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Exit Interview Questions: How to Surface Critical Insights from Departing Employees
In a perfect world, exit interview questions would be unnecessary. You would hire great talent, they would grow with your organization, and you would benefit from mutual support throughout the relationship. If there was a problem, it would be obvious and clearly communicated. Sadly, we don’t live in that fictional world. Problems occur. Mismanagement happens. […]
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Using a Goal-Setting Template: Tips and Benefits
Using a goal-setting template can help improve your performance management efforts. If you’ve been trying to effectively communicate how employees can improve their performance, you’ll find that setting actionable, clear-cut goals ensures that everyone is on the same page. However, you’ll need to use the right tools to communicate those goals. Goal-setting templates offer ease […]
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Your Guide to Running a One-on-One Meeting
A one-on-one meeting might just be what you need to improve your managerial game. Want to do more in terms of employee development and performance management? Not sure how to do that? There’s good news. Managers and leaders today have access to far more tools than old-school annual performance reviews (and more effective tools, too). […]
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Commission and Pay-for-Performance Compensation Models: Do They Belong in the Future of Performance Management?
For years, sales positions have often been offered with a commission and/or bonus structure—the more you sell, the more you can earn. It’s a good enough incentive for many salespeople to work harder and acquire more business on behalf of the organization. However, in today’s post-COVID economy where everyone is still feeling the effects of […]
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Balancing Employee Culture: Somewhere Between Fear and Fun Lies the Perfect Formula
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions out there about workplace culture these days. Company culture is more than a buzzword. While it’s been under fire recently because of the Great Resignation, it’s also been an integral part of organizations for as long as they have existed. Creating the right culture depends on sifting […]
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How To Increase Accountability and Engagement in Performance Management
Performance management is a critical asset for businesses. It allows managers to track performance and see which employees are doing well, along with those that may need a little assistance. It can also help determine which processes are working and which need some tweaking. Of course, if you do it right, your performance management strategy […]
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Eight Steps to Create a New Performance Management Plan for Your Organization
Companies are faced with more changes than ever these days—every single one was forced into proving its agility when the pandemic shut everything down, and each was tested to see how they would continue to perform during the shutdown. Then, it was a wait to see which companies faltered and which ones came out the […]
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The Transition from Keeping Score to Creating a Feedback Culture with Your Performance Management Goals
Metrics are great—they tell companies several different things that help them make effective decisions. However, there are some areas where metrics are going by the wayside, particularly when it comes to people management. After all, these are people, not machines or numbers. Therefore, modern organizations that want to embrace a performance management culture will need […]
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What Is 360-Degree Feedback, and Should It Be Part of Your Performance Management Strategy?
The feedback process has been up for debate and discussion for some time now. Several organizations are embracing various digital tools to help them transform the process and figure out how to improve performance management by improving feedback and how it is delivered, interpreted, and responded to, by employees and managers alike. 360-degree feedback is […]
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Companies That Are Leading the Way in Redefining Performance Management
Like many things, performance management is an area where sometimes information is best gleaned by example. Organizations can read all about the new world of PM and how it impacts their current strategy, as well as how, in theory, it will revolutionize the company culture. However, they’re not seeing it in practice. They don’t have […]
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Five Big Warnings as Organizations Take Performance Management to the Digital Space
As the future of performance management looks to more flexibility, more focus on development, and more continuity, it’s also going to be more data-driven and yet somehow, less data-focused. While that might sound like a catch-22, it’s actually a simple transition that’s taking place—while data-driven performance management initiatives are pushed, organizations will start to focus […]
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Making Diversity and Inclusion Your First Order of Business as a New HR Leader
Walking into a new organization with big dreams and ideas is always a balancing act—you want to make sure that you deliver on your promises while also living up to the needs and expectations of the organization that has brought you on board. For new HR leaders, it’s critical to identify the best way to […]
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