Agile Performance Management
Effective performance management made easy
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Commission and Pay-for-Performance Compensation Models: Do They Belong in the Future of Performance Management?
For years, sales positions have often been offered with a commission and/or bonus structure—the more you sell, the more you can earn. It’s a good enough incentive for many salespeople to work harder and acquire more business on behalf of the organization. However, in today’s post-COVID economy where everyone is still feeling the effects of […]
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Balancing Employee Culture: Somewhere Between Fear and Fun Lies the Perfect Formula
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions out there about workplace culture these days. Company culture is more than a buzzword. While it’s been under fire recently because of the Great Resignation, it’s also been an integral part of organizations for as long as they have existed. Creating the right culture depends on sifting […]
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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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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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Establish an Effective Virtual Onboarding Program for Remote Hiring Success
Today’s employees demand more from the companies they work for. Despite the pandemic wholly embracing the remote work model, many companies are itching to return to the office and therefore not taking the time to consider if their virtual onboarding solution is really working for them. In the haste to keep things running as “normally” […]
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Creating a DEI Culture: It’s More Than Demographics and EEO Practices
In the past, “diversity and inclusion” referred mostly to things like gender, sex, race, educational background, and so forth. Companies have been encouraged for decades to build a diverse workforce and many focused on these factors without realizing how much more is involved under the umbrella of DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion. While the […]
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Performance Management Systems
Auditing Performance Management Systems for Effectiveness, Consistency, and More
Although organizational leaders might think their performance management system is working well and doing its part to help monitor employee performance and progress, that may not always be the case. After all, it only matters insofar as the employees’ experiences and perceptions of the system and how well it functions. If your employees are not […]
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New Management Part 1: Making the Transition, Do You Hire Internally or Externally?
It’s amazing how many people want to be promoted into management positions but never actually make it past the first few months of their job. In some cases, this may be due to poor performance, while in others, it could simply come down to not having enough experience managing other people. There are also those […]
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Checking Back With Trends In Performance Management
Even though we’re not that far into the new year, it’s always good to check up on how predicted trends are going. We had our ideas of which trends would garner the most attention for the new year, and it’s amusing to see where we stand. What predictions are panning out the way we thought, […]
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How to Implement Employee Retention Strategies
It’s critical that you have an effective employee retention program that’s always looking for the best talent and reduce turnover rates. It’s much easier to retain your best talent than it is to recruit, train, and onboard completely new employees. This all starts with the culture and the atmosphere within your workplace. Every company has […]