It's performance evaluation season at work. On Thursday, I delivered three evaluations. I actually enjoy delivering performance evaluations and - even more - thinking about goals for the next year. At the end of each conversation, I asked the team member, How was that? It's the mark of a successful manager when the reply is, …
There you are, minding your own business, and all of a sudden - blammo - it hits you: performance evaluation season. Ugh. No one likes performance evaluation season. First, it often hits at the same time that the fiscal year starts; so, just as your budget gets approved and you are plunged into the fray …
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My sister’s birthday is this weekend, and my niece’s, too – lucky sis went into labor on her birthday. Birthday’s have always been important to my sister. They’re also important to me but they take on some kind of weird, mystical importance to her, as if by constructing the perfect birthday celebration, she will, through …
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