by Diana Tapp | Sep 22, 2020 | blog
As CEO’s in competitive industries you know you can’t afford to accept underperformance. But what do you do about any employee who isn’t playing their A-game? How do you approach them and help turn around their problematic behaviour? And how long do...
by Diana Tapp | Dec 9, 2019 | blog
Driving performance is NOT about the annual Performance Review. In fact, companies like Microsoft, Adobe and Accenture are choosing to abandon traditional performance management methods. Adobe calculated that the annual performance reviews required 80,000 hours of...
by Diana Tapp | Nov 30, 2018 | blog
“It almost doesn’t matter WHAT you know. It’s what you can DO with whatever you know or can acquire and actually accomplish that’s important” ANDY GROVE – Former Intel CEO We can measure and monitor so much in business now. But how much of it REALLY makes a...
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....