Getting Real with Performance Management

Relevant, meaningful performance management doesn’t require the efforts of a human resources department. It just requires a manager who gets the ball rolling by applying these 3 simple tricks of the trade.

Who Needs a Coach?

I recently watched Win Win, a movie which IMDb summarizes by saying: Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty, who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. I call it a wrestling movie because, well, the star athlete mentioned above? He’s a…

“Get A Haircut!”

Ryan, a buddy of mine, could swim like a fish when he was a kid. It’s like he had been born with gills and fins. He learned to swim in the ocean against strong currents, and that resistance built up his strength and endurance. Early in his freshman year of high school, the swim coach…