The Leverage Point Podcast Angela Lane & Sergey Gorbatov

Learn the strategic nuances of talent reviews and get actionable insights on how to navigate this critical process in talent management with intentionality and strategic acumen to get more of what you need from your career.

Dive into the art of navigating performance reviews with ease. Discover how to handle your emotions, engage with feedback constructively, and use the review process as a catalyst for professional growth.

Join us for Episode 15 where Angela and Sergey dive into the buzzing topic of AI in performance reviews. In "Will AI Take Over Performance Reviews?", we're chatting about how AI is changing the game in evaluating employee performance. Is it making appraisals better or just more complicated? We'll look at tools like Confirm and Culture Amp, which use AI to gather feedback and draft reviews. But here's the big question: can AI really replace the human touch in understanding and evaluating staff? We're also tackling the tricky side of ethics and how employees feel about AI-written feedback. Tune in for an engaging, straight-talk discussion that cuts through the tech jargon to the heart of what AI means for the future of performance appraisals.
 
Referenced study: 
Tong, S., Jia, N., Luo, X., & Fang, Z. (2021). The Janus face of artificial intelligence feedback: Deployment versus disclosure effects on employee performance. Strategic Management Journal.

In this episode, our guest Edie Goldberg - a talent management consultant and author of The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity - talks about how to get a career edge by multiplying opportunities to do great work and learn. "It's much easier to find a new job in a different company than to find a new job in an existing company," she said, which is unfortunate, but it does not have to be that way. Listen in to hear her practical advice on what anyone can do to get an inside gig, like:
Work on cross-functional projects
Understand the skills you have and where the company is going to identify the potential match
Get curious: ask people what they do. Interview others to learn what they work on
Sell your boss on how your time and talent can be optimized
Seek inside gigs to learn in the flow of work, and more… 
Another thing she said that is absolutely true: "Your next job doesn't exist yet".
Finally, do check out the 5 Pitfalls to Avoid When You Do Side Gigs blog post that we discussed with Edie.
 
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Music credits: Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes

Career success is accelerated when we, as individuals, are in alignment with the work we do: it gives us purpose, plays to our strengths, is enjoyable and more.  When we find ourselves “suited” to our work, it becomes easier to do, excel and be rewarded.  And when we know what alignment looks like, we can plan our career, to get more of what we want.  But finding alignment, and planning for success, isn’t a given.  And that’s where this podcast comes in. Judy Garfinkel, an executive coach and President of ICF Connecticut Chapter, sits with Angela and Sergey, to discuss what she has learnt in her career about how to seek alignment and plan for success. 
-----Music credits: Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes

In the previous episode, you learned about the inner reasons why people don't develop. Those were all the psychological barriers that keep us in the comfort zone. This episode is about the external factors that will either speed up or slow down your personal growth. Listen in to find out how aligning yourself to the job, to people around you, and to the organizational culture is a leverage point to unlock your development.
 
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Music credits: Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes