I need your help!

I am busy writing my next seminar which will focus on Performance Management.  In summary, however you look at it, how we currently appraise and measure people is broken; few look forward to the event; few gain from it and research show that those who come out as being the company’s best performers are (in 66% of cases) not actually the best.  As one guru has stated appraisals are an “expensive and complex way of making people feel unhappy.”

But measuring our people feels right, we are measured from an early age and so expect to have that continue when we move into business.  Our staff want feedback and want to improve; business has a vested interest in making this happen and yet all too often the current process singularly fails to deliver.  How can we square this circle? 

In the seminar I intend to consider:

• The historical context – quite how did we end up where we are?
• Why the current system fails
• What are we actually trying to achieve
• A plan, with simple defined steps on what you can tangibly do to make it better

My challenge is that I am struggling with a title.  I had considered ‘The Measure of a Man,’ (with acknowledgement to Martin Luther King), but this does not feel quite right, so I wanted to tap into your mass creativity and see what you thought.  What do you think it should be called?

I would appreciate your input. 

 Many thanks,

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