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Are sterile goals preventing viral employee engagement?

10 September 2018 David-Perks Agile Performance Management (0)
When it comes to inspiring people through goals, the old approach of setting SMART goals often misses the key to engaging staff with goals.
If you align the persons life goals and strengths to the needs of the organisation, you end in a much better place of buy-in.
Think of it as needs and strengths alignment, not goal alignment and you can take a SMARTER approach to your goal setting process. [More]

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]

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]