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Performance Management Systems
How to Use a PMS to Assess the Efficiency of Remote Workers
In our current work environment, many employees have made the switch to remote work. During the initial phases of the COVID outbreak, many organizations were forced to shut down, leading to many employees performing homebound work. Things still haven’t shifted back to their original setting, and it looks like the remote worker trend will continue. […]
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Getting Rid of the “9 to 5” with Remote Work: Does Flexible Scheduling Suit Your Organization?
How many organizations see people sitting at their desks, idly watching the time pass, waiting until that magical 5 o’clock hour so that they can clock out and go home? This isn’t effective, or efficient, for anyone. It’s a waste of time and resources, honestly, and if the pandemic has taught businesses anything, it’s that […]
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How Do You Keep Remote Workers Involved and Engaged?
The pandemic has forced many businesses into a new way of working, where employees are no longer physically present for most or all of their jobs. While this is an exciting change that can provide more freedom, it also means that companies need to find ways to keep their remote workforce engaged and feeling connected […]
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Biases That Can Affect Managing a Remote Workforce
Remote work is the future. Following the Coronavirus pandemic, more workforces are working remotely now than ever. Some are entirely remote, some are only partly remote, but no matter your organization’s individual situation, you need to know how to efficiently manage distributed team members. Here, we will go over some of the top biases that […]
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Ways To Make Sure Your Remote Workers Stay Connected
Remote work is the new normal. Even after the pandemic, many organizations are choosing to allow their employees to remain working remotely, or at least enabling them to work from home part of the time. Remote work has been seen to have a number of advantages for organizations. Namely increased productivity. But if remote workers […]
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Key Challenges to Remote Worker Development
Performance management (PM) and learning and development (L&D) are inextricably linked. They are two sides of the same situation – developing workers and ensuring that they are living up to their potential. Often, performance management is really the process whereby managers discover the gaps in an employee’s skillset and then L&D is the process where […]
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Virtual Happy Hour Is Dead: New Team-Building Options for the Remote Work Age
The pandemic and ensuing shift toward remote work made 2020 a difficult year. However, most teams have learned to cope with their new normal, and many people no longer face the same challenges when it comes to working remotely. That does not mean there are no issues, though. Team-building remains a critical challenge for pandemic-stricken […]
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Remote Work Is Here to Stay and Here’s How It Will Affect Performance Management
The changes COVID-19 has introduced to the world are immense. One of the most significant is the shift toward remote work. And, while some of the changes the pandemic created will fade over time, remote work is here to stay. That promises some interesting effects for performance management. Is It Really Our Permanent New Normal? […]
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How to Thrive as a Remote Company
You could be forgiven for thinking that we’d be back to life as normal by this point. Most of us were under that impression. However, COVID-19 seems to have other plans, and amid rapidly accelerating cases across the US, even companies that had started to return to the office are once more going remote. The […]
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Remote Work Policy: Designing for Success in the New Normal
At some point, we will stop saying “new normal”, but that time is not now. Too many organizations are still reeling from the impact of the pandemic. Too many leaders are still struggling to come to grips with the remote work world in which they now find themselves. The first step in coming to grips […]
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Ensuring Accountability in Remote Work Situations: A How-To Guide
While many businesses have started to bring a limited number of employees back to their offices, remote work is going to remain the norm for the majority of employees and employers. While you might have been able to “tough it out” thus far without any formal strategy for ensuring that everything goes smoothly, chances are […]
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HR Leadership and Management Tips for a Remote World
A lot has been written about managing remote teams, but what about HR? The HR department has had to evolve considerably in the last few months to face the number of novel challenges forced on us by COVID-19. From hiring to employee performance management to learning and development initiatives, HR has had to become more […]
