Agile Performance Management
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Shared Context: The Key Ingredient for Success Your Business Is Missing
What’s the point of your business? Why does it exist? Many of you will probably answer “to make money”. That’s not enough. Not enough by a long shot. For an organization to thrive, profit cannot be the primary reason it exists. To achieve success, your business must exist to do something good for someone other […]
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Creating a Company Culture That Resonates Across Geographic Boundaries
Creating a successful company requires more than having the right product or service. You need the right people at the helm and in every other position in the firm. In the past, recruitment followed the “scattergun” approach, with the idea being the more applicants you screened, the better the chance you’d hire the right person. […]
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Key Considerations for Manager Development
People are the key to your business’s success. It’s as simple as that. However, you must have a way to manage those people, to direct and guide them. Your managers and team leaders are, therefore, some of the most critical individuals. Sadly, most managers are ineffective or not trusted by their teams to lead them […]
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Strengths-Based Management and Its Impact on Employee Performance
Managing employee performance was once seen as a relatively punitive process. If employees met expectations, they were rewarded. If they were just toeing the line, they got a pat on the back. If they didn’t meet expectations, they were written up and given a warning that they needed to shape up or ship out. That […]
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6 Tips to Help Show Your Team They Are Appreciated
We all like to feel appreciated. We want those in our lives to be thankful for our efforts. When someone takes us for granted, we resent it. It creates feelings frustration, and may even lead to us not doing whatever it is that’s being taken for granted. This applies not just in our personal lives, […]
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Performance Management Checkins
The Keys to Having Successful One-on-Ones
Managing employee performance has never been more critical. And yet, it has also never been more challenging. That’s particularly true for those organizations still stuck with annual performance reviews. However, even forward-thinking businesses that now follow the check-in and one-on-one performance management model can find it challenging. The key here is to realize that one-on-ones […]
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The Power of Gratitude and Its Impact On Workplace Performance
Gratitude – it’s something that we’re accustomed to thinking about in our personal lives. However, what about our professional lives? What role does gratitude have in the workplace? Actually, it’s a powerful force that can lead to many positive outcomes, including a boost to workplace performance. Below, we’ll explore what you need to know. What […]
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Critical Tips for Helping Teams Transition to a Remote Workplace
Remote work is a natural response to the spread of COVID-19. However, it will be around long after the virus has been tamed. Shifting to a remote team offers quite a few benefits, ranging from giving employees a chance to create a flexible schedule to dealing with the repercussions of things like power outages or […]
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How to Create the Best Place to Work: Performance Management and Architecting the Environment
When you think of performance management, you likely imagine annual performance reviews. Of course, you might be more forward-thinking, in which case you think about sit-down, one-on-one meetings held every quarter. However, do you think about the workplace environment? Do you think about the role of enjoyment in employee performance? Probably not, but you should. […]
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Questions to Ask Your Remote Workers During 1-on-1s
Remote workers have become part and parcel of the modern workplace thanks to COVID-19. However, that situation will be slow to resolve – look for some component of your teams to remain remote indefinitely moving forward. That offers quite a few benefits for both organizations and employees, but it also presents some unique challenges when […]
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