I was recently asked if it was possible to move away from ratings, “mid year” and/or “annual” performance reviews and when things are...

It should come as no surprise that about 80% of Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) fail to achieve any improvement in performance. If...

“How many of us are the person we are today because of our performance appraisal?”  asks Ken Miller. In his book “We Don’t Make Widgets”...

The evidence is clear that the process of performance management is costly in terms of time and effort and adds little, if any value. ...

Last Christmas I wrote a blog titled “What do Performance Reviews and Santa Claus have in Common?” That blog highlighted how both: Only...

Many years ago I assisted the owner of a small suburban legal firm manage a difficult employment situation: The employee in question was,...

According to Forbes.com, Europe’s biggest software maker, SAP, is the latest global company to have decided its annual review process was...

I was recently at a presentation delivered by an Employment Lawyer who recommended a discipline process to use when misconduct occurs. ...

The lead story in July/August 2015 Harvard Business Review was titled “It’s time to blow up HR and build something new”. Some evidence...

While performance reviews are universally unpopular with employees and managers, a new study by CEB suggests that in getting rid of...

I recently read a 2004 article by Lyle Potgieter, Head of PeopleStreme Human Capital titled “Trends in Performance Management”.  His...

Let’s focus specifically on the difficult conversation a manager has to have regarding poor performance.  If you choose to start with...

For convenience in this blog I will refer to everyone from a CEO to the cleaner as ‘an employee’ when referring to a poor performer....

In response to Carolyn Rance’s article “Star Treatment”, I am continually amazed that HR practitioners continue to support performance...

I’ll address the question by sharing a case study, a colleague’s response, then looking at what I think is the real problem before...

There are a surprising number of similarities between Performance Reviews and Santa coming to town: Both only occur once a year* Santa...

I have been working with two organisation recently both experiencing the same problem. They use Performance Appraisal Forms with the...

In the July 2015 issue of HRMonthly I was asked to argue a case that performance reviews can add value. I stated by saying that if I was...

There is no doubt Social Media is here to stay or that it affects workplace issues. As witnessed in the recent case in the UK where a...

I’ve spoken before about how the age-old problems with performance management have refused to go away for the past 30 years and will...