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3 Ways to Prepare for a Better Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

As I sat on the beach sipping my chardonnay, I vowed to never blow off preparing for a performance review again. Give it a try as you prepare for your own performance review, or share with your team to help them prepare for their meeting with you. 3 Ways to Prepare For a Better Performance Review.

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The Ambition Gap

Coaching Tip

It exempts new mothers and anyone else off work for at least 16 weeks from being measured against their peers for their performance review that year. Before 2010, “if you didn’t work a full year, it was very hard to get the top [performance] ranking,” remembers Jennifer Allyn, the firm’s diversity-strategy leader.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

An article by Greg Roper from 2015 indicated that interpersonal communication and conflict management were two of the most important skills to focus on, and that remains relevant today. Performance Reviews The format a company adopts for providing feedback to an employee can determine how the employee accepts and inculcates that feedback.

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Why Leaders Need To Stop Using Performance Reviews

Tanveer Naseer

I don’t like performance reviews. Here are three thumbnail cases against performance reviews that you should find terrifying. Argument 1: Performance reviews can put off for up to a year what needs attention now Performance reviews can be a passive-aggressive haven for managers afraid to lead in the present.

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Why More and More Companies Are Ditching Performance Ratings

Harvard Business Review

Companies such as Juniper and Adobe stopped giving people a one-to-five rating or evaluating employees on a “performance curve,” also known as the “forced ranking” approach. By early 2015, around 30 large companies, representing over 1.5 Yet in mid-2015, the trend started to accelerate.

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When the Media Covers Gender Inequality, the C-Suite Listens

Harvard Business Review

” and celebrated the findings of a Lean In and McKinsey Women in the Workplace study at a dinner event in late September 2015. Fortune also issued its first Best Workplaces for Women list and Forbes issued its 10 Great Places for Women in 2015 last March. No company should be comfortable being known as one of these.

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Most Doctors Have Little or No Management Training, and That’s a Problem

Harvard Business Review

Rather, we suggest a different approach: carving out a career path for younger physicians with leadership potential and creating a well-designed development pipeline so doctors emerge able to effectively lead large organizations of medical providers. Consider the example of Sound Physicians. A Tall Order.