Search Results for "performance"
- An Audacious Idea: Trust Your Employees
Date: January 6, 2010 | Section: Blog
Do you trust your employees? With a recent report from The Conference Board stating that only 45% of US employees are satisfied with their jobs, a number that has been steadily declining over the past 20 years, there is something bigger going on here, and it comes down to trust.
The human resources field at one [...] - An Audacious Idea: Performance Reviews are a Waste of Time
Date: January 4, 2010 | Section: Blog
Raise your hand if you love performance reviews. Wait, you mean you do not love arbitrary, illogical, incomprehensible, biased, capricious, political and subjective assessments of your work?
It is no surprise that performance reviews are the least enjoyable of corporate exercises, painful for both employees and managers. It is foisted upon the unwilling by human resources [...] - An Audacious Idea: Stop Doing Employee Surveys
Date: December 14, 2009 | Section: Blog
Memo to HR: PLEASE STOP WITH THE SURVEYS! One of three things occur with most of these of efforts; management uses the results to justify layoffs, management ignores the results, or management puts in expensive employee engagement programs that do little to increase productivity. Surveys do not beget positive business results.
Why? First, employees have become [...] - An Audacious Idea: Linking Business Performance and Human Performance
Date: December 11, 2009 | Section: Blog
It seems obvious that getting better performance in people is going to cascade to better business results, but do our HR practices and metrics really support this?
I am not taking about employee satisfaction or engagement, which are interesting buzzwords more often geared to support efforts to win “best workplace” awards. What I am taking about [...]