Episode #38 - Laurie Genevish Discusses Performance Improvement and Assessments - a podcast by Kelly Vandever

Permission to Speak Podcast. Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever. Episode #38 - Laurie Genevish. Permission to Speak is the video blog and podcast that loiters at the intersections of leaders who want their people to speak up, technology that facilitates connections, and results that serve an organization’s higher purpose. Topics covered in this episode include: - Laurie literally got hired (and into her career choice) as a result of a conversation in an elevator!
- Performance improvement consultants help companies with issues like having a problem keeping employees in a particular role and aren’t sure why, not knowing who their future leaders are, having a team that isn’t working well together, forming a new team for an important project
- Benchmarking employees
- Succession planning
- Create a mutually beneficial workplace
- Unintended consequences of “how we are” as leaders
- The Harrison Assessment
- Paradoxes
- It’s not just about the manager understanding the employees, it’s also important for employees to understand the manager so they can better manage up
- Ask employees or other trusted individuals for feedback, ask for insight so you can grow as a leader
- If you’re not someone who normally asks for feedback, and they don’t give you feedback, that’s an indicator of something about your leadership style too
- Leaders need to pay more and more attention to who their successors are going to be
- A lot of leaders will be retiring soon, get ahead of the game
- In the next 5 years, 30% of the workforce will be retiring and 70% of it will be leadership
- Assessments give you information that you can’t get just talking to an employee
- Business is about the numbers but you can’t get there without the people

- Questions answered:

- Can an assessment help me be a better manager?

- Can an assessment help me with staffing?

- What’s the most important issue that leaders will be facing in the next 5 years?

- Why is succession planning important?

- Why will succession planning be important within the next 5 years?

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