April 06, 2012

I am so honoured to be presenting a workshop as part of the Advancing Women in Business Series, sponsored by Vancity, Raised Eyebrow, Hollyhock and UBC’s Sauder School of  Business.  I’ll be speaking about Talent Management, offering small business entrepreneurs tips and techniques to hire, retain and develop their staff. Here is more information about all the workshops: http://www.womensconference.ca/

The traditional performance review process is intended to provide an objective evaluation of the employee’s work and how they can do better.  But that’s not most people’s experience.  More often that not, these reviews are one-sided, subjective, political and detrimental to the manager-employee relationship. Or else they are just useless, pro-forma exercises that stay safe.  This article introduces a new and improved paradigm: Collaborative performance “previews” followed by continuous conversations  — managers and employees are reciprocally accountable for goals being met and performance being developed.  

June 01, 2011

Karen Kelloway wrote a great book on making a career change.  Here she highlights how a re-evaluation of your situation and career goals can help you through a potentially challenging process: Name it, reframe it, get into alignment, create a career change strategy and then fill the gaps. These steps are very similar to what leaders should do in large-scale organizational change initiatives.

April 24, 2011

Tammy Erickson has spent alot of time with members of Generation X.   In this article she offers her ideas as to why Gen X leaders will use their realism and values-oriented sensibilities  to create more humane organizational cultures. Baby boomers have a hell of a time managing this generation because they don’t spend the time learning about the values X’ers espouse.  Life would be so much easier if they read Tammy Erickson!

April 15, 2011

Daniel Pink writes about the power of performance feedback – especially when you are working with Millenials. This generation is used to immediate feedback from their technology, so it’s time they get it from their managers! Workplaces need to change their performance review processes to meet the  communication needs of their staff. Read more here.

April 01, 2011

Daniel Pink writes about the power of performance feedback – especially when you are working with Millenials. This generation is used to immediate feedback from their technology, so it’s time they get it from their managers! Workplaces need to change their performance review processes to meet the communication needs of their staff. As the author says: Do it yourself, do it through peers and do it with software.  Read more here.

March 13, 2011

When you are bringing in your successor, be strategic in managing the transition for both of you.  Find out here the key steps for good preparation and implementation.

March 06, 2011

Bill Taylor, the co-founder of Fast Company magazine writes about recruitment here. Finding the best talent for your organization requires hiring processes that focus on behaviors and attitudes of prospective employees.  People can learn job skills easily enough,  but the quality of their character is what makes the difference in their success.

Read about it.

March 02, 2011

For hiring managers and job seekers alike, what you should know to be strategic and successful in the talent management game of 2011.

Read more here.