New Must-Read Posts from Around the Web

As a blogger, I spend a lot of time reading posts from other bloggers on a wide variety of talent management related subjects. While I can’t blog on absolutely every great post I read, I thought I could share a few of the best ones I’ve read lately.

How to Provide Meaningful Performance Management
Great post from The Accidental-HR Manager which looks at some of the key elements of successful performance management. I like the distinction made up front on how performance management is a day-to-day thing. Another key take away is on how to make the actual performance appraisal more productive.

Five Ways to Give Praise
Charlotte Britto from the Leadership in Action blog shares five different ways to give employees praise and a lot good reasons why every manager should bother. It offers up some interesting stats on the subject – and why managers don’t praise more often.

Employee Surveys – Good Tool or Corporate Noise?
Kris Dunn over at Fistful of Talent takes a look at the employee survey, looking at both the pro and con camp. He shares four issues from Jack Welch that need to be addressed if you are going to do an employee survey, which are worth noting. Good advice here for anyone that does a survey, or thinking of it – particularly Kris’ parting advice of not doing the survey “until you are positive you are ready to take the time to probe as an organization.”

Do you have any recent posts you think we should share? Send them my way!