By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Amy Edmondson February 09, 2024 Among the many variables that determine your career success, the ability to perform well in front of others, particularly critical stakeholders (bosses, clients, potential employers, or teachers) interested in evaluating your potential, cannot be underestimated. So much so, that much of the difference between average … Continue reading Obsessing about performance can hinder your success
By Julia Herbst September 24, 2023 Most of us are used to the annual (or semi-annual) cadence of performance reviews. You sit down with your boss and go over what you’re doing well, discuss any weaknesses, and agree on your goals for the upcoming year. At best, it can be a good chance to … Continue reading Are performance reviews useful?
By Shalene Gupta April 12, 2023 There’s work, and then there’s the performance of work—but how much time do employees spend on the latter? People analytics firm Visier surveyed 1,000 full-time employees to understand how much time people spend on “performative work”: work that isn’t necessary but is done to appear visible. Here’s what they found. … Continue reading Is your job ‘performative’? Why workers can’t quit the timeless art of looking busy
Performance Media Shops Reorganize C-Suites, Become More Strategically Focused by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, June 16, 2022 It may seem like a coincidence that two major performance media agencies announced strategic reorganizations this morning, but I think it speaks to the fact that performance is more than just moving needles, and is becoming much more integrated … Continue reading Performance Media Shops Reorganize C-Suites, Become More Strategically Focused
By Amy Leschke-Kahle May 30, 2022 The pandemic offered people many lessons. We learned a lot during the pandemic. We learned that employees and their managers can work from different locations and still get work done. We learned many employees, even though they often don’t get rewarded with the highest salaries, are willing … Continue reading POV: Why we should retire traditional performance reviews
Riley Steinbach August 31, 2021 Many executives are starting to argue that the annual performance reviews are outdated and no longer useful and even 90% of HR professionals say that they are inaccurate at assessing employee’s performance. Although performance reviews should not be accompanied by bi-annual and quarter performance reviews, and most importantly continuous feedback, … Continue reading Key Topics to Cover in Performance Reviews
Julie Winkle Giulioni December 3, 2020 Year-end reviews for employees are challenging – even for the most skillful of leaders. The reasons are varied. For instance, the way they’re scheduled in a concentrated fashion forces those with many direct reports to spend weeks on end planning and conducting non-stop conversations. The way they’re structured favors … Continue reading How to Navigate Year-End Reviews for Employees
Predicting Creative Performance Moves Campaigns Into 2021 by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, November 20, 2020 What if marketers could predict the outcome of their creative in advertisements long before a campaign begins? Pattern89 believes it can by analyzing about 200 billion data points, across Facebook and Instagram, along with more than 49,000 dimensions per piece based … Continue reading Predicting Creative Performance Moves Campaigns Into 2021
Dave Brock — December 4, 2019 Follow @davidabrock I’m an unabashed fan of Shane Parrish and the Farnam Street Blog. I study everything they publish, listen to every podcast, read every article and book they reference. It is the single smartest site I have ever found, I encourage everyone to visit and learn on a … Continue reading How Performance Reviews Can Kill Organizational Culture
Tamra Chandler — November 15, 2019 This is my fourth blog in this series (you can find the first three on this topic here: blog one, blog two, and blog three). Let’s review. It’s past time to fix feedback and restore to its rightful place as a powerful and valuable tool for good. We must … Continue reading This Isn’t Feedback: A Critique of the Annual Review
