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Competency and Culture
Seven posts on turning culture into something you can measure, reward, and act on.
7 posts
Competency and Culture
Your Performance Reviews Measure Your Managers, Not Your People
62% of a performance rating reflects the person giving it. Here is why ratings drift, and how calibration makes them fair again.
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Competency and Culture
Your Best Performer Might Be Your Most Expensive Hire
A toxic culture predicts attrition 10 times more strongly than pay. How to spot a brilliant jerk, and how to score the how as well as the what.
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Competency and Culture
Your Values Don't Fail on the Wall. They Fail in the Review.
Integrity is the most common company value, and it predicts nothing. How to turn values into behaviours managers can see and rate.
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Competency and Culture
"Not a Culture Fit" Is the Most Expensive Sentence in Hiring
Researchers filmed 30 hours of real job interviews. "Not a fit" often meant "not like the interviewer." How to hire for culture add instead.
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Competency and Culture
Never Discuss the Raise and the Growth Plan in the Same Meeting
Once the salary number enters the room, the feedback stops landing. Why pay and development conversations belong in separate meetings.
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Competency and Culture
Calibration Isn't Bureaucracy. It's the Only Honest Part of Your Review.
More raters will not fix unreliable ratings. Evidence-based calibration will. What a good session looks like, and how to avoid forced ranking.
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Competency and Culture
The Most Popular Competency Library Has 38 Competencies. Your 100-Person Company Needs Fewer Than 10.
Enterprise competency libraries run to 38 items or more. A growing company needs fewer than 10. How to choose them, and how to spot bloat.
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Video Series · 28 parts
Competency and Culture
How to run fair reviews, make your values real, and hire for culture add, in short, practical videos for founders and people leaders.
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