The Recovering Engineer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

In developing the book, Kevin and I thought of many ways to get the tips, techniques, insights, and ideas we developed in the book into as many people’s hands as possible, and you have an opportunity to take advantage of two of those events in the next few weeks. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience.

Performance Review 105

Performance Review Engineering FAQ Emotional Intelligence 105

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

It revealed that adding women to software development teams not only boosted team performance but also reduced workplace delinquency. “Companies should recruit more women to their development teams not only for obvious ethical reasons but because this will improve performance.

Ries 92

Ries Software Emotional Intelligence Ethics 92

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.

Project 161

Project Performance Review Survey Review 161

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 Today, the old ways of running a workplace are quickly becoming outdated.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.

Micromanagement 89

Micromanagement Cost Resistance Bottom-up 89

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.

Entrepreneur 147

Entrepreneur Human Capital Human Resources Talent Management 147

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

New employees hoped to avoid getting a “bad” boss and stayed worried about their pay raises and performance reviews. Diversity is more than “does and bucks;” it is an attitude of continual learning and passionate curiosity–the engines of breakthroughs. Leadership as a Force.

Wilde 150

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

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

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. Business development.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

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.

Silverman 114

Silverman Career Succession Ethics 114

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.

Drucker 62

Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

We conducted a study analyzing the judgments that colleagues made regarding the competence and warmth of 236 engineers working in project teams at a multinational software development company. In other words, for male engineers, competence and perceived confidence go hand in hand.

Engineering 14

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.

Development 268

Development Executive Coaching Mentor Open-book 268

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Career is about work: having a job that provides autonomy, allows you to use your strengths, and promotes your learning and development. We also didn’t see any major differences by level, or by performance reviews: people valued these three motivators whether they were exceeding, meeting, or falling short of expectations.

Maslow 15

Maslow Company Motivation Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Virtual agents like Alexa and Siri only perform tasks; our digital selves will actually determine and define those tasks. Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. Putting Data to Work.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

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.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

He instituted weekly business performance review (BPR) meetings that required a new level of rigor, scrutiny, and detailed analysis from the company’s leaders. Guest post from Denise Lee Yohn: It's been 10 years since Alan Mulally pulled off what has been considered one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in U.S.

Brand 193

Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

This can be as technically straightforward as pre-hire assessment and on-boarding (admissions testing) or as challenging as mid-career professional development (new majors with high probability for high performance success).

Career 15

Career Company Human Capital Education 15

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.

Execution 15

Execution Executive Coaching Self-aware CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. The ED-CELL team developed software to provide the stream of RFID data to frontline staff in a usable manner. and Patricia E.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

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.

Review 8

Review Performance Review Analysis Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Your boss calls you into her office for your annual performance review. Effective "app-lication" seems a reasonable proxy for helping assess how seriously knowledge workers develop themselves, their people and their opportunities.

Management 13

Management Engineering Open-book Performance Review 13

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.

CEO 15

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

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.

Positioning 15

Positioning Career Execution Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly. Set up “communities of practice” or business development initiatives to help share expertise or resources.

Agility 14

Agility Team How To Project 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

If we use an automobile analogy, sales efficiency (SE) initiatives — like CRM, training, and KPI dashboards — improve the engine’s horsepower. Performance reviews. The most under-utilized lever for improving sales is the performance review.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products CRM Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

Yet this rarely happens in management, even though we must develop and integrate dozens of discrete skills. Some are almost universally required — for instance, setting goals, coordinating across units, and intervening when a subordinate’s performance is slipping. Take charge of your own development.

Project 8

Project Skills Creativity Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

Albert DiBernardo, who is now the head of strategy and development for a major engineering firm, told his board three years ago that he’d be retiring at age 65, and in his performance review last year set a specific departure date: December 31, 2017.

Consultative 8

Consultative How To Career Planning 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.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

Our brains are difference engines, trained to find and deal with patterns and their disruption. 13 Responses to In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs Chuck Musciano June 16, 2009 at 7:45 pm Engaging and learning from “different&# people is always a challenge.

Gordon 46

Gordon Open-book Library Diversity 46

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

After all, who can remember getting a performance review saying, "You rock at conflict!" Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? That's why there's little pushback on pricing, obsolescence, or disappointing developers. Most of us generally avoid conflict. And that's alignment. Why is that?

Brand 14

Brand Energy Price Long-term 14

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.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

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. That's often the case for people who are promoted because they are great engineers or physicians, for example. She is not alone.

Compliance 8

Compliance Project Performance Review Executive Coaching 8

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. Terms such as “crushes it” and “kills it” were used to describe top performers. Insight Center.

Focus Group 8

Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

Jonena (Employee performance improvment consultant) Reply Gwyn Teatro January 7, 2010 at 10:34 pm Hi Jonena, Right! As my husband is fond of saying, “There is nothing wrong with my memory, it’s my Search Engine that is a little faulty!&# And yet we continue to buy this stuff and accept that this is just the way it is.

Learning-by-Doing 41

Learning-by-Doing Media Blog Technology 41

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.

How To 8

How To Construction Case Study Project 8

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.

Leadership Development 256

Leadership Development Development Leadership Globalization 256

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. Boost your group’s performance. Those with moderate governance support had a 19% success rate.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8