performance

It’s Not One or the Other: How Humans and AI Make Better HR Decisions Together

Artificial intelligence is a “powerful resource for any kind of organization,” researchers Prasanna Matsa and Kusuma Gullamajji write in their 2019 report on AI’s impact on human resources. “Integration of HR practices with AI based applicants definitely have a stronger impact in enhancing the organizational performance.”

Accelerating Delivery & Performance by Jacqui Alexander

Jacqui will be talking on Friday 12th at 9:45am -10:15am, facilitating a panel conversation on 'Accelerating delivery & Performance'.

Jacqui looks at the biggest issues facing leaders today, focusing on how organisations and leaders deal with stress during perpetual times of change. She continues to look at the importance of stripping back processes to remove complexity within business transformation.

See the full agenda at excellence-leadership.com

What are you on? It's definitely NOT the end of the road for employee performance reviews by Max Blumberg

It simply doesn't feel right to miss out on the current trend of writing about the death of employee performance reviews - if nothing else, they seem to make for such catchy headlines. Just recently, for example, Accenture claimed it was doing away with annual performance appraisals, and not to be left behind, Josh Bersin, Deloitte and PWC are suggesting we'll soon see radical changes in this domain. However, in the words of Andrew Lloyd Webber: "I've got news for you" and my news is: organisations will never do away with performance reviews because if they do, they will fail.

Change = Performance drop? It’s a Faulty Equation… by Vivienne Edgecombe

This series of articles is best read in order, so if you haven’t read article 1, article 2.1 or article 2.2 yet, I invite you to head over and do that first.

If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It! by Richard Cronin

Measuring and managing change

We never cease to be amazed by how many mid-large organisations we engage with that do not have effective tools and processes in place to forecast, plan, measure and report work. Yet these same companies expect their managers to drive improvements, to continue increasing revenue and profitability.