by Dick Grote | Sep 18, 2014 | Forced Ranking
First, we all need to forget about 360-degree feedback, at least for performance-appraisal purposes. Certainly, 360-degree feedback may have a place—a minor place—in helping people get a better understanding of their development needs. But it has no place in...
by Dick Grote | Apr 9, 2009 | Forced Ranking, Performance Management
Like many web sites, our Grote Consulting Corporation website invites browsers to send in questions. I love getting questions: It’s a great way to find out what’s on people’s minds so I can cover the issue that’s been raised in my writings on performance management or...
by Dick Grote | May 15, 2008 | Forced Ranking, Talent Management
There can certainly be concerns about the forced ranking process I advocate. Turns out, most of those concerns are actually benefits. First objection—it’s arbitrary. Well certainly using a predetermined distribution (like top 20 percent, vital 70 percent, and...
by Dick Grote | Jan 8, 2007 | Forced Ranking, Performance Improvement, Performance Management
There’s a way to improve performance appraisal. And a way not to. First, we need to forget about 360-degree feedback, at least for performance appraisal purposes. Certainly, 360-degree feedback may have a place—a minor place—in helping people get a better...
by Dick Grote | Dec 6, 2006 | Books by Dick Grote, Forced Ranking, Performance Management
In this highly practical book, performance management expert Dick Grote demonstrates that forced ranking can be the antidote to the common problems of inflated ratings and flawed appraisal processes that many organizations encounter. While forced ranking has been the...
by Dick Grote | Feb 24, 2006 | Books by Dick Grote, Forced Ranking, Performance Management
Dick Grote’s new book, Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work, argues that forced ranking doesn’t have to be a dog-eat-dog Darwinian exercise. Here, from Appendix A to the book, is a CEO’s memo to participants in the ranking process. The memo was sent to...
