iReview: Peformance Reviews for Small Business
Just heard about some new development going on here around a product called iReview. Basically, the idea is for small businesses or business units within larger organizations to have immediate access...
View ArticleTips for Annual Reviews
I was just pointed to this great post by a 15-year Microsoft employee named John Porcaro on doing annual reviews. As we all know, the process can be tough, and John provides some great advice for...
View ArticleToo Much Positive Feedback a Bad Thing?
In a truly facinating post at Fast Company, Heath Row discusses an academic study that attempts to understand the optimal ratio of positive feedback to negative feedback. Apparently a positive/negative...
View ArticleHow to Give (and Get) Feedback that Matters
Impactful isn’t a word, but it should be. Anyway, the prolific Susan Heathfield is talking about giving and receiving impactful feedback. She’s got 10 steps for both and some good tips, too. My...
View ArticlePerformance Reviews Done Too Quickly?
Is such a thing even possible? Well, I wasn’t able to attend our most recent user group meeting in Chicago, but Randy Reynolds tells me about an interesting comment from some of our customers. We...
View ArticleWhy is Peformance Management “De-energizing and Negative?”
Gautam’s talking about performance reviews today. He asks "If it serves so many functions why is it often such a de-energising and negative process?" It’s a fair question. Here are two guesses: 1. –...
View Article“The Office” Tackles Performance Reviews
Through the miracle of Tivo, I just caught "The Office" on NBC. If you don’t watch it, you should – it’s a brilliant commentary on the nature of working for a company. Anyway, this episode found the...
View ArticleThe Best Review Contest?
Regina at Bnet’s HR’s Brand New Experience blog thinks we should be having a best review contest in addition to a worst review contest. I like the angle, and she’s got a post about her best review...
View ArticleToo Many 360’s?
The Leadership Now blog talks about what can only be deemed a terrifically bad 360 process at a fortune 500 company. Don Blohowiak recounts the sad tale of a manager with so many 360′s to do, he and...
View ArticleImplementation is Key
Watson Wyatt released a study today which shows that while employers are leveraging best practices when designing their performance management programs, they are falling short in the implementation of...
View ArticleWorstreview.com at The Fast Company Weblog
Our little contest is covered over at FC Now by Kevin Ohannessian. Kevin also comes through with his own thoughts on why the performance review process is "along the lines of a trip to the DMV." He’s...
View ArticleMore on forced ranking
As a followup to a previous post on forced ranking, I thought you’d like to see this article at workforce.com. It reprints an appendix from Dick Grote’s new book called Forced Ranking: Making...
View ArticleOn-demand HR apps for SMBs
Interesting report from AMI Research showing that On-demand HR applications are taking off among small and medium sized businesses. There’s a very strong case to be made for software as a service...
View ArticleWooHoo, it’s performance review time
Over the weekend, Newsday – a NY newspaper – published an article called "Hey, boss, improve those performance reviews" that quoted some of the stories that have been submitted to our Worst Review...
View ArticleOn robots and performance reviews
The seeds of an interesting conversation are planting themselves here with this post called "So that’s why my peformance reviews sound like they were written by a robot" and here at systematicHR...
View ArticleFrank Lynn guest posts: When you have an army of direct reports
During the holidays, one of my good friends from Germany visited me with her boyfriend, Elger. At 33, Elger is one of the youngest Chief of Detectives in Germany. He’s an amazing guy—black-belt in...
View ArticleYou’re a bad manager and everyone knows it
This one should have made it into our worstreview contest. Via Regina comes a performance review that perhaps many employees would love to give, but don’t. There are probably a few lessons to be...
View ArticleDestroying your career in one easy step
I was forwarded this soon-to-be infamous email exchange between a spurned hiring lawyer and an uppity law school graduate today. It’s remarkable how little emotional intelligence is displayed on both...
View ArticleWhy smart employees should love, nay, DEMAND performance management
With all this talk of the downsides of performance management going on in the blogosphere, I thought I might take a look at this from the employee perspective. Hey wait, I AM an employee! Thusly: Some...
View ArticleHow to deal with a bad review
Some good advice on dealing with a bad performance review at Fortune/CNNMoney. The first bit: don’t be defensive. It’s everyone’s first instinct to try to prove why what we’ve done was the right thing,...
View ArticleLeveling the playing field and other tales of meritocracy
The Human Capitalist (known more properly as Jason Corsello of the Yankee Group) shares his views on Performance and Talent Management. Hint: he likes it. To wit: The solutions are not the...
View ArticlePerformance Reviews most pressing HR issue
You may have noticed a poll in the left-hand column over the past couple of weeks. Though clearly not scientific in any way, the poll has provided some insight into what’s on the minds of our readers....
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What drives employee engagement?
Our new poll for the next couple of weeks is on the topic of employee engagement. Specifically, what, in your opinion, are the most important drivers of engagement? The responses are based on a 2003...
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The fatal flaw of self-assessments
Everyone thinks they’re above average. This tidbit found via the Damn Interesting blog where they deconstructed a report by some Cornell researchers on the topic. What they found was that the worst...
View ArticleMicrosoft ditches forced ranking
Regina points us to a post by Robert Scoble – Microsoft’s unofficial but omnipresent blogger – on MS’s ditching if it’s forced ranking process. “One big thing that’s gone? Stack ranking. No longer am I...
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The sins of our bosses
DDI and Badbossology.com (that’s actually a real site) did a survey of 900+ employees to determine the worst (and best) qualities of a manager. And, the survey says: A bad manager: Tries too hard to...
View ArticleIs your performance management process about personnel administration or...
Performance management is like dancing: most people do it occasionally, few people do it well, and very few people use it to drive financial revenue. But unlike dancing, it is actually relatively easy...
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