What Makes Them Different? De Waal’s research identified 35 characteristics that are common in all high performing organizations. They are almost all about people. The 35 characteristics fit into 5 categories: Quality of management Quality of people Openness and...
The Origins of Performance Appraisal Cappelli and Tavis include a short history of performance appraisal in their article. A kind of performance management through the ages. And it is ages. They traced the appraisal process back to the WWII US military, where it was...
The Story So Far Our group meets monthly and consists of the senior HR people in Investors in People accredited organizations. In our previous meeting, we asked ourselves “What is fundamentally wrong with performance management?” The question was inspired by an HBR...
What Do We Mean by Fixed and Growth Mindsets? Despite how it sounds, describing someone as having a fixed mindset, doesn’t mean they are a stubborn individual who dogmatically insists on one way of thinking, and is totally unprepared to change whatever the...
Driven by Business Needs One could argue that the more concerned we become about meeting the needs of our people, the more flexible we become. Roland Davies from the British Council in Singapore spoke recently about leadership and diversity at a Philippines Civil...
