Tag: McKinsey

The pandemic may be over, but the fallout is causing HR pros to stress out and burn out

DO YOU KNOW WHAT GRABS my attention? It’s stories that say that HR leaders are getting battered by crises that are leading to burnout and higher turnover, and that managing a workforce in flux is causing “chaos for HR professionals.” For the love of SHRM, what is going on with human resources today? It seems that even though we’re finally recovering from the global

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What Companies are Finally Doing to Fix Performance Management

PERFORMANCE management, at least as organizations have traditionally practiced it, is in big trouble. A recent McKinsey report didn’t pull any punches when it said: Managers and staff alike too often view performance management as time consuming, excessively subjective, demotivating, and ultimately unhelpful. In these cases, it does little to improve the performance of employees. It

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