by Ira Wolfe | Feb 17, 2014 | Employee Performance Management
Managers and employees are buzzing about the annual performance review. Unfortunately the anticipation isn’t necessarily positive. Let’s be honest. The review meeting has become little more than a song-and-dance ritual. If it wasn’t for HR’s mandate that every...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 16, 2014 | Employee Performance Management
The termination and subsequent replacement of any employee is painful. And the retention of an under-performing manager, especially a senior manager, is like self-inflicting a wound. There is never a good time and it is always more expensive. Everything we do anymore...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 15, 2014 | Employee Performance Management, Leadership
It’s well documented that a manager has more impact upon the retention of an employee than any other individual or any benefits has within an organization. In fact, survey after survey confirms that employees leave more jobs due to the ineffectiveness of a...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 12, 2014 | Employee Performance Management
Former employees give a lot of reasons for quitting. Unfortunately one thing nearly always stands out: a poor relationship with his or her immediate supervisor. Frontline supervisors, often chosen for their productivity or longevity rather than management skills, lack...
by Ira Wolfe | Dec 8, 2013 | Employee Performance Management
The Dual Scale performance appraisal is rarely used but offers a significant improvement to single scale employee evaluation. Single-Scale performance appraisals can lead to misinterpretation of feedback to employees. They offer a look at one “gap.” For example,...
by Ira Wolfe | Oct 3, 2013 | Employee Performance Management
Call them performance appraisals, employee reviews, or annual evaluations … the truth is that most employees dread receiving them almost as much as managers hate giving them. That fact is, the performance management system in most organizations is broken. Many...
