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Category Archives: Performance
Leadership Styles and Perception
A common question during interviews as well as performance reviews is: what is your leadership style? Although this is a pertinent issue for a variety of reasons, one of the core, underlying issues of leadership style pertains to how well … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Organizations, Performance
Tagged leadership, managing, managing people, perception, results, style
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Success with Pay for Performance
As discussed in the last post, perceptions regarding pay for performance may vary by level in an organization. Although most would agree that no one believes their system is perfect, perceptions on how well this compensation strategy accomplishes it stated … Continue reading
Posted in Compensation, Organizations, Performance
Tagged compensation, customer experience, pay, pay for performance, performance reviews, reviews
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Differences in Performance Perceptions
As the recession pushed organizations to practice care in spending while attempting to hang on to their highest value talent, pay for performance experienced a renewal. Faced with limited resources and increased demand for efficiency, leaders appealed to their higher … Continue reading
Posted in Compensation, Organizations, Performance
Tagged employees, execution, implementation, leaders, motivation, pay for performance, perception, performance, supervisors
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Motivation and Money
Most of us know the feeling of having to strengthening our resolve to do something that we dread. As a student, it may be completing homework that holds no interest to us, attending a class that lulls us to sleep … Continue reading
Posted in Performance, Workforce
Tagged extrinsic, intrinsic, money, motivation, rewards
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The Danger of Excuses
Excuses make us human. They incorporate our imagination, higher level rationalization skills, desire for acceptance, and propensity for avoiding negative feelings or feedback. All of us have provided an excuse to cover our failure to meet expectations, when circumstances inhibited … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Performance, Workforce
Tagged accountability, excuses, responsibility
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Naughty and Nice
We have all dealt with a “naughty” or problem employee. Most of us can close our eyes and remember at least one person we worked with that contributed little, yet stirred up controversy and consumed a disproportionate amount of time … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Performance, Workforce
Tagged disruptive employee, poor performer, problem employee
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History and Value: Association
Although there is considerable value in producing measures, greater rewards result from connecting data with other data. When we compare to two variables or the same variable for two different points in time, greater perspective occurs. Put simply, when we … Continue reading
Posted in HR Operations, Organizations, Performance, Workforce
Tagged association, correlation, HR analytics, human resource metrics, measurement
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HR Analytics: 101
Recently, a few readers have sent questions regarding HR analytics. Like any paradigm shift, the level of understanding, commitment, as well as utilization of these new techniques and tools varies by leader, team, and organization. For those of us that … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Performance
Tagged analytics, HR analytics, HR innovation, HR technology, predictive analytics
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Going Together: Engagement and Performance
Most accept that engagement provides a critical precursor to optimal productivity and performance in any organization. Today, most organizations not only monitor engagement, but also evaluate managers on the engagement of their workforce along with other performance-based outcomes. Yet, we … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Organizations, Performance, Uncategorized, Workforce
Tagged discipline, engagement, performance
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I See It Everywhere
Most of us have had those moments of when we discover something we like or have is all around us. Think of the last time you bought a car. As you consider your options and select a car, all of … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Performance, Workforce
Tagged observational selection bias, seeing, sensitivity
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