Despite organizations recognizing the importance of teams in their businesses, their performance management systems do not reflect their importance, much to the detriment of overall performance.
Category: In our humble opinion
Sizing Them Up: Sales Performance, Behaviors, Assessments
Frank Cespedes, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, argues that while using behavioral assessments can be beneficial, there are three key things that must be considered.
We must not measure for measuring’s sake
Sandy Gould examines the dangers of conducting too much performance measurement now that we are moving into a hybrid working environment where technology is likely to be more widely used.
The Soft Skills CV
Paul Vance outlines how crucial soft skills are to a candidate’s CV, and what the benefits of emphasising them are.
We are all ambiverts now
Adaptive management styles can suit the different behavioural traits of team members, but they are not without their costs.
What next for the broken appraisal system?
The broken traditional appraisal system, the merits of peer-to-peer and real-time feedback and future opportunities for companies to embrace team-to-team performance evaluations.
When ‘We’ comes before ‘Me’
Roger Schwarz explains when to give feedback one-on-one and when to give it in a team.
COVID-19, remote working and UK productivity
Simon French examines the relationship between COVID-19 and remote working on productivity.
Effective leadership in unprecedented times
Christoph von Toggenburg explains why kindness and empowerment are the key to creating ‘dream teams’.
Disciplined diversity of thinking: five years and five insights
The challenge with cognitive diversity is not a belief in its efficacy, but uncertainty about how to operationalise it in practice.