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How Top Management Views Performance Appraisal Systems - Click To Read Article
How important is your leadership team's support of the performance management system in your organization? A recent study into the views of HR professionals towards their appraisal system sheds interesting light on the value of top level endorsement.

Employee Performance Management: Time to Reinvent the Wheel - Click To Read Article
Performance-management systems are broken at the majority of companies in every corner in the world. By teasing apart results of a recent worldwide survey of HR professionals, we've seen how evaluations are viewed as a joke by employees, a waste of time by many managers and a non-actionable talking point by some senior executives.

Performance Appraisals and Compensation: A Deadly Mix - Click To Read Article
The annual jostling for pay rises based on employee performance is often described as ineffective by HR professionals, largely dreaded by managers and treated with suspicion by employees. So why do organizations still engage in this annual exercise?

What Is Wrong with Performance Appraisals? - Click To Read Article
How effective are organizations at driving superior performance from their employees? If we are to believe human resources professionals, the answer is that our performance management systems are failing to make the grade. This is the sobering conclusion from Sibson Consulting\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s worldwide survey.

Seven Practices of Successful Teams in Sport and Business - Click To Read Article
There are a small number of key practices that we use when we play a team sport. However, those practices are often forgotten when we try to get the best from our employees. Successful business owners and managers apply these important practices day in and day out. Find out what these key practices are and start applying them today in your business.

Managing Change in Organizations: Lessons from the Best - Click To Read Article
IBM's Making Change Work Study survey draws some very powerful lessons on how best to bring about successful change in your organization.

Project Success: Top Ten Tips - Click To Read Article
All organizations run projects from time to time. Yet more than half of all projects started fail their objectives. Why is this so? Read this article to discover ten things you can do to improve the chances of success with your project.

Change Leadership: The Keys to Success - Click To Read Article
Responding to and initiating change in today’s organization is a prerequisite to maintaining or gaining competitive advantage. Yet many organizations fail in bringing about worthwhile change. If you are tasked with leading a change initiative in your organization, then this article is essential reading. Leslie Allan provides a starkly honest and compelling overview of what it takes to be a change champion in today’s business environment.

Workplace Change in Six Steps - Click To Read Article
Managing change in today’s organizations is not easy. Those companies that get it right win a significant strategic advantage over their struggling competitors. Leslie Allan shows how you can apply a practical change management process that will help you gain success on your next change initiative.

Improve Your Training Sessions with the Five Rights of Training - Click To Read Article
All trainers need to take stock occasionally of how they are going. Are your training sessions as effective as they could be? Use these Five Rights of training to help you review where your training programs could be missing the mark.

Process Mapping: Ten Tips for Success - Click To Read Article
Mapping your organization’s processes makes good business sense as well as lays the foundation for a motivated and productive workforce. Leslie Allan shows you how you can use process mapping to engage your employees and why it works so effectively.

Effective Managers Understand Psychology - Click To Read Article
Novice managers often struggle to get the best out of their people because they labor under a one-dimensional view of what motivates their employees. In this article, Leslie Allan illustrates how a little psychology can return huge dividends.

7 PowerPoint Presentation Bloopers - Click To Read Article
Whether you are a business owner, manager or facilitator, here are seven practices to avoid if you want your next PowerPoint presentation to be a success. The author skillfully turns each poor practice on its head to draw positive lessons for us all.

10 Ways to Cut Your Training Budget - Click To Read Article
Training managers are often asked to slice their training budget during tough times. Leslie Allan suggests 10 ways of meeting this challenge that will see the training function strengthen its place.

Your Consulting Business and Web 2.0 - Click To Read Article
Using the internet to move your consulting business forward requires more than putting up a web site. Are you really leveraging the new social media aspects of the web for the future benefit of your business? Leslie Allan prods your thinking on how to use this new medium as he reviews a provocative white paper on this important business topic.

Workplace Coaching: Selecting a Coach - Click To Read Article
When choosing a coach for your employees, you have before you a number of options. Selecting the wrong coach can lead to disaster. Use the pointers in this article to help you decide on who would make an effective coach in your workplace.

Training Employees: Stop Wasting Your Money - Click To Read Article
You send your people on expensive training courses. Yet your business performance does not seem to improve. Your problem may lie in how you look at training. This article considers two popular views of how training works. Hold the outdated view and you will continue to lose money on training. Act on the enlightened view and your business and people will prosper. Which view do you hold?

Achieving Goals: A Process Approach - Click To Read Article
If you find yourself continually struggling to reach your goals, it may be time to look at the process you use. Whether you are working in your own business or in someone else's, Leslie Allan has cemented together five key steps for successfully achieving your objectives.

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About the Author: Leslie Allan
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Leslie Allan is Managing Director of Business Performance Pty Ltd; a management consulting firm specializing in people and process capability. He has been assisting organizations for over 20 years, contributing in various roles as project manager, consultant and trainer for organizations large and small.

Mr. Allan is a prolific writer on business issues, with many journal and web articles to his credit. He is also the author of five books on employee capability, training and change management. Mr. Allan currently serves as Divisional Council Member for the Australian Institute of Training and Development and is a member of the Australian Institute of Management, the Graduate Management Association of Australia and the American Society for Quality.

His company's Business Performance web site is a rich source of information, advice and tools in a variety of management areas. Visit today to download trial versions of products, free templates and introductory chapters. While you are there, subscribe to their informative monthly newsletter and join the blog discussion




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Training Employees Stop Wasting Your Money
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How Top Management Views Performance Appraisal Systems
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