How Does Employee Engagement Affect Performance?
Are happy employees engaged employees? Truthfully, it doesn’t matter (to performance) if your team is happy or not. It is…
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Do Your Employees Have a Case of the Quits?
Even the best of the best and the high performing employees are subject to the hazards of the workplace that…
6 Surefire Ways to Conduct the Worst Performance Appraisal Ever
Everyone makes mistakes, including during performance reviews. Despite the fact they are supposed to help solve issues in the workplace,…
How to Improve Employee Performance in 4 Steps
The performance appraisal. Love it? Hate it? Honestly, when it comes to employee performance there really isn’t any other way to…
Should Employee Performance be Judged on a Bell Curve?
The common practice of professional “grading on the Bell Curve” does little to improve employee performance. In fact, it does…
Why Performance Management Requires Leadership
You can’t have a performance management system without someone that oversees the everyday happenings around the office. However, just because the organization’s…
How Should I Prepare My Team for a 360 Degree Feedback Session?
Effective performance reviews include everyone, especially the evaluated employee. A 360 degree feedback looks at an employee from all angles (as the…
Change Your Thinking Re: Performance Management
Employers have a large foothold in the employee development process. Performance reviews are a must for the health of your…
How Starting a 360 Degree Feedback Process Improves Performance
Nearly 90% of organizations conduct formal performance reviews [1] as an attempt to improve their performance management. That is the…
6 Ways Great Leaders Conduct an Effective Performance Appraisal
As a supervisor, there are some tasks that are less than enjoyable. More often than not, the employee performance appraisal…
3 Steps You Should Take Before the Next Round of Performance Reviews
Supervisors need performance appraisals and so do employees, if not for the direct impact to drive business, at least for…
Why Performance Management Works Better When the Process is Automated
The process of instilling a sense of urgency about performance is sometimes a difficult task. Many organizations struggle to get…
Dealing with Your Employees Effectively
Perhaps the most overlooked dimension of managing people is the understanding of what motivates people and what satisfies people about…
Conduct Effective Performance Reviews
There is an age old process conducted in most organizations, large and small, known as performance review or performance appraisal…
Understanding the Way Minds Work: Think Like a CLO
If you could reduce a good performance management system down to ONE element (hint: you can’t), it would be the…
How to Keep Track of Organizational Goals with Performance Management
Some people make lists, others put sticky notes on their computer screen, and many simply fly by the seat of…
How to Grow Part 3: Rethink Annual Performance Appraisals
It’s 1:53 pm, which means Adam has 7 minutes to prepare for his annual performance appraisal. He was so busy…
How to Grow Part 2: Compensation Motivation
There are a wide variety of compensation plans in the corporate world, but if you’re a startup which one is…
How to Grow Part 1: Performance Management in 3… 2…
“Only 6% believe their current process for managing performance is worth the time, 58% called their process ‘weak,’ with North American companies…
Happy Holidays? Not if You Forget Your Employees
It’s the only time of year that it’s acceptable to give a fruitcake. Complete with hot cocoa, stockings hung with…
The Million-Dollar Performance Review Question
If there’s such a thing as a million-dollar question that managers should ask employees during a performance review, it’s this:…