Dr.Deming
Improving the Dreaded Performance Review
As a Dr. Deming disciple, I’m of the opinion that performance reviews do more harm than good when it comes to motivating your employees. Within my companies, we’ve recently discarded the practice entirely. But, if you and your management team still work with yearly reviews, maybe Stephen Mihm’s article for Bloomberg View can inspire a…
Implementing and Handling Visual Management
Randy Siever of The Lean Office examines the side effects of visual management and uncovers solutions for how to handle it. Read my key takeaways from the post. Embed from Getty Images There are both positive and negative benefits of gathering and portraying performance information visually Displaying one metric could affect another area; preempt…
Use Six Sigma Tools to Improve Your Business
Max Jacobs, author of Careers For Living, shares the key to making business improvements with the Six Sigma toolbox. See my top takeaways below. Embed from Getty Images Start by defining your business objectives and developing a plan to achieve quality Measure current performance and how the results identify with your customers’ requirements Analyze…
Seven Sigma Doesn’t Need To Exist…
Gary Marion, writing for The balance, offers his insights on why Six Sigma is better than the idea of Seven Sigma. Check out my key takeaways from his article below. Embed from Getty Images …because each ‘sigma’ indicates one standard deviation on a bell curve So minimizing defects by ‘six sigmas’ will uncover practically…
How Dropping Annual Reviews Led To A Drop In Performance
Read today’s article from Lydia Dishman of Fast Company Leadership and her insights into the consequences of ditching those dreaded annual reviews. My key points from the article are below. Embed from Getty Images Recently, a number of Fortune 500 companies have publicized how they’ve stopped their annual performance reviews leading to a fall…