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  • 3 performance review politics that always trump merit When performance reviews were created the goal was to collect and share observed performance feedback that would sustain good performance or needed to improve performance.  The performance review would then inform the merit increase in salary. A pay increase or bonus based on merit.  Transparent for all to see, for all to count on, and [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • New clichés for organization development Jargon, clichés, rhetoric  – talking while saying nothing.   Companies develop their own language or accepted terms.  Professions develop their own lingo.  People use stock phrases or go-to frameworks.  All of these are an attempt to communicate, to create a common understanding, to fit in, to prove what you know, and to make sense of [...]
    21 days on
    Toby Elwin
  • Crowdsourcing your organization strategy, what’s to appreciate? Crowdsourcing relies on people to participate in a meaningful process as potential partners.  In crowdsourcing people who were formally known as the customer now become the collaborator.  The power of collective collaboration can not only drive product innovation, but has been leveraged for decades to build organization strategy. Where most organization strategy process finds more [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • Fistful of beans 03/02/2011 4 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Implementing Planned Change: An Empirical Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives — American Journal of Business Planned change has been viewed from a variety of conceptual perspectives, but few models of planned change we’ve all been part of have been studied using empirical research designs.  With a study [...]
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  • Fistful of beans 04/06/2011 3 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Learning Fosters Psychologically Healthy Workplaces — CLO Magazine The American Psychological Association (APA) recently awarded 8 companies with their Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards (PHWA). The companies were rated on five different criteria: employee involvement, health and safety, work-life balance, employee recognition, and employee growth and development. [...]
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  • Marketing: trying to rekindle the old days Though coming for a while, there was no sign of bitterness from the advertiser when his consumer finally walks out and abandons the clearly, lopsided relationship: Which side of the table is your seat? In a prior blog Marketing 2.0 — You Better Free Your Mind Instead I recapped: Lose control, provide content, make it easy [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • The final frontier of competitive advantage Competitive advantage:  the final frontier. Today only 2 areas remain for competitive advantage: talent management and project management Put another way, an organization has 2 ways to beat their competition: their ability to motivate people and their ability to reliably deliver projects. Talent as a hard asset Hiring the right talent and keeping that talent [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • The communication obstacle course A successful message retains the oomph of intent.  For this to happen communication must travel an obstacle course to reach each person.  Some of the bulwarks against communication’s smooth path to understanding include:  values, bias, mood, culture, agenda, and emotion.  These force communication through filters that affect both the intent and the impact of the [...]
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  • Fistful of beans 08/24/2011 3 of things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1.   Bored People Quit — Rands in Response blog People who quit say:  “I don’t believe in this company.”  Bored people quit. The author of this post is neither an HR professional nor an organization development/behavior professional, this author simply manages people.  I say [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • Project management is useless without scale Project management is a profession. Project management is a discipline. Project management is a skill. Project management is a function. Project management is a knowledge Project management is useless without scale and project management helps no one if it is not scaleable. Compare an accounting function of a Fortune 50 company to an accounting function in a 60-person organization.  The [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • Project management is not a process, but a promise A project introduces something new.  New requires change from what was to a promise of what will.   The project deliverable, or promise, undertaken without process is a leap in the dark.  No sane person will take a leap in the dark without some promise or rational premise of: what will be, what it will cost [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • The best meeting icebreaker to break the ice Meeting icebreakers can be as painful as a bucket of ice down your shorts.  The icebreaker’s intent?  Loosen things up, meet people, set the stage for effective work. The challenge, if you are going to use an icebreaker, is to understand the difference between hokey and intentional. Know your audience is a constant refrain.  But sometimes, [...]
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  • What Steve Jobs reminds those in technology Steve Jobs retired last week.  Steve Jobs had incredible impact as Apple CEO as well as a cultural icon whose products re-shaped and re-defined our relationship with technology.  Steve Jobs’ retirement reminds those in technology that a liberal arts view to their work could serve them better. It might be a stretch to say Apple is [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • Fistful of beans 01/12/2011 5 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. New Year, New Measurement Challenges — Talent Management Magazine Measuring talent management effectiveness requires knowing the answer to questions such as “Is the organization attracting better quality applicants?” or “Is the organization retaining its most productive employees?” While relatively few organizations measure the effectiveness of [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • Fistful of beans 01/26/2011 5 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Capabilities-Driven Mergers & Acquisitions — Booz & Company A video conversation on the role that capabilities can have to drive successful, strategic mergers.  This 18-minute, question and answer, interview-style video is broken down in 5 chapters:  The New Meaning of Scale; The Path to Coherence; Capabilities Roadmapping; Integrating [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • Why 70% is a key metric for learning and development The 70-20-10 rule represents, by percentage, how people actually learn and develop:  70% from job experiences, 20% from feedback and collaboration, and only 10% from courses and from reading. If 70% of learning happens on-the-job, what the employee can take back and use after the actual learning remains the most critical reinforcing loop for both the [...]
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  • Fistful of beans 02/09/2011 5 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Apple, With or Without Steve Jobs — Bloomberg Businessweek Perhaps there is a coincidence last week’s Fistful of Beans presented an article to divine Google’s possible transformation through their leadership queue, but it looks like Apple is heading into their own multiple-choice risk scenario.  Now [...]
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  • Fistful of beans 02/23/2011 4 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed result 1. Talent Management vs Talent Analytics: The Difference is More than Just Semantics — Talent Analytics blog In the 1990s talent management emerged as a management practice to shift responsibility of employees an exclusive role for human resource departments to managers throughout the organization. The past 20 [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • Fistful of beans 01/19/2011 5 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. The tussle for talent — The Economist Successful companies integrate talent development with their broader strategy to ensure that companies are more than the sum of their parts.  P&G, for example, likes its managers to be both innovative and worldly: they cannot rise to the [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • Fistful of beans 03/16/2011 4 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Screening for Resiliency Adaptability and Resilience — Talent Management Magazine Change is constant, whether we, as individuals, our team, or our organization like this reality, change demands resilience from people, teams, and organization. Change also causes constant challenges to some more than others. Those who adapt thrive, [...]
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    Toby Elwin
  • Fistful of beans 03/30/2011 4 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Still too big to fail — CFO Magazine Too-big-to-fail is defined as the government using taxpayer dollars to rescue “systemically important” banks. Few debate that the expectation of bailouts provides banks little incentive to guard against excessive risk.  Today the solutions being debated may elevate overall [...]
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