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The trend in government and business these days is to cut workers across the board with little notice and shared strategy. It’s done in the name of improving efficiency. But mindlessly cutting workers doesn’t achieve this goal. Instead, it leaves…
Read More Mindless workforce cost-cutting could cut down your business
Organizations that use performance management systems that set goals, continually clarify priorities, help employees develop, and reward performance outperform those that do not. In volatile times organizations are pressured to digitize, continually improve, innovate, and respond to dramatic political and…
Read More Use performance management to increase growth and improve employee morale
Gallup reported this month that only 20 percent of Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) from Fortune 500 companies believe that their performance management systems inspire employees to improve performance. But there’s worse news yet. Only two percent of CHROs believe…
Read More Performance management remains in the doldrums. Seven steps to improve it
Job satisfaction scores have fallen to their lowest point since early 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. To my mind, employees are stressed-out and frightened about being replaced by OpenAI or a robot. Employees are unhappy due to a…
Many managers complain about providing performance management feedback. They find it unpleasant, say it leads to more trouble than it is worth, and complain that employees don’t always make the changes needed to improve performance. An IT manager once told…
Read More Improve employee performance by focusing on the positive
According to news reports over the last decade or so, performance management is on the way out. It has survived after many changes, like dropping forced rankings. Today, some believe it is too anxiety-inducing and the terms “feedback” and “performance…
Read More Trust is essential for performance management feedback
Before the pandemic, I was giving a seminar on implementing hybrid work to drive up productivity, better attract and retain employees, and cut costs. Part of the training included recommendations on the technology to enable hybrid work, such as video…
According to The Conference Board, US workers have never been more content, despite the pandemic, quiet quitting, quiet firing, and the forwards and backwards over hybrid working. Overall job satisfaction among US workers increased in 2022 to its highest point…
Read More Job satisfaction at all-time high thanks to hybrid working and job switching.
Google researchers launched Project Oxygen 15 years ago to understand what makes people great managers. In 2018, some 10 years after Google’s original report, its researchers looked again at their results to understand if the initial findings had held true…
Read More Google’s 10 Behaviors of Great Managers continue to succeed!
Earlier this month, a Delaware court found that McDonald’s Corp. board members and the company’s chief human resources officer did not violate their duty to shareholders in handling sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, ruling that the directors’ response was legally…
Read More CHRO’s can be held liable for not stopping rampant sexual misconduct.
