Raise Your Hand If You Like Performance Reviews
Raise your hand if you like performance reviews. No? No one likes the annual performance review: The employee doesn’t like to write a self-review The manager doesn’t want to write about the employee’s performance The face to face conversation on the past year’s...
Millennials Changing the Way We Work
I recently gave a special presentation at the Middlesex West Chamber of Commerce. Business Education Seminar: Staff Management This seminar covered assessing staff strengths and capabilities, motivating staff and staff performance assessments and reviews. Watch the...
Don’t Get Distracted by a Pebble in Your Shoe
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” – the late Muhammed Ali on perseverance, paraphrasing a similar quote from the early 1900s. Ali was the symbol of perseverance in the 1970s, coming back to recapture the...
Not-So-New Unconventional Leadership Styles
Fast Company recently posted an article about “New Unconventional Leadership Styles.” The author makes the case that these styles are intentional, but I think it's difficult to learn a particular style if you don’t already have a natural leaning that way. Director of...