Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Research shows no one is happy with annual performance reviews—not executives, not managers, and not individual contributors. Even HR teams responsible for performance management aren’t convinced annual reviews provide value. Individuals remain motivated and challenged through meaningful stretch goals.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 13, 2011

So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and nominations for top-manager awards. Let the engineers do their stuff. Google, where performance reviews are done quarterly, rather than annually, saw huge swings in the ratings that employees gave to their bosses.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

What is Leadership, Really? New employees hoped to avoid getting a “bad” boss and stayed worried about their pay raises and performance reviews. All these pressures have changed the requirements for great leadership. Leadership as a Force. Leadership in the wild is an adaptable and helpful force, not a role.

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Wilde Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Open-book 150

HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2019

Organizational governance, annual performance reviews, forced ranking – fail to deliver desired outcomes. Develop an implementation strategy that allows your business to identify barriers and accumulate victories. Today, the old ways of running a workplace are quickly becoming outdated. No one should expect this to be easy.

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Micromanagement Cost Resistance Bottom-up 89

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

“Companies in which leaders at every level nurture a culture where employees can develop a sense of ownership in what they do are the companies that excel.” Companies in which leaders at every level nurture a culture where employees can develop a sense of ownership in what they do are the companies that excel.

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Silverman Career Succession Ethics 113

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Performance appraisals in start ups are either awesome conversations or dreaded. The former in a small start up and the latter during the growth phases (assuming performance review discussions actually happen). Often, entrepreneurs in a company need team development to ensure that performance is achieved by working together.

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Entrepreneur Human Capital Human Resources Talent Management 147

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Top management has as a priority the need to develop and practice People development, skills and team building responsibilities.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As a Corporate Strategist TM , Hank speaks and advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, executive-leadership development, futurism and the Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. He has conducted 300+ performance reviews of organizations. He is a mentor to senior management.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Why are there so few women in leadership roles? As a proxy for the likelihood of being promoted, we also tested for influence, on the theory that people who are seen as influential are more likely to be promoted to leadership roles. In other words, for male engineers, competence and perceived confidence go hand in hand.

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Engineering Influence Performance Review Conference 14

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2012

But developing that talent takes serious work, both from employees and their managers—just like the thousands of hours my friend put in every day after school, along with the encouragement and instruction from his dad and his coach. Developing talent—that is, helping every employee reach their potential—should be a goal of every leader.

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Development Executive Coaching Mentor Open-book 268

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership.

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Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

We also learned that vague feedback is correlated with lower performance review ratings for women — but not for men. Stereotypes about women’s care-giving abilities may cause reviewers to more frequently attribute women’s accomplishments to teamwork rather than team leadership.

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Review Performance Review Analysis Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Leaders like this often ignore criticism if it doesn’t jibe with their view of themselves — and such feedback is easy to ignore if it’s buried in a performance review or mentioned briefly in a larger conversation. Only then can a coach help them challenge self-limiting beliefs that block their development.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leading By Example & Mistaken Beliefs Ambiguity in Leadership is a Certainty → June 16, 2009 · 3:13 am ↓ Jump to Comments In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs Some time ago, I read a book called “ A Peacock in the land of Penguins ”.

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Gordon Open-book Library Diversity 46

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Only a distinct minority of companies are truly adept at succession planning and career development — and even these firms tend to focus on only a few senior-level people. Confidence that you'll get the feedback you need from your boss in your annual performance review.

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Positioning Career Execution Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

The best CEOs call on their management toolkit to transform sales into a growth engine by focusing on three actions in particular: Crank up the analytics. That means getting sales leaders to develop a comprehensive assessment of current operations before setting up clear back-office processes to support the front line while managing costs.

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CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership → January 5, 2010 · 1:37 am ↓ Jump to Comments When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master My son has been helping me learn more about Social Media. Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership → Like Be the first to like this post. Time for a revolution, I say.

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Learning-by-Doing Media Blog Technology 41

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

After 12 years, 50% of technical women, predominately in engineering and computer science, had switched to other fields; 20% of other women professionals had done the same. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. We later observed 36 hours of performance calibration reviews in three companies. Insight Center.

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Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

We’ve found that answering three questions can help transform culture from a mystery to a science: 1) How does culture drive performance? In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2013

For a senior executive I'll call Karen, one of those defining moments came most unexpectedly when her boss tried to give her a one-line performance review for the third year in a row. A major reason Karen hadn't recognized, until her moment of truth, how much freedom she had was that she had never received formal leadership training.

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Compliance Project Performance Review Executive Coaching 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Business development. There is the need to develop better information to help management make better decisions. What a Review Could Include: Among the components and professional specialties that could be represented in a performance review, per each branch on the Business Tree, include: Branch 1: Core business, core industry.

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Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine. Design the processes by which the board does its regular work — strategy development and approval, capital approvals, performance reviews, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

“They adapt more quickly to new roles, get higher performance reviews, and show others they are committed to doing their jobs.” ” And while advice on areas in which you can develop is often the most useful, “there is value in asking for positive feedback as well,” says Batista. ” she says.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 24, 2012

A colleague from another business school recommended the book, The Future of Leadership Development, Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools , edited by IESE Business School Dean Jordi Canals. She said it helped set the direction for her executive development program and really got her thinking about our profession.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Globalization 256

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion report, Uncovering Talent , reveals that 61% of all employees “cover” their identities in some way – not necessarily hiding something, but downplaying it for fear of drawing unwanted attention or making others uncomfortable. But this isn’t just an issue for LGBT professionals.

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Diversity Talent Management Fashion Performance Review 12