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The shift to values-driven performance management
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Enabling performance is about growing not just your employees but yourself, says Chris Eigeland, Chief Revenue Officer of Go1 in an interview with People Matters By Asmaani Kumar
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hris Eigeland co-founded Go1 and is its Chief Revenue Officer. He is responsible for global revenue attainment, including sales function management, and maintaining relationships with partners and affiliates. Chris obtained a degree in Law and International Relations from Griffith University, and has worked extensively in international relations and law, representing Australia at the United Nations General Assembly in 2016, as a National Commissioner for UNESCO, and working in constitutional law in the UK and South Africa. In an exclusive interaction with People Matters, Eigeland points out key strategies for | FEBRUARY 2022
performance enablement and elevating the employee experience as businesses continue to operate with a distributed workforce.
As the workspace becomes increasingly digital, what are the key challenges when it comes to driving productivity among your employees? Communication flow has always been challenging – those conversations when everyone gets together at the office, or as you walk past
someone’s desk … sometimes these serendipitous moments can drive immense collaboration and innovation. But as our office has shifted to Slack, Zoom, Teams and email, there is real risk of the communication burden growing exponentially. A record number of Slack messages and emails are flying around on a daily basis and it’s often hard to decipher important content. We’ll need to adapt our communication style and
Values-driven performance management will become even more important – forcing time-poor managers to pause and consider the drivers behind behaviours vs just the behaviour itself
