Harvard Business School Videos

The Harvard Business School recently made a series of short videos of Dick Grote providing his counsel and insights on performance management for their executive education programs.

Introduction to Performance Management

Dick Grote explains why performance management is vital to the success of an organization and why doing performance management is difficult.

The Value of an Honest Performance Review

Dick Grote talks about his (devastating) first performance appraisal and the value of an honest performance review.

How to Make Employees Responsible for Their Performance

Dick Grote explains how to talk with an employee whose performance or behavior is unsatisfactory so that the employee will assume personal responsibility for correcting the problem.

Discovering a Cultural Bias

Dick Grote talks about the risks of having our Western culture and assumptions influence how we look at performance in non-Western organizations.