Coaching Tip

MARCH 13, 2011

Google clearly hopes to recapture some of the nimbleness and innovative spirit of its early years. So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and nominations for top-manager awards. They wanted to build better bosses. And how do you do it ?”.

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Chart Your Course

MAY 31, 2016

This costs companies upward of $550 billion annually, according to a State of the American Workplace report. These goals should be talked about in performance reviews and regularly discussed during meetings. Innovative companies across the country are embracing the power of the nap with private nap pods on site.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Here are some different types of leadership feedback: Formal Performance Reviews: These are regularly scheduled feedback sessions (often annually or semi-annually) where leaders receive feedback about their performance from superiors. This transparency and clarity helped in executing the plan smoothly and with confidence.”

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 17, 2011

When you join this fre’e community you will gain instant to 30 video special reports; the recordings of two teleseminars – one from me on the transition to leadership, and one from Guy on delivering my effective performance reviews; a copy of one of Guy’s currently out of print books; an excerpt of the new book and much more.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 2, 2023

They also have a 20% higher rate of innovation, according to a Boston Consulting Group study. McKinsey & Company reported that in 2020 the global market for EDI-related efforts was estimated at $7.5bn, yet at the current rate, it will take another 151 years to close the global economic gender gap.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I don’t like performance reviews. They are like school report cards, only less well-meaning and more poorly formed. Here are three thumbnail cases against performance reviews that you should find terrifying. The following is a guest piece by former Disney executive Ken Goldstein. It’s not leadership.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Steve’s post is timely for many leaders who are starting to think about, or are in the middle of performance review season. Invite them to share in your development–directly–by asking these questions. …… Read his questions here.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Inclusivity issues F ive years on from the introduction of mandatory gender pay gap reporting, a CMI Managers Voice poll found that only 17% of managers believe their organisation is using gender pay gap data to make positive changes. Learn how to approach performance reviews and appraisals effectively when you have to do them remotely.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2014

Managers report not having time to attend training and professional development is stuck in the 1980’s; and, since when do we actually offer managers positive rewards for doing great work. They often don’t understand strategy or how it ties to a performance review (just as one example). So, spell it out for them—every time.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 7, 2015

In each case, these hospital cleaners were found to not only be more creative and innovative in how they approached their work cleaning the rooms and hallways of this hospital, but they were more engaging with the nurses, patients, and visitors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

They are essential for suggesting, developing, and sustaining innovative new projects and for helping companies stay competitive. In fact, many face obstacles when trying to innovate in their organizations. Moreover, we found that a middle managers’ appetite for risk reduced the performance of their proactive initiatives.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For instance, research published last year highlighted the digital transformation of performance management, with those organizations able to take a data-driven approach to people and performance management gaining a clear edge.

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CO2

AUGUST 1, 2010

“Just Ask” leadership Business schools don’t teach courses on question asking, so leaders typically don’t study and analyze questions the way they would a quarterly report or a performance review. The devaluing of questions can be attributed, in large part, to our educational system. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

And as anyone who has ever given or received a traditional performance review knows, this process can be highly subjective — even in the most metrics-obsessed organizations. Conventional performance reviews can also undermine a company’s agility and lead to missed opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

We see big changes ahead in performance management. Organizations like GE and Accenture are experimenting with new approaches to that old shibboleth: the annual performance review. Freelancers Union reports that as much as 40% of the U.S. But the more important drivers are speed, flexibility, and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

It will be the difference between getting a report and having a conversation. Yet when advanced NLG becomes the main communication vehicle of their reporting process, interacting with this data gets easier. Not just the charts and graphs – advanced NLG makes it possible for a computer to write the report itself.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

In the spirit of the "open source" and "open innovation" movements, that gives them greater power and influence. All the ingredients for innovatively fusing these techniques and technologies into cost-effective assessment services businesses have been around for over a decade. It's easier to see what's going on and why.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Your boss calls you into her office for your annual performance review. What two apps have most improved and enhanced the productivity and effectiveness of your direct reports? Does your company, client community or innovation ecosystem have an App Club? How do you know? So where was Oprah's App Club?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2020

It creates a suffocating environment where everyone is terrified of being innovative and introducing ideas, just in case it has some unwanted knock-on effect. Performance reviews are a case in point. Give the people who volunteer exclusive authority to evaluate and review processes at every stage of your operation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. The Innovation Instigator. The Innovation Manager.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

But it's not hard to rephrase them from a direct report's point of view — in effect, a "Direct Reports' Bill of Rights" — as follows. Every direct report should be able to expect that the boss will: Be Trustworthy. Why is this important? How would you fare in the eyes of your people if they applied these standards?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

It's performance review season, and you know the drill. Drag each of your direct reports into a conference room for a one-on-one, hand them an official-looking document, and then start in with the same, tired conversation. What a performance appraisal requires is for one person to stand in judgment of another.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

This finding has remained consistent since 2000, when Gallup first began measuring and reporting on U.S. But the majority of employees are indifferent, sleepwalking through their workday without regard for their performance or their organization’s performance. workplace engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Employee performance reviews are a hot topic once again. Many people think real-time peer reviews will be a key piece of the puzzle. Another company might choose to emphasize fiscal responsibility, collaboration, or innovation. What practices should be instituted instead? Embrace new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Of the responses tallied, 64% reported a BMI of more than 70, while less than 1% had a BMI under 40. Of the respondents who reported a BMI of less than 40, three-fourths worked in organizations with fewer than 100 employees. budgeting, goal-setting, performance reviews) to be “very helpful.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

This becomes more likely as the organization takes on strategic risk — through innovation, mergers and acquisitions, or because its environment is becoming more volatile. To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

A significant part of the problem is that work occurs through collaboration in networks of relationships that often do not mirror formal reporting structures or standard work processes. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Use data and analytics to understand where silos exist , in order to unlock possible agile collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

While you would expect online giants like Amazon and companies like Netflix to be early innovators in the use of data to recommend products or movies, you only care about the answer to one question: what does big data mean for the everyday employee and how can regular businesses extract real value from it?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

How did you perform in managing a major project? Many companies provide you with so-called 360-degree feedback based on anonymous surveys from your boss, peers, and direct reports. And there is also, of course, your annual performance review.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Her performance reviews suffered, causing her even greater anxiety. ” She recorded the results, and reported them during our coaching conversations. To progress, Anne needed tasks and tools that would enable her to overcome her anxiety and learn to communicate more powerfully.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Some were worried that the data collected would be used for their performance reviews. During the first half of 2016, ED-CELL will use it to automate the reporting to government agencies and regulatory bodies of key quality metrics (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. The Common Myths About Performance Reviews, Debunked. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If you speak candidly with a manager's direct reports about his development needs, their comments tend to focus on a fairly predictable set of issues: fairness, delegation, openness to their ideas, the quality of performance feedback, coaching, and career guidance. To succeed, as Odysseus did, keep three things in mind.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. Evaluate team performance. Still, both she and Mankins agree, it''s worth the effort to get it right.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

If you ask consultants or trainers to name all the people skills, they’re likely to name fewer than ten, certainly no more than fifteen. But actually, there are several dozen essential people skills.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 27, 2012

Their research is built on a massive database that now contains 300,000 responses from managers, peers, and direct reports who completed 360 feedback surveys across leadership 16 competencies on over 35,000 leaders. The aggregated leadership effectiveness scores were then correlated with organization performance data.

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