Tag Archive: Staff Performance

Staff Performance: Are You Stuck In 20th Century Mud?

Introduction Has staff performance in your business improved by 10% or more since the year 2000? If not, remember this. We’ve already started the twelfth year of the 21st Century: over 10% of the new century has already passed. Ask Yourself … Have I stopped asking for written applications and resumes? What have I done…

Engineering Employee Performance: Try Using These Simple Techniques

Introduction Are you tearing your hair out because your training’s not working? Do you feel that you can’t understand your employees? Why not try an engineering approach for better results? Each of the following statements flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Yet each of them is absolutely true. A Bad System Will Beat A…

Managing Employee Performance Why Good Systems Override Pop Psychology

Introduction When employee performance falters, first look at your systems. “Fix the systems, before the people” is a good rule to follow. There are more theories about people management than there are about successful marriage. I don’t pretend to be an expert in either subject. But in over 35 years in human resources and performance…