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10 Things Millennials Might Say at Their Performance Reviews

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Many Millennials were raised during the Self Esteem Movement. There was no second place in their parents’ eyes. Everyone’s a winner.
Now those Millennials are getting performance reviews. Here’s 10 Things Millennials Might Say at Their Performance Reviews*:

You mean I don’t get a trophy just for participating?

My parents won’t let you give me anything but an [...]

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Doing What You Say You’ll Do Has Never Gone Out of Style

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

We got two backbreaking snows in Philadelphia within five days. While I was in Chicago on Tuesday morning in the middle of a huge snowstorm, I texted my wife: “See if you can hire someone to do our driveway.”
Our backs were sore from digging out the two feet of snow we got over the weekend. [...]

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Need More Proof That Bad Performance Management Processes Wreck Companies?

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Read the first five paragraphs of After Bankruptcy, G.M. Struggles to Shed a Legendary Bureaucracy. Weep if, like many companies, your performance management “system” is a joke.
If you’re over-engineering your performance review process, do the right thing and stop. Today.
Want to play in the big leagues? Make performance management make sense. Help your company make [...]

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Seriously, If You Have Ever Used a Canned Performance Appraisal You Should Be Fired

Monday, August 31st, 2009

SHRM’s leadership shines bright again with this offering of the week at the SHRM Bookstore: Ready-To-Use Performance Appraisals.
I can’t make this stuff up, folks.
If you’re a manager, there’s nothing more important than managing. That means giving guidance. It means telling people what you know. It means hiring people who are smarter and more talented [...]

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QOTD: Do You Look Forward to Your Annual Performance Review?

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I’m curious: Is there anyone out there who looks forward to their annual performance reviews? Let’s hear it. And if you detest annual performance reviews, let’s hear that too.