So this is interesting. Sitting in on a session with the title of the above, one would think that it would be delivered by an impartial individual from someplace like Gartner or the like. Alas, not. It was delivered by Mark Albrecht, a clearly knowledgable chap from Salary.com. But this seems to me to be a significant conflict. As Salary.com is now a competitor in the performance management space, its the equivalent of having a representative of Coke giving a speech on selecting a cola.

With that said, Mark worked very hard to be impartial and did a good job of it. He had some real wisdom to offer including his myths of selecting performance management software.

Here is an article Mark wrote last year that speaks to some of those myths and discusses Textron’s effort to evaluate and pay for performance.