Tools for High-Performing Teams
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Six Tips to Transform Company Culture
What is culture when it comes to businesses? It is often hard to pin down, and if you were to ask 10 different executives, you would likely receive 10 different answers. Everyone knows that culture is critical to success, but we cannot seem to agree on what it is, much less how it affects a […]
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Tips and Tricks for Success with OKRs
Objectives and key results (OKRs) provide the foundation for business success. Still, setting appropriate OKRs can be more than a little challenging. When done correctly, they can drive performance, support engagement, empower employees, and focus teams on outcomes. However, when implemented incorrectly, organizations won’t see those benefits. It can cause damage to morale and engagement. […]
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Understanding Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Their Impact on Business Success
To be successful, businesses must be able to manage and track performance. While there are many ways to do that, one of the most powerful models is objectives and key results (OKRs). Deceptively simple, it requires just four steps: Defining the objectives quarterly Implementing tools to measure progress toward objectives Communication with team members A […]
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How to Maximize the Value of Your One-on-Ones
Few performance management tools offer the value, traction, and transformative power of the humble one-on-one. Sure, they’re brief. They’re informal. They’re focused more on conversation than they are on structured teaching. However, for all that, the one-on-one is your real chance to foster true change in employees. Because of that, you must get it right. […]
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Performance Management Trends to Watch in 2021
Performance management is not static. In fact, it’s evolving at an ever-faster pace. Even the impact of 2020 hasn’t been enough to halt change. As a decision-maker, you must be able to keep up with those changes. They inform how you manage employee performance, how you interact with team members, how team members interact with […]
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The Art of Giving Employee Feedback: Tips for Managers to Improve Performance
PM isn’t what it once was. Not that long ago, you might have met with each employee once or twice per year, provided them with a list of complaints (and maybe a couple of compliments) about their performance, and then expected them to act on those. Today, things have changed a lot. Gone is the […]
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Ensuring Accountability in Remote Work Situations: A How-To Guide
While many businesses have started to bring a limited number of employees back to their offices, remote work is going to remain the norm for the majority of employees and employers. While you might have been able to “tough it out” thus far without any formal strategy for ensuring that everything goes smoothly, chances are […]
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HR Leadership and Management Tips for a Remote World
A lot has been written about managing remote teams, but what about HR? The HR department has had to evolve considerably in the last few months to face the number of novel challenges forced on us by COVID-19. From hiring to employee performance management to learning and development initiatives, HR has had to become more […]
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How to Solicit Feedback from Employees: A Manager Self-Improvement Guide
Once, feedback was only seen as offering value when it flowed downward. Today, we understand the folly of that idea. To be successful, managers need coaching just as much as employees. However, it can be challenging for managers to ask for feedback. Whom do you ask? What do you ask them for? What questions should […]
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Emotion Identification: A Key Skill Required for Successful Coaches
For managers to become coaches and move your performance management into the 21st century, they need to master a wide range of skills. They need to become adept at checking in with employees regularly. They need to move away from the carrot/stick mindset and towards one of innovation and communication. However, while those are important […]
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How to Keep Your Teams Healthy in a Remote World
When we talk about health these days, COVID-19 is the assumed focus of the discussion. Sadly, that means many other issues go undiscussed and unnoticed. A critical part of modern performance management is ensuring that your people are healthy enough to perform their duties in the first place. That means doing more than just providing […]
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Tips to Deliver Better Remote One-on-Ones
It can be easy to feel like COVID-19 has turned the world on its ear. That’s particularly true when it comes to managers and their ability to coach their teams. One-on-ones are vastly more effective than traditional performance management tactics in terms of engendering real behavior change, improving employee engagement, and foster real, lasting change […]
