Here’s why the annual review needs an overhaul
While the format and tone may have changed over the years, the annual review really needs an overhaul.
Jagged Lines and Gordian Knots Managing and Integrating Donor-Funded Technical Assistance
Performance improvement approaches from the commercial sphere are being adopted in the very different world of international aid support for transitioning societies. The challenges of applying these methodologies to this complex and foreign arena require special consideration for success.
Practicing Masterful Performance Technology
Senior performance technologists often take on real societal challenges, with enormous multilevel needs and minuscule funding. Front-end assessment is conducted under demanding time frames with small teams. Success requires a melding of science and art.
Digital Transformation and Technological Debt
I prefer to talk about a technological debt rather than a gap to be filled, because the later we take action, the higher the interest payable to recover the accumulated gap will be.
Performance Assessment & Analysis
This is the Forward extracted from the book Performance Assessment & Analysis discussing benefits of using the method to target improved performance in institutions.
Should coworkers know each other’s salary?
There is a common misconception in discussions around transparency that all employees should know what others earn. This is unquestionably the wrong thing to do, as a person’s salary should be kept private.
Will automation take away all our jobs? Anatomy of a questionable analysis
One of the most pressing questions that arises today is whether technological development will take our work away from us. It is difficult, if not impossible, to answer with certainty. Analysts and scholars try to understand and make understandable how the world of work is evolving and what future awaits us.
If an Indonesian Volcano Hadn’t Erupted, Frankenstein Wouldn’t Have Been Created
Your organization is a complex adaptive system. Whether you are an entry level employee, the CEO, or anything in between, you cannot predict everything that will happen in your system when you make changes.
Evaluation … Why all the attention?
Evaluating results and impact has received a great deal of attention lately, particularly as we move into a VUCA world against the backdrop of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
In the past, most measurement and evaluation theories and methodologies were extremely complex.
Improving Performance Isn’t Complicated
A common approach to solving a performance issue (albeit highly generalized here) is to analyze the situation, diagnose the underlying problem, develop and implement an effective solution to the problem, and track improvement progress.
Gazing into a murky crystal ball. Revisited
The nature of the associate and workspace is changing and changeable, and this requires us to build the bridges between the current what is and the desired what should be.
Solution implementation… Project and change management by any other name!
In our quest to improve performance and change productivity we are sometimes overwhelmed with the pressure of speed of delivery, speed to market, speed to satisfy clients’ needs, speed to execute to earn credibility and build relationships.
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