Tag: Conversations

August 18, 2022

What happens when politics, sex, race, religion and other polarizing topics come up in conversations among co-workers? SHRM Chief Knowledge Officer Alexander Alonso, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP, has some unexpected answers. In his new book, Talking Taboo: Making the Most of Polarizing […]

February 25, 2022

A co-worker, who I generally like, would stop at my desk once daily to chat for a few minutes. Recently, they have been dropping by more frequently and it is beginning to disrupt my work. How can I let them […]

February 18, 2020

Making superficial adjustments to performance management (PM) perpetuates a 20th-century system that continues to disappoint employees, managers, organizational leadership, and HR. If you’re like me, you’ve learned that the continual tweaking of ratings, forms, and competencies falls short of producing […]

December 20, 2019

Gartner research shows that a whopping 92% of organizations have formal performance reviews and 65% of organizations provide formal performance feedback, and yet performance management remains a largely unsatisfactory experience — for both employees and managers. “Only 17% of respondents […]

October 23, 2019

When it comes to sexual harassment training, whether you succeed has a lot to do with how you look at it. If you are just trying to be compliant with employment laws, then it might seem simple. If you are […]

March 11, 2019

8 Tips for Moving to the Continuous Performance Management Model Making superficial adjustments to performance management (PM) perpetuates a 20th-century system that continues to disappoint employees, managers, organizational leadership, and HR. If you’re like me, you’ve learned that the continual […]

February 11, 2019

Companies today are increasingly aware that the traditional annual performance review is ineffective when it comes to actually increasing employee performance. In fact, just 12% of respondents to a Deloitte survey indicated that this process was highly effective in driving […]

March 23, 2018

Businesses with engaged employees perform better. In fact, companies that invest in employee engagement perform as much as 202 percent better than companies with low engagement. I found that tidbit in an article by Recruitment Advisor that says it’s the […]