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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 performance 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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Five Tips for Performance Management Success in the Struggling Foodservice Industry
Of all the industries impacted by the pandemic, customer service, retail, and foodservice were by far the most impacted. Millions of workers were lost, either due to COVID or because they resigned from their jobs due to poor pay or conditions. The Great Resignation has shifted the world of work as we know it. For […]
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Filling Employment and Skills Gaps: Knowing When to Hire and When to Promote from Within
Companies today are finding themselves short-handed in all kinds of ways. Some organizations are going weeks, and even months, without managers, supervisors, or other important roles filled properly, causing others to pick up the slack. If an organization has done that, well, it will become clear that instead of looking for a new person to […]
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The Future of Performance Management: Predictions from the Experts
Performance management has come a long way in just the past few years. Companies have been forced to stop just checking the boxes and start to actually pay attention to performance. Along with that comes an increased focus on how to handle performance management both now and into the future. It’s about more than productivity […]
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Flex Scheduling and Performance Improvement: Helping Teams Thrive Through Trust and Accountability
When the pandemic shuttered businesses and sent everyone home, it created a huge wave in the world of work for both companies and employees. People who had spent the past 10, 20, or even 25 years going to the office every day, heading into their second-shift factory maintenance job, or working in customer-facing positions in […]
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Common Problems in Performance Management and How to Fix Them
Performance management is a hot topic right now. It’s also an area where several businesses could use a little help. In today’s working world, organizations and employees alike are struggling to manage performance or figure out how to do so effectively, with the changing nature of business operations. The worst is when employers feel like […]
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How to Create a Job Listing That Attracts Top Performers
Performance management starts at the hiring phase. Too often, companies don’t realize that they need to be worried about attracting the “right people” for a position. They simply create a job listing, or use their HR-approved template listing, and put it out there for all to see. Unfortunately, if the listing itself doesn’t take a […]
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Performance Management in Education: How Student Performance Impacts Educator Assessments
The world of performance management is changing the way things are done in the education sector. Many people are looking at PM in relation to students, with respect to how the inclusion of performance management principles might change the traditional grading structure. However, it’s also important to apply the new practices of performance management in […]
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