Performance Management: More Than a Form

December 2nd, 2015

A version of this article was originally prepared by TPO for one of its clients, an industry educational foundation.

Performance management can be a powerful tool for your business.  A manager can establish goals, share feedback, and improve performance through discussions with employees.  If those performance management discussions are conducted in a way that builds a […]

Performance Management – The Basics

November 18th, 2015

A version of this article was originally prepared by TPO for one of its clients, an industry educational foundation. 

Performance management may just be the most widely researched and talked about human resource management topic. Yet, businesses large and small struggle mightily with performance management systems that deliver value – produce business results. A recent Society […]

Will We Look Back at 2015 as the Year Annual Performance Reviews Died?

October 7th, 2015

It’s been hard not to notice this year’s flurry of articles (several listed at the bottom of this post) about Accenture, Deloitte and other influential companies substantially reinventing or even ditching traditional performance reviews.

To that, TPO says, ever so politely, “What took you so long?”

As I wrote in The Performance Review: Another “Form” of Insanity, […]

The Performance Review: Another “Form” of Insanity

September 23rd, 2015

Over and over, we talk to organizations that struggle for years with employee performance, then go through several cycles of changing the performance review process or form—or both—only to find that their struggles are continuing or even worsening. Here I’ll invoke the tried and true definition of insanity, which is to repeatedly continue the same […]