Performance Management 🙀
Investment in performance management varies from non-existent in some workplaces to months out of the year in others. Performance management season is the time of year when every manager’s stress level sky-rockets and they start dreaming of vacation.
Let’s Talk More About Imposter Syndrome
An estimated 60% of people experience impostor feelings at top tech companies but very little is done about it.
Performance Check-In Conversations
Managing 360 Feedback
I don’t have to spend a lot of time getting to know a person or building trust before offering Radically Candid guidance. In fact, a great way to get to know somebody and to build trust is to offer Radically Candid praise and criticism - Kim Scott
Setting Quarterly Objectives & Key Results
There are many ways that a company can set itself above the rest, but in my experience setting, tracking, communicating and grading OKRs plays a critical role in achieving such distinction
First Define Core Responsibilities
Start by defining a list of core areas that you expect your team members to be responsible for
High Output Management Part 4
But no matter how well a team is put together, no matter how well it is directed, the team will perform only as well as the individuals on it. In other words, everything we’ve considered so far is useless unless the members of our team will continually try to offer the best they can do.
High Output Management - Part 3
Earlier, we established the fact that the game of management is a team game: a manager’s output is the output of the organization under their supervision or influence. We know discover that management is not just a team game, it is a game in which we have to fashion a team of teams…
High Output Management - Part 2
Managers can do their job and their individual work well, but that does not constitute their output. If a manager has a group of people reporting to them or circle of people influenced by them, the manager’s output must be measured by the output created by their subordinates and associates
