Michael Sabbag

I once worked with an executive team that thought they were aligned. Every meeting ran smoothly. When the COO spoke, heads nodded. Decisions got made quickly. On the surface, it looked like a high-functioning team. But after the meetings, the hallway conversations told a different story. Executives were privately questioning the risks of decisions to which they had just publicly agreed. People felt they couldn't voice a different point of view during the meeting. And when eve

$1.2 million. That's what broken performance management was costing us every year. Not in consultant fees. Not in HR overhead. In turnover. When I became the SVP of Talent at Learn.com , the company didn’t have a performance management process. Some managers met with their employees regularly. Some never did. There were no annual reviews or structured conversations on development. But people were leaving. Constantly. And when we dug into the exit data, the story was painful a

Most organizations are training their people. Very few are actually developing them. Here's the difference and why it matters more than you may realize. Training is an event. You get people into a room (or webinar), deliver content, check the box, and move on. It has its place, but it's transactional. It doesn’t matter if it’s a one-off session, part of a program, that you have participants in a cohort, or they are told to go to a class. When done the traditional way, it trea

So why is it so difficult to identify our strengths? For one, people often doubt what they know. They are so wrapped up in the emotion of pe

Much of what is written today has to deal with leveraging your strengths. However, being that we are human, we have weaknesses in certain ar

One factor that is critical in order for people to perform is tools and resources they need to effectively and efficiently do their job. In

Have you ever seen a star performer hired just to flounder where you work? In this post, Michael discuss the environment factor and how it i

What role does ones talent play in their performance. And how does that impact their perceived fit? In this post, Michael defines this facto

What separates an exemplary performer from an average one? In this post, Michael discusses the 7 Factors Model he created to help drive perf

How many times have people constrained themselves with rules that don't really exist? We tend to carry over expectations from other activiti