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It’s time for a shift in mindset: think “performance planning”

Posted in Performance Planning on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Performance reviews should be positively oriented toward achieving future goals and success. At Insight, we believe that two-thirds of a traditional “performance review” should focus on an employee’s future and only one-third should evaluate his past. In fact, that’s why we designed BLOOM® to include so many features that promote employee growth and improvement and why we prefer the term “performance planning.” [More...]

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Use index tools to guide the employee development process

Posted in Performance Planning, Strategic Alignment on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Teddy Roosevelt once said that “the best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” When you’re running a business, you need to be sure that the members of your team are [...]

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Need to know! Characteristics of successful teams

Posted in Leadership, Performance Planning on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Note: We have adapted portions of this post from P. Scholtes, B. Joiner, and B. Streibel, 2003, The Team Handbook, Oriel, Madison, WI. “Team” is a term that means something in the world of athletics, and it’s come to mean something in business, too. “Team” as it relates to sports is easy enough to understand; [...]

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Ready, set, go! An introduction to job matching

Posted in Performance Planning, Strategic Alignment, Talent Mangement on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

One of our latest blog posts highlighted the inevitable success that results when you align the right people with the right strategy. We believe that by understanding that each person has a distinct talent you will frame how they will approach their interests and their work. We also believe that the greater a person’s ability [...]

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