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How to Write a Self-Evaluation that Highlights Your Strengths
Throughout your employment with your company, you will need to know how to write a self-evaluation to bring to your performance reviews with your boss. This usually happens annually—you and your manager will discuss your performance and will reflect critically on your contributions to your position and the company. If you want your successes to […]
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How to Calculate Retention Rate for Your Company
Knowing how to calculate the retention rate of employees is one of the most important ways that a company can gauge how happy its employees are and how well the business serves the needs of its team members. When employees are satisfied, respected, and valued (and when they know this), they are more likely to […]
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Stay Interview Questions You Should Be Asking at Your Company
Stay interviews are a crucial tool to keep employees happy and engaged, but only if you are asking the right stay interview questions. Stay interviews have a similar structure to exit interviews – except stay interviews help companies get ahead of turnover. When conducting an exit interview, it’s valuable to gain insight as to why […]
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How To Implement Continuous Performance Management at Your Company
A lot of organizations never take the time to consider whether singular annual performance reviews are the best way to keep employees on track. Instead, many companies simply follow an annual performance management cycle since that is what has always been in place. In both cases, the issue is that employee loss can occur since […]
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Managing Up – How to Do It and Why It’s Important
If you’ve ever had to deal with a difficult situation in the workplace caused or aggravated by a supervisor or boss, you may have been “managing up” to navigate through those circumstances. Most people who have spent any amount of time working might remember a time in which they were dealing with a difficult job […]
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What Is a Change Management Plan?
When we hear the words change management plan, each of us responds differently. While some of us will be eager to participate in the new processes, others won’t. A change management strategy should offer a thorough road map and all the resources necessary to help your staff effectively adapt to the new way of working, […]
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Continuous Performance Improvement
Tips for Shifting to Continuous Performance Management
In today’s fast-moving world, talent management professionals often recommend the implementation of continuous performance management. This is the most efficient alternative to annual performance reviews, which are associated with a host of downfalls. Even if you have already decided to implement continuous performance management, you may not be sure where to start. Conversations about making […]
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Best Leadership TED Talks for Growth and Development
A surefire way to develop your managerial skills today is by listening to the best leadership TED Talks. In case you’ve been living under a rock this last decade or so and don’t know what TED Talks are, here’s a rundown. TED stands for technology, entertainment, and design. TED is a nonprofit organization that’s mission […]
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The Key Objectives of Performance Management
Annual performance reviews have been the norm for a long time. Traditionally, organizations worldwide, both large and small, conduct annual performance reviews as part of their performance management regime. But recently, many corporations have paved the way in getting rid of the traditional performance review format. In 2012, leading software company Adobe did away with […]
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Benefits of Zoom Ice Breakers
For many of us, the mention of Zoom ice breakers brings a collective groan. Ice breakers seem dated and a bit forced, especially when we just want the meeting to start. There is a benefit to ice breakers, though. Actually, there are several. And there is a way to pull off ice breakers that doesn’t […]
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Self-Assessments and Employee Self-Evaluation Sample Answers
Coming up with employee self-evaluation sample answers can be a great way to get a better sense of how to respond when doing self-assessments. Most people have gone through manager inspections and evaluations before, but they don’t necessarily evaluate themselves very often. However, knowing how to do this as an employee could be one of […]
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What You Need to Know About Professional Development Goals
Naturally, you want your team to thrive, just as you want the rest of the organization to succeed, and professional development goals will help. However, you also have to stop a moment and think about what success means to you and your employees. What is it that you want to achieve? It can’t be some […]
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