Thought Leadership Blogs

Dr. Lee Kang Yam Chief Learning Curator | Flame Centre In my performance management training, I often get asked whether performance appraisals can be fair . Let’s explore this question in this article. Fairness in performance appraisal means adhering to the following criteria: 1. No favouritism 2. Without prejudice and discrimination 3. Not influenced by external pressures or persons 4. Free from self-interest 1. No Favouritism First, no favouritism means supervisors do n

Dr. Lee Kang Yam Chief Learning Curator | Flame Centre In my performance management training, I often asked participants what comes to their mind when they think of ‘Performance Management’ and frequently, the majority of the answers seemed to be ‘appraisal’, ‘grade’ or ‘assessment’ just like to word cloud image above. Most people equate performance appraisal to performance management. Performance appraisal is part of the performance management process - it is an important pa

A common pitfall of performance management and why you should avoid it immediately.