Managers have a formal way of evaluating an employee’s work — the performance review. Most people working in cubes don’t have the same formal option to evaluate their manager, but that doesn’t mean employees are not rating managers. Employees do that all the time. You can have twenty-seven ways in an article like this one… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Performance Reviews
Killer SMART Goals for the Cubicle Warrior Released
I’m very excited to share with you a new set of tools to help your career. The Killer SMART Goal e-book Killer SMART Goals for the Cubicle Warrior is a suite of tools for working with SMART Goals with your manager. The suite includes a 32-page e-book on SMART Goals — the definitions, the traps… Continue Reading
The easy way to boost job performance
We want to have great job performance because performance leads to good performance reviews. Yet, we spend our time doing our work only to find that the work we did wasn’t right. It didn’t “hit the mark” and we ended up doing the work all over again. All this rework increases our stress levels and… Continue Reading
Do you get performance review feedback during the year?
The management tenet is this: there should be no surprises when the performance review comes. No surprises on the performance review for either the manager or the employee. The reason? Because there is enough communication between the employee and their manager, you should know what will show up on your performance review all the time…. Continue Reading
Why SMART goals fail high performers
When it comes to goals, SMART goals are the typical choice for businesses. It makes sense, too, because the SMART goal methodology gives a way to ensure the goals are well constructed. But, a well-constructed SMART goal doesn’t equal employee engagement, especially high performing Cubicle Warriors. Instead, SMART goals fail high performers in three ways:… Continue Reading
Can management do SMART Goals?
Yesterday, I did a media interview on the subject of “Better SMART Goals mean better management.” And the part about the SMART Goals is true: if management embraces making the SMART goal individual and not team, measurable to the individual and not just to the department level, and determines goal attainment levels for performance review… Continue Reading
3 reasons recessions are great for careers
There is gloom and doom about this recession, no doubt about it. There is also understandable hardship, layoffs and destruction going on that requires our help to those affected. But recessions are career builders. Here’s three reasons. Recessions force you to make hard choices When the world is happy and all is good, it doesn’t… Continue Reading
The Performance Review Secret
Your performance review has a big secret: your salary and bonus are determined before writing your performance review. There’s a good reason performance reviews are written after the rating is submitted. It is because your manager doesn’t know your final rating until after the completion of the budget for salaries and bonuses. The early ratings… Continue Reading
Your manager’s performance review
It is the end of the year and, for most employees, time for the dreaded performance review. While most of us are focused on our review, how many of you do a formal review of your manager? Not for publication, of course. Instead, how good has your manager been for your work, job and career?… Continue Reading
