The Science
Recency Bias and Reviews
Recency bias describes the human tendency, when passing judgement, to give more consideration and mor...
October 26, 2011
Half Of All US Employees Unhappy
Mercer, a widely respected global consulting firm, has just released it's famed What's Working survey...
June 22, 2011
Skip the Self Review
As Jon Picoult points out in a Forbes article about effective performance evaluations, when organiz...
June 20, 2011
Feedback & Recognition Deficiencies
Gallup researchers have recently concluded the first ever worldwide assesment of employee engagement ...
June 15, 2011
Feedback and Gen Y
With all of the talk about killing the Performance Review, one could be excused for interpreting this...
June 01, 2011
Yes, ClearGears Works For Small Teams
We are often asked What is the minimum number of users a company must have in order to get value out ...
May 02, 2011
For Talent Retention, Listen up!
When workers were asked by Grapevine Magazine Online to identify the hypothtical situation most like...
May 02, 2011
Top-down Reviews Don't Work
Performance Reviews are broken. They're too infrequent to be relevant, too top-down to be democratic,...
March 10, 2011
Transparency Now
Consider this statistic: 76% of executives say they "always" or "somewhat frequently" act on informa...
March 09, 2011
Have Sick Days Seen Their Day?
Absenteeism in the workplace cost the US economy an estimated $74 billion last year. Yes, billion.
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March 09, 2011
The Motivational Review
According to The Creative Group, a recruitment firm here in New York City, 30% of executives say moti...
February 28, 2011
Beware of Brain Drain
In a long term study of American productivity, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has concluded that...
February 25, 2011
The Power of Suggestion
Consider the above graph. It illustrates SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) findings regar...
February 23, 2011
Joy on the Job
Performance metrics have grown increasingly complex with the advent of social media and its attendant...
February 22, 2011
One Page Talent Management
We’ve been deeply influenced by the book One Page Talent Management. We recommend this book to anyo...
October 22, 2010
Part 1 of 2: Don't Die on Me Now, Performance Reviews!
There are some who say that performance reviews should be canceled altogether. We say they should b...
July 30, 2010
Build Strengths, Don't Fight Weaknesses
Performance reviews are designed to highlight weaknesses, right? What if we used them to find stren...
July 09, 2010
Killing Me Softly: Happiness at Work and Your Health
Employers already know the correlations between happiness at work and employee productivity. Not on...
June 29, 2010
Ask Not What Your Performance Review Can Do For You...Wait, Yes, DO Ask
It's always hard to spend money on internal tools. Budgets are especially tight, but performance re...
June 16, 2010
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