HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Define Overall Business Objectives Define the company goals in terms of numbers as well as value additions and qualitative performance indicators that matter to the company. Examples of business objectives can include market expansion, revenue growth, cost reductions or optimization, product development, etc.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

This: Michael “I know a thing or two about performance reviews” Cardus’s Yearly Performance Reviews SUCK! Managers Can Change That. Innovation is a challenge because it is largely a right brain activity. The demand for innovation requires creative genius. I love Joe and Wanda on Management.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 2, 2023

Interview: Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators Written by Sonia Sharma-Karia Wednesday 02 August 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email How do we make equality, diversity and inclusion a measurable goal and an aspect of our strategic success?

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making Your Next Performance Review Meeting Less Stressful and More Effective – On November 10 at 2 pm ET Guy will give you tools, suggestions and a checklist for making your next performance review meeting you lead your best ever (whether it’s your first one ever, or just your first one this year).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Talent Management Helps Small Companies Make Big Moves by SuccessFactors Learn how small companies can achieve growth and productivity goals and ultimately transform themselves. Cut costs: Help your managers and employees spend less time shuffling paper and more time doing real work. Publications are entirely FREE to those who qualify.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Informed by these insights, we’ve made some changes to your CMI newsletter.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: Dee Hock’s quote nicely defines the product management perspective. As part of my quarterly performance reviews with my employees I insist that they build both their product road maps and their own personal roadmaps. — are the most valuable asset you own. Nice quote!

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

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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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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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. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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Workshop Blog Learning-by-Doing Video 179

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Instill discipline.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. I conducted independent performance reviews of many. I served on boards of directors, search committees, awards panels, review boards and task forces for many. Finding one’s passion.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 12, 2017

I’m sure you’ve heard of the 80/20 Rule before, but have you ever thought seriously about its impact on your talent management initiatives? Taming the Long Tail of Performance. You Must Treat Hyper Performers Differently. While the manager can get the discussion ball rolling using questions like “What are you learning here?”

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Tips Human Resources Motivation Long-term 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

As the beach-read season comes to a close, check out these new and forthcoming books from HBR Press: How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals: Simple, Effective, Done Right. Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Simply put, selvesware helps people identify, manage, and measurably improve their best, most productive selves. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. people already had that experience.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 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. Here’s how: Managing the Network’s Center. Yet, unfortunately progress did not match expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Only through knowing other cultures deeply can a manager effectively connect the dots between them and highlight meaningful differences between cultures that impact business strategy. And fortunes can reverse quickly if managers don't progress their multicultural understanding as markets continue to evolve.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2020

Quality control has always been important, but in today’s market, it is essential. If there are issues, customers will moan about them in online reviews and cause your ratings to crater. Prospects will then see these reviews and give your brand a wide berth. Performance reviews are a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

More companies and nonprofits are turning to external experts, on a project or temporary basis, to tap into unique skill sets and experience that they otherwise might not be able to access, afford, or locate in their market. We suggest that these competencies be employed in the selection, monitoring, and performance management of freelancers.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 29, 2010

I also believe there is a place for all of these in the workplace, that leadership is as much about these things as it is about building market share, managing the bottom line or developing strategic alliances. I believe in empathy, in kindness… and in love.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 18, 2023

You can always check for larger companies as well, and address it to the manager or leader of the recruitment team at a company. How to Write the Perfect Cover Letter for a Marketing Role Dear [Name of hiring manager], I am writing to express my interest in the Marketing Officer role that is available at [Company name].

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Letter Career How To Examples 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. These stats were reviewed by managers every week.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

In China, both multinational and Chinese companies are finding their dramatic growth goals constrained by the challenges of finding capable leaders at both the senior and middle management levels. Your colleagues, classmates, managers, and mentors can only help create multicultural opportunities for you if they know what you're looking for.

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Globalization Development Short-term Career 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

After all, who can remember getting a performance review saying, "You rock at conflict!" The parallels to business are likely obvious to you, but let's just complete the picture: Between the creation of a new idea and that idea becoming a new market reality, many different decisions and actions need to happen.

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Brand Energy Price Long-term 14

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. Measuring Marketing Insights. The Common Myths About Performance Reviews, Debunked.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." In the 21st century only IBM's Sam Palmisano has done so.

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Six Disciplines

JULY 14, 2011

The six fundamental disciplines involve strategy, planning, organizing, executing, innovating, and organizational learning. In this discipline, we help you to systematically review and renew your mission, values, market segments, competitive position, strategic position, vision, and agreeing what to stop doing.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing. Develop Customer Scorecards : You should actually profile your clientele such that you understand the difference between good accounts and bad accounts. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Here’s the arithmetic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” Boost your group’s performance. You and Your Team. Leading Teams. The team had a three-layer structure.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Social media provide both the raw and the cooked material allowing algorithmic innovators to bring a bit of digital dazzle to "influencer metrics." With a few exceptions (salespeople, thought-leaders, marketers), most organizations don't care about employee IQ — Influence Quotient — outside the enterprise.

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Competitive Advantage Media Metrics Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

I will never forget an Excel-enabled experience almost 20 years ago when a presenter toggled from histograms to pie charts to cells to macros to the raw data tables in a product performance review. I've (literally) seen this visualization influence recapitulated in hundreds of other design and innovation environments.

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