As we head into the final quarter of 2012 (and how did that happen?), questions of hiring, performance reviews, feedback, salary increases, bonuses, goal and objective setting come to the fore.

What strategies do you use as a manager? As an employee? How many of you set goals either for yourself or for your team every month or quarter? How are these measured? Indeed, (how) are they supported?

[Originally in #awesomewomen Dec 2 2012]

Two points here I thought really excellent:

"The first thing to learn as a manager: the people that work for you aren't the same as you.

The second thing to learn as a manager: they aren't the same as each other, either."

via thoughtstreams.io