Tools for High-Performing Teams
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Performance Management Systems: Structuring Your Check-Ins
Today’s performance management systems barely resemble their predecessors. Gone is the carrot and stick mentality that doled out rewards with one hand while threatening punishments with the other. Largely gone, too, are the annual performance reviews – those dreaded once or twice-a-year sit-downs with management during which employees usually got to learn how much of […]
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Where Is the ‘Carrot and Stick’ in Today’s Performance Management Methodology?
How do you get employees to do their jobs? How do you encourage a worker to hit key goals and objectives? How do you ensure that your team is motivated to push harder and achieve more? In the past, this involved what’s called the “carrot and stick” approach. Carrot – The carrot was a reward […]
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Modern Employee Reviews: What to Cover and What to Ignore
Annual performance reviews – we all hate them. It’s time that we admitted that. Managers and team members alike loathe these impersonal, virtually worthless goads designed to punish employees for not reaching arbitrary goals. Those are harsh words, but they’re deserved. And the deep truth in them is why the annual performance review is dying […]
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Performance Management and Goal Setting: A How-To Guide
The entire point of performance management is to help grow your team members. To build a successful team that can help your organization thrive. Performance reviews are critical tools that enable you to achieve that, but you must be able to set goals for performance improvement. Of course, setting goals can be challenging. They need […]
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Creating Performance Incentives That Really Matter to Your Team
Wouldn’t it be nice if the same thing motivated everyone? If that were true, you could simply offer everyone a raise, and they’d perform at their peak. They’d immediately address issues with their performance and commit to doing better. Of course, we don’t live in that world. Your team members are diverse. They come from […]
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Peer Reviews: Understanding Their Role in Modern Performance Management
The annual performance review is finally dying out. It has been replaced by modern performance management methods like check-ins and creating a two-way flow of conversation. Peer reviews can also be powerful tools that help to increase performance and build traction, but for many leaders and decision-makers, their role in modern performance management is a […]
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How Much Collaboration Is Really Necessary between Remote Teams?
Remote work has become the norm rather than the exception. That’s thanks in large part to the novel coronavirus that affected the planet. However, it’s also the logical conclusion to ongoing trends before the rise of COVID-19. With that being said, it’s a new world today, and more people are finding that they’re required to […]
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Performance Management Tips and Tricks in a Social Distanced World
Performance management is an ongoing and essential process. Without it, your team may fail to hit specific targets, and the organization could suffer. It also means that your employees will be unable to develop and grow. However, what happens to performance management during a pandemic like COVID-19? Does it get paused? Does the remote nature […]
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Critical Tips for Ensuring Employee Engagement through Learning and Development
Employee engagement is a critical consideration for organizations of all sizes. Regardless of your industry or niche, if your employees are not engaged, they will be less happy and less productive, deliver lower rates of customer satisfaction and even stay with your firm for shorter periods. Employee Engagement by the Numbers To truly understand the […]
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Key Factors in Modern Performance Management
Performance management – they are two of the most dreaded words in the workplace. They conjure up images of impersonal annual performance reviews where leaders do nothing but focus on what someone did wrong. The good news is that performance management is changing, and today, it’s very different from what it once was. Of course, […]
