Michael Carter and I were chatting this morning about conversations in the workplace and we came around to the topic of performance review as a series of conversations. This is how I prefer to conduct performance reviews. For managers and supervisors Pre-interview questionnaires? Bin them. Competency models? Bin them too. Forms to fill out during [...]
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In just four hours of concentrated work I cleared and processed four in-trays, one bookshelf, two desks, the floor, the top of three filing cabinets and a table. The only casualties were a cheap office shredder and a Dymo labeller tape. I tell a lie. The third casualty was stress and confusion. This morning the accounts [...]
Last Thursday was one of those days. Lots of stuff coming at me and some critical deadlines which had be be met before I was able to take Friday off work. Despite this I left Thursday in control knowing what had to be done was done and comfortable that what I hadn’t yet got to [...]
