I love Human Resources. I love almost everything about it. Many HR headaches are overwhelmingly difficult, but that gives me a mental high. Many HR solutions are common sense, and while they come with a fairly large eye roll, they also allow me take a mental holiday and still seem amazingly brilliant! Many HR issues are deeply personal or intimate but they enable me to ... Read Full Article
You’re My Favorite!
Bosses who claim they don't have favorites are lying! They're lying to you and they're lying to themselves. I don't know why they bother lying; I believe having favorites is perfectly acceptable. Please note, "having favorites" and demonstrating "favoritism" are not the same thing. Giving an employee unfair preferential treatment at the expense of another is rude and wrong, and ... Read Full Article
Do You Know Who Works For You?
Perusing Facebook, I always see personality tests and posts where people brag about being either an introvert or an extravert. Some people use their lack of desire for interaction as an excuse to be standoffish and others attribute their good or bad actions to their outgoing personalities. Just last month, I attended a conference where Introversion/Extraversion seemed to come ... Read Full Article
“Good Enough”, Rarely Is!
The other day I had a terrifying thought during an otherwise mundane moment: What if I’m mediocre? This is actually a huge fear of mine. Oddly, being bad at something doesn’t bother me – there are plenty of things I’ll never be good at and I’m really ok with that. My fear is that I’m only marginal good at the things that are important to me and I believe I do well. For ... Read Full Article
Getting Your Performance Review Rebuttal Right
For the most part, people will agree they do their jobs and sail into performance review time with no worries. They go through the performance process and everything they are hearing aligns with their efforts and accomplishments for the year. Great! However, what happens when you receive a review that you aren’t totally in agreement with? Do you accept the erroneous evaluation ... Read Full Article
Performance: Shut Up and Drive!
What do you look for in a car? Performance, amirite? Many of us want a combination of several things in a car but one thing is clear, in its basic form a car must perform. I wish I could consider myself a “car guy” but I can’t because I can’t afford them. I love fast, high performing cars. Each automaker has their sport package or luxury line of cars, trucks, SUVs and ... Read Full Article
How To Ensure Mediocre Performance
Creating and maintaining high performance in our workplaces is not easy. It takes a lot of effort ... And that's probably why so many individuals and organizations fail at it. Not everyone is cut out for it. Not everyone wants to put in the work it takes to have it. So I'm not going to talk about it. I'm going to talk about being mediocre. Here are 5 sure-fire ways to ensure ... Read Full Article
How to Improve Performance Reviews
My colleagues here at #PICHR have been toiling away this month, trying to enlighten our readers about performance management, and how best to deal with it. And while I think they have provided some great concepts as usual, I think I may have eclipsed them with my one upmanship. I think I truly have resolved this dilemma. Do we scrap the whole annual review thing? Do we do ... Read Full Article
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