You excel at your job but you get overlooked for promotion, while those colleagues who are willing to 'play the game' pass you by on the career ladder.

Sounds familiar? What can you do about it?

Do you have to sell your soul, or are there other ways to overcome this injustice? Don't management see that they are promoting less competent people and are wasting great potential?
Or is there another explanation?

Our punks address these sticky questions and provide their usual spin on it.

Have you experienced this conundrum too? Or perhaps you have better advice? Do get in touch and let us know!

Most companies above a certain size have some sort of standardised appraisal process, often to be carried out on an annual basis. It involves a template (or app) containing many questions to be answered, ratings to be handed out, percentages-completed to be filled in, you know the drill. And we all dread it, both managers and employees alike. So why do it? Just to get it over with? Or should we fight it, to get it changed into something useful? Listen to this episode on what our Punks think of it.

How do you deal with team members who have been trusted to deliver but are not performing to the required standard?

That is the question our Punks are debating on this episode. Should you abandon your empowering management style and come down on them like the proverbial ton of bricks? Or could there be good reasons why your staff are underperforming? We give you our usual orginal and irreverent perspectives, drawing upon our own experiences as managers, consultants and coaches.