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 | 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...
by Ira Wolfe | Mar 22, 2014 | Employee Performance Management
Annual performance reviews are under attack. Some experts even boast that employee performance appraisals are dead. But whether you support them or abhor them, one thing seems to gather common ground – the performance review process needs to be improved. Many...
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...
