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Tom Bolt

Disconnect Pay from Performance Management

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The albatross around the neck of reformers in performance management is the link to pay raises. This unholy marriage between pay and performance is so deeply rooted in business philosophy that it is painful to think about the surgical procedure necessary to separate them. Paying somebody for their actual accomplishments sounds good to company management and to human resources managers that are trying to balance the needs of people with the needs of the company.… Read More »Disconnect Pay from Performance Management

Coachability: Looking at Coaches and Coachees

If you object to sports analogies being used in a business context, please forgive this blatant attempt to draw yet another parallel. Athletes at the peak of their game and at the pinnacle of their career have one thing in common: they all have a coach. Part of the maturation process of a child moving into adulthood involves learning when to give up a piece of ego in order to learn how to improve their… Read More »Coachability: Looking at Coaches and Coachees

The Four Shades of Privacy

To say that social media is causing privacy issues is a gross overstatement of a problem. Again we are guilty of focusing on the medium rather than the message. People cause privacy issues. Most recently there is another furor over the privacy of personal information on Facebook that has taken on ridiculous proportions resulting in pranksters circulating hoaxes about how to post a status change that will prevent them or anybody else from using data… Read More »The Four Shades of Privacy

When is Enough Enough?

In college I was extremely fortunate to have friends… brothers in both a spiritual and fraternal meaning of the word… who had a unique way of educating each other on reality vs. fiction in life. It was a tough-love type of message that could only be communicated by people who were close enough to get the message when outsiders might have been offended. What was that message? When one of us would get a little… Read More »When is Enough Enough?

The Best of Make HR Happen – From the Archives v.4

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  This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen.               About Feng Shui and Your Underwear Drawer – For those who don’t know, Feng Sui is an ancient Chinese art and science that deals with the balance of energies in any given space. Good feng shui contributes to good health. In modern times the practice that has evolved has less to do with orienting the life… Read More »The Best of Make HR Happen – From the Archives v.4