by Ira Wolfe | Oct 13, 2014 | Employee Performance Management, Leadership
Recruiting and retaining talent is the highest priority in many companies. Discovering employee strengths is a popular strategy. Why wouldn’t management want to know if a candidate or employee had “the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance in a...
by Ira Wolfe | Oct 9, 2014 | Employee Motivation, Employee Performance Management
We have all seen them. We might have even made fun of them. They “hover” over their kids, protecting them from the many horrible harsh realities of life – like losing a baseball game, getting a “C” for average work, or even being disciplined by a teacher or boss for...
by Ira Wolfe | Oct 7, 2014 | Employee Performance Management
Shhh! Do you hear those painful cries and sighs emanating from behind company walls? Those aren’t from the goblins and witches but employees and managers. The reason: It’s annual performance review time! As if the mere mention performance reviews isn’t enough to set...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 27, 2014 | Employee Performance Management, Hiring Process
If you believe that past performance is a good predictor of future success, think again. Recent research has all but debunked the popular hiring model suggesting that success in the past can be replicated in the future based on innate talent (personality tests,...
by Ira Wolfe | Jun 10, 2014 | Employee Motivation, Employee Performance Management
We often think about manners as either good or bad etiquette. You know – the Emily Post sort of stuff. But that is barely scratching the surface when it comes to evaluating employee performance. A good place to start is with a definition of etiquette. Etiquette...
by Ira Wolfe | May 20, 2014 | Employee Performance Management
The annual performance review has a big bulls-eye on it. Nearly every day I receive an alert, newsletter, or magazine criticizing and critiquing its ineffectiveness. Despite the near unanimous agreement on the importance of giving employee’s feedback, the...
