From Harvard Business Reviw:
How to give feedback to a productive worker?
To make the most of your feedback session, focus the discussion on three levels: the star’s current performance, her next performance frontier, and her future goals and aspirations.
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Have you ever heard of CoWorking? I didn’t. Until Today. And I love the concept. It’s very simple: a work space open to every worker away from office. A real work space with its advantages such as a real desk, real connexions,… and more important real people to talk to, exchang[...]
Writing out a business case is often a long and hard activity only a few managers go through. The BC is neglected. There are numerous consequences to that: - The accuracy of the project is poor, - The ROI analysis is uncertain, - You have no reference throughout the project - When surrises come (an[...]
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Found on the Washington Post’s blog a usefull short post: Meeting Survival Guide I don’t agree with all, so here’s my selection: 1. Delegate: Are you the appropriate one? 2. Shift to email or phone: Could this question be processed by mail or phone? 3. Multi-task: if it doesn̵[...]
Thanks to a friend of mine, here comes the new version of ExcelGTD. Guillaume has admirably developed two new modules: OutlookSync: Copy your activities in Outlook with tasks and meeting (for your tasks with milestones). You have to activate this module in the Param sheet. AutoCompletion: He[...]