by DAVID | Oct 31st, 2007 | Leadership & Management |
We asked for your scariest employee performance appraisal stories, your worst fears and the things that cause you nightmares. Your answers were truly frightening!
The winner of our contest is…
Michele Zammit, ICAP Service North America LLC
Congratulations Michele!
Here’s a selection of some of the best responses. You might feel a haunting shiver or two as you read some of these.
What is your scariest appraisal story?
A manager who just copied his employees’ self appraisals and [...]
by DAVID | Oct 26th, 2007 | Performance Management |
In many organizations, the type of work done and the organizational structure have radically changed. Relationships are no longer limited to those between boss and employee. They have been expanded to include those between project leaders, managers, peers and the employee. This shift makes the “traditional” process of a single boss assessing an employee’s performance less and less typical, and changes the rules of performance appraisals in a big way.
The idea of including
by DAVID | Oct 19th, 2007 | Succession Planning |
BusinessWeek’s Managing IQ blog always has interesting posts on how to “manage smarter”. A recent post The Coming Brain Drain talks about the fear that in a matter of a few years, there’s going to be no one left with any real experience in corporate North America. It cites a study from Monster that has a number of statistics on knowledge retention – all of which drive home the increasing urgency [...]
by DAVID | Oct 11th, 2007 | Learning Management |
A few weeks ago, we revealed our new Halogen eLMS at the user conference. The response from our customers was extremely positive. A performance-based learning management system is a new direction, but it is really the natural next step for talent management.
While big companies have been using LMS for years, these systems were designed to address the administrative burdens of training departments. Traditional stand-alone LMS offerings were not linked to HR or [...]
by DAVID | Oct 10th, 2007 | Pay for Performance |
Great article by Kris Dunn on Workforce.com on the role of money in retaining top talent. The article makes some telling observations about what companies can really do to keep true high performers happy.
It cites a poll from BusinessWeek the “Future of Work” which reports that 90 percent of surveyed managers counted themselves among the top 10 percent of performers within their company. The reality is that most employees aren’t stars – but [...]
