Derek Irvine
Member Since: 20th Mar 2008
Derek is a seasoned, internationally minded management professional with over 20 years of experience working across a diverse range of industries. During his career he has lived in many countries including Spain, France, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, UK and the USA.
Derek also heads up the marketing, communications, product development and rewards teams at Globoforce, building a product that is industry leading, with a rewards portfolio that is now the most global and largest rewards selection in the industry today.
In his role as a thought leader at Globoforce, Derek helps clients set a higher ambition for global strategic employee recognition, leading consultative workshops and strategy setting meetings with such global organizations as Avnet, P&G, Dow Chemical, Intel, Intuit, KPMG and Reuters. An authority on the topics of employee engagement and recognition, he has been a guest speaker at worldwide industry and professional group conferences.
My discussion replies
Have you considered using strategic recognition as a means of 360 degree appraisal? In such a program, all employees are encouraged to notice, appreciate and formally recognize the actions and behaviours of colleagues who demonstrate the company values in achievement of strategic objectives. By encouraging peers and managers to notice and acknowledge stellar efforts of colleagues, strategic recognition programs offer one of the most positive ways of implementing a 360°, ongoing performance review mechanism in which anyone in the organization can comment on the contributions and effectiveness of their teammates.
These “recognition assessments” and kudos can then be used during the annual performance review as an additional data point on the strengths (John has been recognized repeatedly for innovation) and even weaknesses (but John has been recognized only once for teamwork) as potential areas of improvement. This presents a much more rounded view of an employee's contributions of which managers may not even be aware. Moreover, since such a strategic recognition program is deployed company-wide, data can be gathered and used to benchmark an individual’s performance and demonstration of values in their work against direct peers, team members, the division and even the company as whole.
More on this approach is available here: http://globoforce.blogspot.com/2008/12/actionable-division-performance-r...