Starting line at sack race: everett225 (Ron Harvey) So you missed out on promotion? Maybe that appraisal didn’t go anything like as well as you hoped. Now one or two of your peers aren’t your peers any more - they got promoted and you didn’t. It feels pretty rubbish; it happened to me once. [...]
Confession time: until I’d had some feedback and done a series of assessments, I was pretty much in the dark about what I was good at – and what my weaknesses were. Of course I had an idea – but it was just that, with incomplete evidence. So the first time I did an assessment [...]
What’s 70:20:10? The model was first proposed in 1996 by Morgan McCall and his colleagues at the Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL), Michael Lombardo and Robert Eichinger, whose research suggested that: “Lessons learned by successful and effective managers are roughly: 70% from tough jobs 20% from people (mostly the boss) 10% from courses and reading” [...]
Mirror, mirror... Self-awareness has been a bit of a topic for me lately. I recently gave a talk about raising our Emotional Intelligence that – naturally – included self-awareness and saw people were taking notes. Most of us aren’t as self-aware as we could be – we may believe we know ourselves, but [...]
Feedback. How do you feel when you read (or hear) that word? Thrilled at the prospect? Despondent at the @%*t sandwich you reckon will be headed your way? Curious and keen to learn more? And what about when giving feedback is a vital part of your job? Chances are if you manage people then giving [...]
Drum roll…fanfare...and shameless plug alert…my new book, ‘The Feedback Book’ is out this week. Why did I write The Feedback Book? Here are 6 reasons. 1. Because feedback is too important to wait for the annual appraisal Historically, employees could expect to get feedback on their performance at work in their annual appraisal discussion. 12 [...]