Success Lesson from John C.Maxwell

It is excellent narration about “Successful people know their purpose of Life” by John C.Maxwell in a Leadership Conference.

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Performance Review Meetings – Common Ground for Constructive Feedback System

Performance is focused behavior or purposeful work (Rudman, 1998, p. 205)

Generally performance review meetings are depicted as fighting stage for manager and team member. In my experience, I found few thing which I like to share here. I am here to tell you how to make performance reviews more useful to the life and not how to conduct/attend a performance review activity. To me, argument on a disputed item is not wrong. But suddenly dispute arises at the end of year while discussing the performance. How come that could be possible? Main reason for these are:

* Manager and team member are not communicating well about the work performed regularly.

* Expectations set by manager are not clear or misunderstood.

* Wrong goal settings for the respective team member’s role.

* Not much work to perform. Keeping a person in bench for long time and telling he has not performed the activity for most of the review period.

* Both manager and team member doesn’t understand they are working for the project/organization and taking things personal.

* Manager lists only mistakes whereas team member points only work performed.

* Comparing team members – this is done by both manager and team member. Ex. Manager says ‘That guy is also same experience of yours but delivering more output’. Team member says – ‘That guy is also same grade as mine but you are giving more benefits to him but not to me’

* Politics between team member and manager – Ex. May be team member is an eligible candidate for Manager promotion but manager doesn’t want to promote him.

* At the extreme level, considering both of them are enemies in the battle ground. In this team member & manager never accepts each others’ comments and even throwing papers/slamming doors at the end/shouting in the loud voice happens.

Everyone, from top management till the lowest level employees, experience above mentioned point in their life every year or half yearly or quarterly based on their feedback review period. To be practical (I don’t want to use ‘Ideal’ which means ‘impossible’ in all our dictionaries!), performance review meetings are common ground for constructive feedback system. During these meetings manager and team member

* understands about each others expectations

* sets common goal to achieve to make the project successful in turn making each one involved in the project successful

* draws road map for the career goals and aspirations

* takes closer look at issues in hand and develop solutions to overcome

I started practicing above four points early on in my project management career and it is absolutely possible to do it. Try and tell me is it making any change in your teams growth.

Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Speech to Tomorrow’s Leaders

Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam renowned for his work with Indian Science & Research Organization and he was headed few important space projects. He also served as President of India. He is a down-to-earth person. He was delivering great speech to school children. I found it is not only for young children but for growing leaders. Surely it is delightful watching this inspirational delivery.

Total Video Length: 20 mins.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 TO YOU ALL!

Happy New Year Wishes to All of you! Let the new year brings you all great power to lead the world to right direction.

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Once again Happy New Year 2009!