Performance management

How to Work Smarter

How to Work Smarter

“Work smarter, not harder,” is a phrase many workers have heard throughout their careers. But what does it mean to work smart?

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This thing called Coaching!

This thing called Coaching!

Coaching can be one way to do this and can be used for a number of reasons, perhaps in achieving the goals of a particular project, developing personal skills or enhancing performance across the business.

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Know thyself!

Know thyself!

In this months latest blog we take a look at the values of self-awareness in business and what we can do to try and develop it.

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An Alternative to Performance Appraisal

An Alternative to Performance Appraisal

Back in the 1950s academics including Likert (1959) were reporting that “Performance Review interviews as a rule are seriously deflating to employee’s sense of importance and self-worth.” Many years later and still many employees question the value of the appraisal discussion. In 2010, for example, Duncan Brown chaired the annual CIPD Performance Management conference and likewise he found that delegates questioned the “practice and quality of performance management in their organisations.”

I have worked in organisations myself where I have been tasked with ‘reviewing the performance appraisal system’ which I have done with great diligence, only to find a year later that people are still not motivated by it and view it as the ‘annual ritual.’

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