[…]
Sorry, you still need annual reviews
The rush to replace performance management with agile, instantaneous and individualised feedback may sweep away the good with the bad. In a previous post we talked about why performance management fails, and mentioned a growing list of prominent businesses that are abandoning it. These leading companies, such as Deloitte, Accenture and Adobe have recognised that Read more about Sorry, you still need annual reviews[…]
The Common Non-Sense of Performance Management
Performance Management (PM) is the most common way employees’ contributions are measured and valued. Since the bad old days of “rank and yank” PM has been refined repeatedly, but rating performance against key indicators or goals remains at the heart of modern people management. Unfortunately, despite all attempts at reform, Performance Management just doesn’t Read more about The Common Non-Sense of Performance Management[…]