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Thanksgiving at the Office

Modern Servant Leader

Your performance review looked great as a result. Stop by your team member’s office, visit your business partner for lunch or take that time to email your old boss and let them know how they helped your career. The post Thanksgiving at the Office appeared first on Modern Servant Leader. Thank you all.

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Tough Love Performance Reviews, in 10 Minutes

Harvard Business Review

There’s growing evidence that conventional performance reviews are not working. According to a CEB analysis, organizations can only improve employee performance 3% to 5% using standard performance management approaches. As my company grew, I started seeing the issues with conventional reviews firsthand.

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External Hires May Highlight a People Development Failure

Modern Servant Leader

I’ve hired externally many times in my career. Assess Departure Risks Regularly: When conducting team performance reviews, assess which employees you believe are at risk for departure (hopefully few). In some instances, it was necessary due to excessive growth or the entry-level nature of a role.

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Coaching Others: Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain

Persuasive Powerhouse

Ongoing improvement in performance: Once self correction takes hold, your employees will continually strive to do their best. The best will raise the bar on their own performance on an ongoing basis. Can you imagine how much easier your performance reviews will be when that happens?

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Servant Leadership…Creating an Environment of Service | You're Not.

You're Not the Boss of Me

As such, while some people will experience great results from their efforts to serve; others will consider it a fad that will go away if they ignore it; and still others will make every effort to embrace the notion of the Servant Leader but find themselves exhausted, confused and possibly resentful because people seem to be walking all over them.

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How to Help Someone Discover Work That Excites Them

Harvard Business Review

.” Robert Kaplan, author of What You’re Really Meant to Do , states that “numerous studies of highly effective people point to a strong correlation between believing in the mission, enjoying the job, and performing at a high level.” Adopt a servant leader’s mindset.

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Servant Leader, You Are Not Alone

Modern Servant Leader

When you’re tired of watching people proclaimed “the greatest asset”, only to have performance reviews be an after thought, you are not alone. You are not alone, servant leader. Why Servant Leadership is the Future. Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For with Servant Leadership.