by Diana Tapp | Mar 5, 2019 | blog
Great leaders are great learners. They would learn so much from honest feedback from their staff – if only staff would give it! Getting and learning from feedback isn’t always easy, but it’s necessary if you want to be the best leader. Most staff...
by Diana Tapp | Feb 18, 2019 | blog
People tend to be great at the easy 80% of their conversations. These are the conversations where you deliver ‘good news’ to your team, your manager or your customers or where you are responding to positive feedback. Most of us, however, are NOT great at...
by Diana Tapp | Nov 22, 2018 | blog
Much has been written about Performance Reviews in the last few years. Most of it has been negative. These systems were introduced by forward-thinking companies in the 1980s. They were designed to measure people’s performance against criteria rather than their...
by Diana Tapp | Nov 19, 2018 | blog
It’s performance review season, and you know the drill. Fill in those long, tedious performance documents, drag each of your direct reports into a conference room for a one-on-one, hand them the performance document, and then start the same, tired conversation....