There’s no doubt that it’s harder than ever to keep a business afloat in these lean times that we live in. However, a report like this should be a wake up call to any CEO or top level manager to head on back down to the floor and talk to the workforce. If there are any grumblings or ripples of dissent, and you can bet your bottom dollar there will be, hiding behind your desk and sticking your head in the sand like an ostrich isn’t going to keep your company out of that shocking 75% bracket.
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When pseudo community fails to work, and there is no progression, the members start to vent their mutual disagreements and differences. The group descends into chaos. It may not sound it, but this is a good thing. People realise that they can no longer ignore their differences. Chaos may look counterproductive but it’s the first genuine step towards reaching community.
It’s all well and good telling your employer that you have an O’level in computer studies, but that doesn’t hold much water if you learnt on a Sinclair Spectrum back in 1986.
IBM is finding ways to tackle global issues using feedback. Our own issues may not be global, but you can bet your bottom dollar that the benefits and the insight acquired through 360-degree feedback will be immeasurable.
Unfortunately, having been given the task of implementing the assessment and then the feedback session itself, John’s lack of understanding on the process has given him a very negative viewpoint towards it. This will inevitably filter down through the ranks to the team members who are taking part in the appraisal itself.
As the US Military, Ford and 79% of the Fortune 100 companies understand, to be effective at anything, we have to find a way to get constructive feedback. In the case of the military, Santos is used to work out the best way to equip soldiers for battle. In the work environment, 360-degree feedback is a powerful tool for creating awareness of an individual’s strengths and development areas, by measuring performance against a range of key criteria.
The nightmare of every employee engagement officer is the water cooler toxic.
Alchemy for Managers Weekly Tip – guest post from Paul Matthews. We all have the experience of applying a solution to a problem, and the problem gets worse.With hindsight we look back, and realise that we came up with a solution without properly understanding the cause of the problem. An example is a team that [...]
Today gave us another perfect illustration of why government funding for training and development or for redundancy support doesn’t work. It should. But it fundamentally doesn’t. We had two separate encounters which illustrated so perfectly the total lack of joined up thinking that has created a broken system. Firstly, we investigated the Response to Redundancy [...]
We recently posted about giving and receiving feedback and how to do that effectively, you can see giving feedback here and receiving feedback here as a reminder. The next step is to make sure everyone gets the most out of the process. So here’s a quick list you may want to give to recipients – [...]