What do you know about Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation? Well that fancy-schmancy physics term is more commonly known by the acronym - LASER.

Metaphorically speaking, laser beams and organization-centric goal management (and there’s no acronym for that!) are amazingly similar.

Picture how a laser beam works:

When all the light waves from a given source come together so that that they’re all in phase, we end up with (you guessed it) a laser beam. And when [...]

It’s almost mid-December, which means the pressure is on for many of us to get our annual performance appraisals completed before the New Year. Amidst the end-of-year rush to finalize projects, and the distractions (dreams?) of much anticipated winter vacations, it’s easy for appraisals to slip off the agenda.

However, the one thing successful annual performance appraisals have in common is that they are carefully planned for – by both the employee AND the manager. So [...]

According to new research from Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute there are three distinct Talent Management characteristics among the most profitable large manufacturing companies:

• Defining a clear and explicit people strategy that is linked to the business strategy.
• Performing formal succession planning across the workforce.
• Linking employee pay directly with productivity of the company or to the respective manufacturing plant.

This week at AME Chigago 2012, a conference run by the [...]

Few HR professionals or C-level executives would deny the importance of workforce alignment in achieving their organizational goals.

Simply put, workforce alignment is about ensuring the goals of your workers are aligned with the objectives of the company. To borrow a common expression, [...]

Welcome to the third in our 5-part series of posts related to getting your managers to be better at talent management. In our previous posts we discussed delivering effective feedback and writing meaningful appraisals. Today we’re discussing managing goals.

Employee Goals Not Aligned?

Stop the ‘Set and Forget’ Goal Creation Syndrome

As you know, many managers still find it hard to write [...]