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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

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Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. How to Respond to the Most Infuriating Kind of Performance Review.

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Fast Results: Accomplish More in Less Time

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The clock’s ticking and there’s pressure to perform. Identify and communicate the biggest [.] The post Fast Results: Accomplish More in Less Time appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Competing priorities complicate the scene. Pushing harder exacerbates stress. Stress leads to inaction. Time to move fast.

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3 Ways to Prepare for a Better Performance Review

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My phone rang and Laura, my boss, told me she needed my accomplishments a week earlier than expected. As I sat on the beach sipping my chardonnay, I vowed to never blow off preparing for a performance review again. Here’s what I learned from Laura about showcasing your accomplishments. I was proud, but exhausted.

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3 Ways To Challenge Your Team Toward Higher Performance

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3 Ways to Improve Your Team’s Performance. 1% on a key performance metric, they would save 2 million dollars! Pair off your team into performance-enhancing diads (although they work like steroids on your results, they’re perfectly legal.) Do the Math. His math was brilliant. If they could move the needle.1%

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How To Move a Team From Forming to High Performing in < 48 Hours

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The second week on campus, teams of first year MBA students would have 48 hours to research and make recommendations on a real business challenge for a large, high-profile company and package and communicate their recommendation to a high-profile audience. How to Move a Team From Forming to High Performing in < 48 Hours.

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How to Reset Performance Expectations for Better Results

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The start of the year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. Outstanding performance starts with clear performance expectations —a shared understanding of what success looks like. The new year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. “But they SHOULD know better!”

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Ten Common Mistakes New Managers Make

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In the meantime, poor performance or toxic behavior continues and becomes the norm. What to do: Address poor performance and disruptive behavior as soon as it happens. Additional reading: How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback (this article describes a step-by-step methodology to do this well).