Tools for High-Performing Teams
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Employee Accountability within the Performance Management Process
It’s challenging to attract, retain, and develop the right talent to support organization-wide success. However, even with all that hard work, sometimes employees are unable to perform at the level you require. The good news is that accountability, when combined with support and a modern approach to performance management, can yield substantial improvements. Bringing Accountability […]
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Driving Improved Employee Performance: The Role of Mindfulness
Improving employee performance can be a frustrating process. Gone are the days when an annual performance review and a threat of punitive action could scare employees into working harder. Today, leaders understand that driving improved employee performance requires a commitment to ongoing communication, skills development and growth, and providing the support employees need to do […]
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The Biggest Leadership Mistakes That Affect Employee Performance
In the world of performance management, a lot of focus is placed on the employee. That’s understandable. However, you cannot overlook the role that leaders play here. Explore how eLeaP®’s Performance Management Platform can simplify evaluations, boost productivity, and drive measurable results. Leadership mistakes can have a dramatic effect on employee performance. Where the right steps can […]
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Drive Employee Feedback with the Right Questions
As a business leader, your goal is to build a thriving organization, just as much as it is to serve your customers or clients. In fact, without a healthy, growing company, it becomes impossible to achieve your mission of delivering the right products or services to your audience. In the quest to create that organization, […]
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The Key to Manager Effectiveness: Self-Awareness
As a manager, you must be able to work with employees to improve their performance. One way to do that is through one-on-one meetings, but your effectiveness here may be hampered. If you lack self-awareness of your own strengths and weaknesses, it becomes impossible to provide guidance and help employees develop and become their best […]
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How to Maximize the Value of Your One-on-Ones
Few performance management tools offer the value, traction, and transformative power of the humble one-on-one. Sure, they’re brief. They’re informal. They’re focused more on conversation than they are on structured teaching. However, for all that, the one-on-one is your real chance to foster true change in employees. Because of that, you must get it right. […]
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The Art of Giving Employee Feedback: Tips for Managers to Improve Performance
PM isn’t what it once was. Not that long ago, you might have met with each employee once or twice per year, provided them with a list of complaints (and maybe a couple of compliments) about their performance, and then expected them to act on those. Today, things have changed a lot. Gone is the […]
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How to Solicit Feedback from Employees: A Manager Self-Improvement Guide
Once, feedback was only seen as offering value when it flowed downward. Today, we understand the folly of that idea. To be successful, managers need coaching just as much as employees. However, it can be challenging for managers to ask for feedback. Whom do you ask? What do you ask them for? What questions should […]
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How to Give the Most Effective Feedback to Your Employees
In performance management, few things are as critical as feedback. It’s not just the information that you provide to your employees, though. It’s also the way in which you deliver it, the atmosphere, the culture of your company, and so much more. Explore how eLeaP’s Performance Management Platform can simplify evaluations, boost productivity, and drive measurable results. […]
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How to Engage Remote Workers: What Managers Should Know
COVID-19 has ushered in a strange new world. Workers now do their jobs from home. Managers handle their responsibilities remotely. Most of your firm is probably spread out across a city, a state, or even an entire country. In addition to the seismic shift that represents for how we handle regular business activities, it also […]
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How to Transform Managers into More Effective Coaches
Once upon a time, managers were bosses. They were expected to lead by enforcement or coercion (the old carrot and stick management method). Today, things are changing for the better. Managers are transitioning from authoritarian models of leadership to coaches that offer support and help. Of course, that transition isn’t always easy, and it can […]
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Increasing the Value of Feedback: Why Employees Should Ask for It
Chances are good that your managers strive to provide at least some feedback to the employees they manage. It might come in the form of annual performance reviews, or maybe you’ve caught up with the evolution of performance management and are using regular check-ins and smaller conversations to help guide employees. Feedback offers a strong […]
