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Strategic Employee Recognition Critical to Strong Manager/Employee Relationships

Recognise This! – Gallup research shows “best” managers empower, recognise and communicate with their employees regularly, supported by an effective performance management system. If present trends continue, this week’s series...

Published 23 Apr 2013 12:39 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, gallup research, employee recognition and rewards, empowering managers, management tools

Data Is Just Information Unless You Put It to Work

Recognise This! – Gathering data on people management processes does little good unless you use it to ask the right questions and solve the right problems. “Big data” is the latest buzz word entering HR lexicon. I’ve used it myself...

Published 12 Feb 2013 4:25 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, culture management, company values, talent management, company culture, HR, core values, people management, big data, organziation culture, data revolution, nalytics, SAP

3 Reasons 360-Degree Reviews Perform Poorly

Recognise This! – Cumbersome, yet limited, 360-degree reviews tried to solve the problems of the traditional annual performance review but missed the mark. Regular readers know my CEO, Eric Mosley, recently published his latest e-book, The Crowdsourced...

Published 1 Feb 2013 7:05 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, performance appraisal, performance review, 360 degree review, Crowdsourced Performance Review, Marcus Buckingham

Is the Wisdom of Crowds Really All that Wise? (Especially in Performance Management)

Recognise This! – The insights of the many are nearly always more knowledgeable and accurate than the insights of one. The annual performance review is broken. We all know this. I’ve written about the reasons why (too infrequent, given from...

Published 18 Jan 2013 3:56 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, employee recognition and reward, feedback, annual performance review, annual performance appraisal, crowdsource, wisdom of the crowds

Learn How to Crowdsource Performance Management – Webinar Nov. 14

Recognize This! – More feedback, freely given, in a timely and relevant way makes the performance management process more useful for all participants as well as the company as a whole. It’s that time of year again. The time HR Pros, managers...

Published 6 Nov 2012 6:46 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, annual performance review, 360 degree review, annual performance appraisal, crowdsource

Getting People Processes Right Drives the Bottom Line

Recognize This! – Companies that do people processes better also have better financial returns. I’ve posted fairly often on research showing the connection between employee engagement or employee enablement and the bottom line . Thanks to...

Published 27 Sep 2012 2:11 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, leadership, management, mployee recognition and reward, people processes

Going beyond the 360 Review with True Crowdsourced Feedback

Recognize This! – 360 ° reviews are an improvement on traditional annual employee appraisals, but don’t go far enough. Regular readers will know that I am not a fan of the traditional annual performance appraisal , for many reasons, not...

Published 15 Aug 2012 1:44 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, 360 degree review, annual appraisal, annual review, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing performance, employee recognition and rewards

Should We “Out” the Bad Workers, Too?

Recognize This! – We publicly praise the stars. Should we publicly highlight the truly poor performers as well? Regular readers know I’m a very strong proponent of frequent and public (when appropriate and preferred) recognition of star performers...

Published 6 Aug 2012 8:02 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, employee recognition, reward, appraisals, bad employees

How to Change Your Culture

Recognize This! – Ground-up efforts for culture change, led with intention, are most effective for long-term success. The importance of company culture continues to get more and more coverage in the press, in research studies, and an organizational...

Published 2 Aug 2012 9:10 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, performance management, company culture, strategy

WSJ: Peer Performance Reviews Take Off

Recognize This! – The manager-driven, once-a-year employee performance review is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Good riddance. The groundswell against the traditional annual performance review as the primary/sole means of employee feedback...

Published 1 Aug 2012 9:44 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, performance management, performance review, wall street journal, social recognition, crowdsourced feedback, peer reviews

Creating a Culture of Innovation – What to Do (and Not Do)

Recognize This! – A strong culture already exists in your organization. It’s up to you to shape that into the culture you want, not the one that “just happened.” Yesterday I wrote about creating a culture of creativity , as Danny...

Published 1 Aug 2012 5:18 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, company values, company culture, innovation, intuit

2 Steps to Developing & Delivering Creativity on an Olympic Scale

Recognize This! – Creativity is not enough without delivery on the promise. I’ll hazard a guess that 100% of my readers watched the Olympics opening ceremony, at least in part, or read about it, or saw elements of it on news coverage. What...

Published 31 Jul 2012 2:05 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, company culture, rewards and recognition, creativity at work

Cooperation? Competition? Coopertition? What’s the Best Approach for Success?

Recognize This! – The Olympics offer us lessons to apply in the workplace on how to achieve both individual and organization success. How competitive is your workplace? Is it a good type of competition or one that breeds dissension, disharmony and...

Published 30 Jul 2012 9:09 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, performance management, competition, Olympics

Whither Leaders?

Recognize This! – Leaders do more than lead. Managers do more than manage. They must also demonstrate your desired culture and values daily in everything they do. I’ve been thinking about leaders and managers lately, with my thoughts running...

Published 30 Jul 2012 2:07 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, performance management, company values, company culture, trish mcfarlane

4 Tips to Ensure Your Company Survives the Transition to a New Senior Leader

Recognize This! – Build a strong culture based on core values that mean something to individual employees. We’ve all read the stories of the new CEO stepping into a strong company culture. The good CEOs express various concerns around wanting...

Published 25 Jul 2012 4:11 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, performance management, company values, company culture

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