Performance Management: Three Positive Steps to Success

Performance Management: an employee evaluation form.

Performance management review time. It’s a dreaded time for many employees. Did you exceed expectations throughout the past year or have you been unable to impress despite your best efforts? Remember though, a performance review has become as much an inconvenience for line managers and directors as it has for employees. As the time for review […]

Team Building with the Bard

Michael Kelly never set out to be a corporate trainer. He founded Shakespeare in Action (SIA) with a mandate to help youth connect with Shakespeare in innovative ways, and the organization’s 30-year history is a testament to his success. Through SIA’s workshops and residencies, which include a hip hop performance reminiscent of Hamilton, students approach […]

5 Communication Hacks to Bust Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy exists to maintain structure and efficiency within an institution. Yet many times employees experience the exact opposite. Menial tasks have to go up the chain of command, feedback is never received, and work goes drudgingly slow. Like the feeling of walking through superglue, we get stuck. While many give up on the spot, others […]