Feedback – across an organization, most people will agree it is critical to the individual, a team, and even company-wide performance improvement and growth. So why is it then, most people (and companies) stink at giving and...
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“Please, for the love of humanity, not another pointless meeting.” At some point in the last 30-days you’ve uttered some form of those words. We all have. The statistics don’t lie. Atlassian recently published data suggesting ...
Like the cartoon, most people don’t look forward to performance reviews. In fact, in the hundreds of companies we’ve studied, and the thousands of employees we’ve surveyed and with whom we’ve spoken, easily over 60% of them (the...
I'm a sucker for a great line, especially when put to equally great music. Fred Neil hit the Exacta Box with his Grammy Award-winning song (for Vocal Performance by Harry Nilsson), "Everybody's Talkin'." Nilsson's version of the...
One of our values at SHIFT is to help our clients share information to better engage and enable their people to drive the performance of their organization. We call the construction of regularly held, intentional conversations...
The business world’s single greatest cop out. If you’ve ever said this before, it’s not your fault you’re skirting additional responsibilities. Our job descriptions and titles have programed us to be single-minded myopic...
The choices we make I never cared for the band Rush. Maybe it was because they were the preferred band of a racist moron I had to work with at my first Radio Shack, but I think it was their music. Still, one of their most...
“Can I see the organizational chart, so I understand how the company works?” How many times have you been asked a variation of this question by a potential new or current employee - or even asked it yourself? Often, when we...
“Thank-yous” and Praise, Empty Verbal Calories Without the Nutritional Value of Specifics People who know me well know that many of my favorite analogies involve food. So, it’s not surprising when my first thoughts about...
