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I found this to be a thought provoking article which seems to perfectly illustrate everything that can go bad with a performance review. I liked the practical approach to encourage open relationship which can provide the honest feedback we each need to address our self-improvement barriers.

Short clip on having a successful succession planning...which starts early.

It is about being proactive and planning before the need arises. Often, employees leave and then the organization is left trying to figure out how to replace a critical role because there is no one identified to succeed the employee who left.

Correct...I have seen that to many times.

Although this video contains the word adolescent in the title the speaker makes a case for cognitive development into the thirties which is really interesting as we deal with younger workers and trying to identify potential.

I agree, good information on younger employees and indentify how they can contribute more fully to an organization.

Interesting and helpful having teenager in the house but great insight into working with "younger" employees.

As I read this I was drawn to section on cognitive constructs. I found it very interesting and the openness of which the author references the need for future research makes me wonder if we are getting closer to understanding the cognitive sciences or just beginning to grasp how big this issue could be.

Performance management is the process of creating a work environment or setting in which people are enabled to perform to the best of their abilities. Performance management is a whole work system that begins when a job is defined as needed. It ends when an employee leaves your organization.

"Don't scrap it, Fix it!"

Good article. I found many of these same alternatives in other reference material. And the author is correct on how many annual reviews become less productive than the daily interaction. We practice month one-on-ones at Amazon and often those feel like scripted messes instead of productive interactions, I find more practical advise in review the days problems like we had to after Saturday and the programming issue which impeded my workers for 45 minutes until an engineer could reset the robotic delivery field. Anyway, I agree that major changes need to happen before performance reviews become anywhere near as constructive as the type of conversation I had with my boss yesterday.

To summarize Walt's leadership lesson: In order to "know what the people want," get out there, be willing to listen, and then institutionalize learning and continuous improvement on behalf of your customers.

I love this - but I worry customer service is losing it's appeal. Now a days many large companies feel if they have a strong product customer service is less than important. I immediately think about Walmart. I rarely have a good customer service experience at Walmart - but that has not stopped me from buying products there....

I agree on the customer service part...I also feel a lot of companies are moving towards "self service" which brings back to less customer service.

Forbes article

Good article, nice to see the 7 C's and an observation point from a leadership level owning up to be a contributing factor for new employee success rate.

There it is again with that compatible non-sense. That is why organizations get jammed up in lawsuits, and lose huge sums of money. Its a whole new generation of employers thinking that they should hire based on "Cultural matches" which are made up in the first place. That is a preference, and it cannot be articulated on the bench in front of a jury of 12. If you can't defend it, then don't make it a core competency or requirement. Make it a subfield, or a preference.

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Good reminder not to stereotype Gen Y, or any other group. The article shared this phrase "This isn't entitlement - it's being personally accountable for your own career," which I think many people leap to the conclusion that Gen Y's are not willing to work for what they get. It is not true at all.

I agree, good information on the younger folks in the workforce and their perspective.

On the SHRM website they have great information for all sorts of HR topics. Click on the "download your free report" as this is a great tool for onboarding. They discuss the Four C's (Compliance, Clarification, Culture, Connection).

The SHRM website is a great website to visit on a lot of HR related topics. I would recommend it as a useful website.

Looks like we all like this website. Solid practical advice given in the article.

The articles discusses the benefits gained from a strong onboarding process. More importantly, it addresses that onboarding is not successful when it is regarded as a one or two day process. It is ongoing processes for several months.