Training is a very important part of your career advancement. Training classes provide opportunities to enhance generic and specialized skills on your job and in your career. I highly recommend you take advantage of all of the training and learning opportunities provided at your workplace – it is a no-cost way to improve your skills, [...]

We love when we find good quality performance review humor. Here’s a guide for you to understand performance review comments: Dictionary of Evaluation Comments Some of you might like to know what the supervisor is really saying in all those glowing employee work performance evaluations s/he keeps cranking out. AVERAGE: Not too bright. EXCEPTIONALLY WELL [...]

We are an innovative society. Creative people used to be abnormal, now some measure of creativity is expected in all of us. Creativity and innovation in your job can make or break your career: the trick is balancing your creativity and innovating in the right way. Failures do occur in an innovative workplace: how you [...]

Most companies have evolved from a “command and control” structure to one of at least a team based environment, if not a fully matrixed work environment. For the manager, this makes cooperation among teammates and among groups essential for success. For employees, receiving cooperation from other employees and other departments is often the only way [...]

Many people (including this site) have encouraged dumping the current performance review process and replace it with a more effective system, however, we believe a great performance appraisal process can result in great things. We actually love the performance review process – when it’s part of an effective performance management cycle. There are some great [...]