Today’s Reader Question centers on discussing the communication of the performance rating, or rather its timing. In a company where calibration takes place after the manager and employee have sat together to discuss the employee’s performance in the past year, when is it best to communicate the performance rating to the employee : at the…
When is the best time to communicate their performance rating to employees?
May 22, 2012 by 2 Comments
Is social performance management coming out of the closet?
March 20, 2012 by 5 Comments
At the end of 2011, Salesforce.com acquired Rypple, a provider of objective setting, feedback and recognition software. Salesforce.com is a vendor of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and expanded into HR with this acquisition. Last week, they announced their first new product, named “Salesforce Rypple”. This service is focused on social performance management. What does it mean ?…
Does competency-based performance management really work ?
March 1, 2012 by 4 Comments
About 2 years ago there was an interesting question on LinkedIn : “Does competency based approach at performance management really work ? Why ?”. It did not gather many responses, yet this is a question that arises in many organisations when they decide that their performance management system does not really live up to their…
To do peer ranking or not to do peer ranking..?
December 4, 2011 by 5 Comments
A recent post from Lance Haun at TLNT covered the results from a survey performed by a corporate networking organisation called ic4p. Titled “As Pay-for-Performance goes up, forced ranking is going down“, in this article Haun makes a good analysis of why the reasons for implementing pay-for-performance matter and make a difference between high performing…
A thought about what you really value in your organisation
November 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
As we head into year-end appraisals… and the week-end, this cartoon from great “corporate life” blog OneFte.com will be all for today. Think about what you really value in your organisation, and enjoy your week-end !
The Formula One effect on performance management
November 15, 2011 by 3 Comments
As I reflect on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that took place two days ago, I can’t help but make some parallels between Formula 1 and performance management. Here are a few not-so-random thoughts : Even the best can face failure. Sebastian Vettel was in pole position on the starting grid. It was his 14th…
How do you link performance management and a performance-driven culture ?
November 8, 2011 by 6 Comments
Today’s Reader Question comes from the comments on one my recent posts, “Percentiles – an easy way to figure it out”. Ahsan asked : “In your opinion how do you link performance management in building a performance driven culture in the organization?” First of all let’s make the assumption that all companies are looking to…
