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For eight years I have been commenting on how similarities between Performance Reviews and Santa Clause have changed over time.  This year I thought I’d ask AI (in this case CoPilot) “what do performance reviews and Santa Clause have in common? Here’s CoPilot’s verbatim response.   “Ha! More than you might think. Here’s a fun (and a little-too-real) look at what performance reviews and Santa Claus have in common.   The Naughty/Nice List: Both involve judgment against a list—

My recent post discussing how to deal with entitled employees received such a strong positive response that I wanted to share more specific details on my original argument.    To recap, if ‘perceived entitlements’ is the issue, I argued the best way to address the issue is to ask, ‘what is the business problem caused by the employee’s behaviour (entitlement claim) and how can I solve that problem?’    Then I argued this is different from the traditional approach advocated by

In the July 2025 edition of HRMonthly, the AHRI National President, Michael Rosmarin, referenced research that found employees in...

While mandatory training has become an increasing popular practice to use over the past decade, in my view it is no longer fit for...