Blowing up the Annual Performance Review | Business Help

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. ~ Peter F. Drucker When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. ~ Joe Paterno Last month I took aim at [...]

Performance Appraisals Often Hurt Performance

I was very pleased to have a CEO client tell me he was considering tossing out their whole performance appraisal system.  They hired a firm to help them build it several years ago, modified it for all departments, trained all managers and supervisors in using it and felt really good about it.  But it doesn't [...]

The Elephant in the Room

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. ~ Rudy Giuliani I’ve noticed during my years as a business consultant that many organizations have become masters at ignoring the elephant in the room. These companies have one or more employees who perform poorly – and in many cases they’ve been under performing for [...]