Anonymised Feedback: Empowering employees to use their voice safely by withholding identity 02 March 2018 David-Perks Agile Performance Management, Product Announcements (1) Recent revelations about poor leadership behaviour powered by the #metoo movement are highlighting that despite policies, procedures and culture, employees still do not feel totally safe to share their observations, concerns and stories of unacceptable or downright abusive treatment without fear of reprisal. What can be done to change this? [More]
Real time performance management sometimes needs a nudge 14 December 2017 David-Perks Product Announcements (0) Observing and commenting on other people's performance in real time is a very hard habit to form.We've made it easier with the announcement of these new features and the retirement of our first attempt to solve the problem. [More]
Gender bias in the language of performance review and feedback 28 November 2017 David-Perks Agile Performance Management (0) A study of gender bias in the language used in performance reviews of women compared to performance reviews of men based upon over 750 real time feedback interactions finds that there is indeed a marked difference in the nature of feedback provided. [More]
The one place where diversity is not what you should be aiming for 11 October 2017 David-Perks Agile Performance Management (0) Diversity is a hot topic around the boardroom table at the moment, Should there be quotas for female leaders, what about the gender pay gap, how can we do the right thing by our minorities, and do we have the diversity of thought to drive innovation? These are all good questions for management to spend time on, but in one key area diversity is to the detriment of culture and until that area is tackled the rest may not matter. [More]
Stereotypes: Is it true that women shouldn't map read on the journey to Agile Performance Management? 03 May 2017 David-Perks Agile Performance Management, The Journey (0) How affected by stereotypes are the observations and opinions that you share with others in the feedback that you give? Do you have different expectations of performance for a job depending on if it's done by a man or a woman? Research would suggest that stereotypes heavily influence the nature of feedback and yet there are many ways to overcome this. [More]