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Category Archives: Perf Management
Why do we work – When individuals care about careers
In my last post on when organizations care about careers, I talked about various things an organization can do in order to utilize their employees effectively and in the process, help employees realize their career goals. However, not all companies … Continue reading
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Tagged Career Management, career planning, performance management
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Why do we work – career stages and attributes
In my previous post on ‘Why do we work‘, I talked about 4 levels of employees from the perspective of career and motivational stages: Entry Level Employees, Senior employees/frontline managers, Middle Managers, and executives. They differ in terms of how … Continue reading
Being Effective at workplace – Taking Initiatives
This post is a part of the series of posts I am doing on Being Effective at workplace. Taking initiative is about picking up organizational challenges to solve without being asked and delivering results. Taking initiative is a well-known way … Continue reading
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Tagged Effectiveness, High performance, taking initiatives
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Effective 1-1s – Fostering trust and creating no-harm zone
Effective 1-1 is the cornerstone of a successful management career, and acquiring necessary competencies in order to have a great 1-1 with your reports is a great career enhancement technique. I have referred to this topic many times in my … Continue reading
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Tagged Career Development, performance management, Tips and Techniques
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How do you evaluate your performance?
Everyone I have met at workplace wants to make sure they are being evaluated fairly and are given right indications about the result of their evaluations. Most of the time, they rely on the process of evaluation that organization has … Continue reading
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Personality Style or Weakness – you are the judge
One of the persons reporting to me mentioned he has bad memory and so he cannot quickly respond to out-of-context questions. He further inferred from this that this weakness will stop him from doing his job effectively. After more discussion, … Continue reading
High-performance teams – Do they need leaders?
Recently I attended a training which highlighted some of the differences between team and workgroups. The discussion started with the team definition. The definition used was the one from ‘Wisdom of Teams‘ book: A team is a small number of … Continue reading
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Performance Review – Weaving personal goals into organizational ones
Often times, setting goals for next year’s performance review takes into account only organizational goals set by the manager for the employee. This misses an opportunity to set the goals in a way that could benefit the employee’s career growth … Continue reading
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What do leaders/managers give to organizations?
This is performance review time, and naturally I am thinking about what I have done over the past year as a leader/manager to warrant any reward. It is always hard to figure this out, because all the work is done … Continue reading
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Tagged leaders, managers, performance management
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Managing Performance
See my previous post for background on this series of posts. The question we are attempting to answer is: How does someone (in this case, my friend Ravi who has 9 direct reports) set performance objectives for teams and individuals … Continue reading
