HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

While it’s easy to fall into the trap of using generic phrases and templates, truly effective performance reviews require a personalized touch. To make the most of performance appraisals, it’s important to use performance appraisal examples that reflect your organization’s culture and values.

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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.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

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. 2 Responses PuristProductManagement , on June 12, 2009 at 3:36 pm said: Yes, couldn’t agree more, I think that personal investment is absolutely critical. Nice quote!

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Many of these hybrid workers are professionals like lawyers, accountants, marketers, and software engineers, most with a college degree or higher. They say that training, mentoring, innovation, and company culture suffer when employees are not in the office five days a week. Critics often mix up hybrid work with fully remote work.

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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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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. These are not performance reviews or interrogation sessions, but time allocated to listening, understanding and addressing issues while building confidence and educating. As a leader do you have regular (formal and informal) one-on-one discussions with your team?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2022

This pool of around 27 million workers is frequently overlooked in the labor market, and consists of military veterans, people with mental health problems and physical disabilities, and, of course, those with a criminal record. Recent research from the RAND Corporation highlights the scale of the problem.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

This involves aligning the TNA with the company’s strategic priorities, such as improving financial performance, enhancing operational efficiency, or expanding into new markets. This will help identify the gaps between the current and required competencies.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Introduce new products: Hire better, develop faster and retain your best employees by creating a climate that allows innovation to flourish. Enter new markets: With the right skills and the proper alignment with business goals, your people can accelerate your growth.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The larger organization often doesn’t directly oppose innovations in processes that are in place; but by reinstating old management practices the organization undermines the system that allowed those processes to be successful. It is very difficult to copy when you start undoing the cultural things.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 26, 2023

Instead, use performance reviews, in-person chats or time before or after meetings to give constructive suggestions. Our Situational Leadership ® methodology and innovative courses equip leaders to engage in effective performance feedback, building trust and strengthening their organization. Taking a course can help.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Here are some different types of leadership feedback: Formal Performance Reviews: These are regularly scheduled feedback sessions (often annually or semi-annually) where leaders receive feedback about their performance from superiors. This transparency and clarity helped in executing the plan smoothly and with confidence.”

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Instill discipline. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I conducted independent performance reviews of many. I served on boards of directors, search committees, awards panels, review boards and task forces for many. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. I have worked with more than 1,500 non-profit, public sector, and non-governmental entities over many decades.

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HR Digest

MAY 14, 2024

Diversity and Inclusion : Promoting a diverse and inclusive culture enhances creativity and innovation, contributing to broader market reach and adaptability. These innovations enhance the efficiency and security of HR processes, from recruitment to retirement planning.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 2, 2023

They also have a 20% higher rate of innovation, according to a Boston Consulting Group study. McKinsey & Company reported that in 2020 the global market for EDI-related efforts was estimated at $7.5bn, yet at the current rate, it will take another 151 years to close the global economic gender gap.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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]. Let’s look at some cover letter examples for different job roles. I hope I have the chance to prove myself to the company soon.

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HR Digest

MAY 18, 2024

This can be achieved through a variety of methods, such as employee self-assessments, performance reviews, and 360-degree feedback. By crafting and implementing comprehensive competency development plans, companies can empower their employees to grow, adapt, and thrive, ultimately driving sustainable success and innovation.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Learn how to approach performance reviews and appraisals effectively when you have to do them remotely.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 12, 2017

In lieu of an annual performance review, introduce the “stay interview” with the high performers in your organization. According to The Stay Interview by Richard Finnegan, employees–not supervisors–should set the agenda for these performance development meetings. 2 – Conduct stay interviews.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

For example, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) built a leading 40% share of the Chinese fast food market through patiently tailoring its product offering to local tastes and building a strong team of local managers. And fortunes can reverse quickly if managers don't progress their multicultural understanding as markets continue to evolve.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. executive whose 360-degree performance reviews point to a brusque and alienating communication style. The chance to make more people more valuable worldwide is a market opportunity that could and should prove bigger than bots. Putting Data to Work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Similar dynamics can be found in India, Brazil , and other emerging markets, with the growing need for global business acumen just as acute in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In the past, bringing a multicultural approach to business leadership was often viewed as a lucky accident of birth or upbringing.

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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. Yet, unfortunately progress did not match expectations. Exchange programs or rotational programs can help here, too.

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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. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability.

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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. ow performance is managed, for example, the frequency of performance reviews and the important factors in that review.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

When hospitals employ physicians on an annual salary as we do at Cleveland Clinic, a doctor is paid the same no matter how many patients he sees, how many procedures he performs, or how many tests he orders. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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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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