Following up from my last post on goal setting and lightweight performance reviews, I wanted to add some information on the importance of using these tools as a way to motivate your team. I don’t know about you, but I typically dread reviews.  Why?  Well because mostly they are filled with all the critical or [...]

Everyone knows goal setting is important. For most companies goals are often part of the employee review/evaluation process.  However, when I was working on implementing a goal setting/tracking process for some of my engineering teams I went back to look at some of my old reviews and saw that the goal sections were actually pretty empty [...]