photo credit: CodeFin Performance reviews are those things that happen at the end of the year, right? So, not much to worry about until much later. Time to sit back and relax a bit, easing into the new year. Cubicle Warriors, though, know that starting the year off right means the probability of ending the… Continue Reading
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How 4 events in the 4th quarter impact your career
photo credit: James Young Art Your career has a harsh teacher. During the fourth quarter of the year, four events happen that impact your job, salary, promotability, and ability to continue your good job. The fourth quarter is usually one of the busiest for managers — and that is what impacts your job. Let’s take… Continue Reading
3 dangers from unclear goals
photo credit: CodeFin SMART Goals are foundational for all clear and unambiguous goals. If constructed correctly — and if they represent your work and not something driven by corporate that doesn’t care about your work. In other words, even though goals may look SMART, they are not. When your business goals are unclear, your chances… Continue Reading
Ignore job security for your own survival
photo credit: Troy Holden Job security is highly overrated. Yet, job security is the number one desire for employees according to a recent study. The reasons job security is overrated are pretty straightforward. Job security forces you to make poor career choices The employer makes decisions based on meeting the business goals. You adapt. The… Continue Reading
How SMART are your goals right now?
Riverside Park South, Memorial Day weekend 2010 – 36 by Ed Yourdon Psst…the end of June — one half of the year — is sneaking up on you. When is the last time you went into your desk drawer or headed over to your Excel spreadsheet and checked out your goals? You remember your goals,… Continue Reading
Performance reviews are about spreadsheets, not judgments
The whiteboard by r h Performance reviews used to require judgments about the performance of managers and employees. Today, however, much of the judgment has been removed through the “tyranny of the explicit,” where some performance trait is shown via a number or statistic and therefore must be accurate and true. The Cognitive Edge, in… Continue Reading
Is HR Dead?
In the span of my career, so far, I’ve always had this ambivalent attitude towards the people that work in HR departments. Not their professionalism, though some didn’t have much of it (and neither do some people in every department in a company…). Not their work ethic as many worked long hours. Not their ability… Continue Reading
SMART Goals: Your first quarter update
Mathematical 42 by Iain Purdie SMART Goals are foundational for many performance reviews. Yet too many of us, managers included, carefully work through building our SMART Goals, making sure they hit all the criteria, start off working to complete them…and then forget them and work with the latest and the loudest. That can kill your… Continue Reading
3 career lessons from 2011
photo credit: TC Morgan Photography Pundits will have their best and worst of 2011 articles out there. The best and worst needs noting, of course, but, to me, neither of them are actionable. Instead, I like to look at the experiences we’ve had over the year and then determine what lessons we can learn from… Continue Reading