Should we ditch the annual review?

  Continuing the reflections from last week, following my guest lecture on Dr Jelena Petrovic‘s excellent HRM Masters at Kingston University, here are some points that emerged from our discussion on the value or otherwise of an annual performance...

More NO NOs of the annual review

Last week, I promised I would give my views on the merits or otherwise of reviewing performance against competencies and also look at manager-led appraisals.  In short, does anyone actually still use such approaches? Surely not. Reviewing performance against...

The big NO NOs of the annual review

Last week, I discussed the hole that is left by abandoning the annual performance review. This week, let’s look at the parts of the review process that do indeed need to be dropped: in my view these are, forced-ranking, annual goals, review of competencies and...

Tips on cybersecurity

  I have just been through a great online course about cybersecurity and how to be safe online. It reminded me of an old (bad) joke that used to be on the HR conference circuit: “People think they are good at three things: driving, love-making, and being a...