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Onboarding with an Eye Toward Performance: Performance Management Begins with Hiring
For many managers, performance management becomes a consideration well after an employee is hired and completes the onboarding process. That seems to make sense, too. After all, it is hard to manage performance before an employee has had time to adjust to their new role within the organization, the workflows in place, and the tools […]
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Shifting the Performance Management Mindset to Lifecycle Management
As a leader, you must have the right mindset to manage employees. Traditionally, that has been a performance management mindset – the focus on improving and then maintaining performance over time. However, while performance is one of the more important elements, it is just one of many. Increasingly, it is becoming important for management to […]
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Driving Collaboration: Improving Performance Across an Organization
Collaboration – the art of working together seamlessly to create something more than the sum of its parts. It’s something of the holy grail for all organizations, and it can be incredibly challenging to achieve. Without collaboration, your teams are just disparate parts of the organization, working toward different ends. With it, though, they become […]
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The Link Between Employee Wellness and Improved Performance
Discussions surrounding employee performance almost invariably lead back to ideas like accountability and engagement. Autonomy, trust, and communication – are essential factors, too. However, there is one metric that affects performance many leaders overlook: wellness. The connection between employee wellness and improved performance may seem tenuous at first, but the truth is that there is […]
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Personal Development and Performance Management: The Connection You’re Not Making
Managing employee performance is critical to business success. However, that is a one-way view that often delivers lopsided results. When managers attempt to coach employees simply based on their value to the organization, it neglects a crucial fact – team members are more than just employees. They’re whole individuals. They have their own wants, likes, […]
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Drive Performance Improvement with Better Clarity of Expectations
When you think of performance management, chances are good you picture an annual sit-down between a manager and an employee. They discuss what the employee did wrong in the past year, what they might have done right, and what the company expects of them moving forward. It’s a pretty negative situation overall, which is one […]
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People Management Simplified: Tips to Create a More Successful Operation
Performance management would be better termed “people management”. That’s because you’re not managing performance in a purely mechanical sense. These aren’t machines we’re talking about that provide a simple output based on a known input. Human beings don’t work that way. We’re messy. We’re complex. We’re convoluted. People management is what you’re really doing, and […]
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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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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, what do you think about the workplace environment? Do you think about the role of enjoyment as one of the performance management techniques […]
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Reimagining SMART Goal-Setting for Performance Management
Managing employee performance has never been easy. That’s clear from the fact that so many companies are abandoning the outmoded annual performance review model. Instead, they are moving to a more direct performance management model that allows them to provide actionable, relevant, timely feedback so that employees can make course corrections in real time. With […]
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Understanding the Performance Development Process
Performance management has taken some hard knocks in recent years. Many organizations have eliminated mainstays like annual performance evaluations. In fact, there is a shift away from performance “management” and toward performance “development.” The change in nomenclature underscores a change in perception and understanding of management and in terms of employee expectations. Not sure what […]
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Why Your Current Performance Management Is Not Working
Performance management is supposed to help you develop your team. It’s intended to pinpoint areas of improvement and help you provide the feedback necessary so that employees can grow and develop. So, why is your process isn’t working? What factors are causing performance management failings? You’re not alone. Performance management fails pretty often, sadly. What […]
