by Diana Tapp | Apr 29, 2022 | blog
Telling would be much quicker and easier but it just doesn’t work anymore! Very few people, from Gen Y to the Baby Boomers, like to simply be told what to do. They expect to know WHY they are being asked to do a particular task or to be included in making the...
by Diana Tapp | Mar 22, 2022 | blog
So often, 1:1 meetings are considered a complete waste of time by both the manager and their direct report. Generally, they have no structure or purpose; they are just a ‘quick catch up’ or a ‘chat’. With so much pressure on our time,...
by Diana Tapp | Feb 15, 2022 | blog
Should you ask employees to assess their performance in preparation for their annual performance review? There are several myths around performance reviews. One of them is self-assessment. We expect that our direct reports will assess themselves first. Then as the...
by Diana Tapp | Feb 7, 2022 | blog
Are you frustrated by how long Performance Reviews take, but how little they achieve? There are 4 steps to turning Performance Reviews from a box-ticking exercise you ‘just have to do’ into important conversations that actually lift individual and therefore business...
by Diana Tapp | Dec 14, 2021 | blog
In a year when I have lost both my beautiful parents (and without being able to be with them or at their funerals because of lockdown), when we have been tested with 120 days of lockdown (four walls and two people are certainly not a big enough real world for me) and...