Tools for High-Performing Teams
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Understanding Peer Reviews and Their Place in Performance Management
For decades, performance management reviews involved just two people. You had the manager and the employee. The manager would speak, and the employee would listen. If necessary, they might ask questions, but the information flowed just one way – from the top down. Peer reviews were never part of that process! Today, things are changing. […]
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How to Align Performance Management with Business Strategy
Performance management is vital. Whether you are still using annual reviews or your organization is using the continual coaching model, managing employee performance is the only way to ensure that they receive the feedback required to optimize their performance. However, it’s not enough to make sure that each employee is doing his or her job […]
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Is Your Performance Management System Broken?
The goal of performance management is to support employees in optimizing their on-the-job performance. It’s all about helping them be the best they can be and providing them with the tools, training, and knowledge necessary to achieve key targets and objectives. However, if your performance management system isn’t really doing that, it may be broken. […]
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Why Performance Management Should Be Coupled with Ongoing Learning and Development
Performance management and learning and development (L&D) might, at first glance, seem to be unusual bedfellows. However, they are two sides of the same coin. You cannot manage performance if you’re unable to provide your employees and team members with the tools, knowledge, and skills necessary to improve their performance. You’re not going to see […]
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Key Metrics to Consider When Measuring Employee Success
Performance management has changed a lot over the years. It has gone from a largely punitive process that focuses on criticizing employee performance during annual reviews to one that focuses on using ongoing conversation and coaching to support performance. And, because your company is only as good as the talent that supports it, you must […]
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Where Is the ‘Carrot and Stick’ in Today’s Performance Management Methodology?
How do you get employees to do their jobs? How do you encourage a worker to hit key goals and objectives? How do you ensure that your team is motivated to push harder and achieve more? In the past, this involved what’s called the “carrot and stick” approach. Carrot – The carrot was a reward […]
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Critical Tips for Ensuring Employee Engagement through Learning and Development
Employee engagement is a critical consideration for organizations of all sizes. Regardless of your industry or niche, if your employees are not engaged, they will be less happy and less productive, deliver lower rates of customer satisfaction and even stay with your firm for shorter periods. Employee Engagement by the Numbers To truly understand the […]
