Hybrid Management

This article suggests the many limitations of one-way, top-down performance reviews. Which is exactly why Hybrid Management's two-way, collaborative performance review approach makes all the difference!

Rather than conducting regular exit interviews, the author here suggests employers conduct "Stay Interviews" to keep abreast of their employees' satisfaction levels and keep them more involved in the workplace. Would an employer soliciting your views in a Stay Interview make it more likely that you would indeed stay?

"Studies have shown that the No. 1 characteristic associated with an executive’s failure is an insensitive, abrasive or bullying style." That is among multiple key findings of recent research indicating that niceness pays! And that a civil, respectful workplace promotes not only organizational success, but the personal good health of employees and bosses.

Intend...Plan...Empower...Assess... Is your employer committed to these basic steps in employee management that will help bring out the best in you?

To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt