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Are Learners Suffering from Zoom Fatigue? Consider Changing Up the Training and Development Process
Companies that have transitioned to remote work have also had to transition to remote training and onboarding training and development Process. Finding the right resources to do that is not always a simple task. While Zoom leaped in to save the day for several schools and businesses around the world when COVID shut everything down, […]
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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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The Transition from Keeping Score to Creating a Feedback Culture with Your Performance Management Goals
Metrics are great—they tell companies several different things that help them make effective decisions. However, there are some areas where metrics are going by the wayside, particularly when it comes to performance management. After all, these are people, not machines or numbers. Therefore, modern organizations that want to embrace a performance management culture will need […]
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What Is 360-Degree Feedback, and Should It Be Part of Your Performance Management Strategy?
The feedback process has been up for debate and discussion for some time now. Several organizations are embracing various digital tools to help them transform the process and figure out how to improve performance management by improving feedback and how it is delivered, interpreted, and responded to, by employees and managers alike. 360-degree feedback is […]
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Companies That Are Leading the Way in Redefining Performance Management
Like many things, performance management is an area where sometimes information is best gleaned by example. Organizations can read all about the new world of PM and how it impacts their current strategy, as well as how, in theory, it will revolutionize the company culture. However, they’re not seeing it in practice. They don’t have […]
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Filling Employment and Skills Gaps: Knowing When to Hire and When to Promote from Within
Companies today are finding themselves short-handed in all kinds of ways. Some organizations are going weeks, and even months, without managers, supervisors, or other important roles filled properly, causing others to pick up the slack. If an organization has done that, well, it will become clear that instead of looking for a new person to […]
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Performance Management in Education: How Student Performance Impacts Educator Assessments
The world of performance management is changing the way things are done in the education sector. Many people are looking at PM in relation to students, with respect to how the inclusion of performance management principles might change the traditional grading structure. However, it’s also important to apply the new practices of performance management in […]
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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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Using Onboarding to Immerse Employees in Culture from the Start
Not only are HR teams and managers tasked with onboarding people and training them into their roles, but now they also have to make sure that they’re training employees in the culture from day one. In fact, for best results, culture immersion and training should start well before day one. While it’s obvious that some […]
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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 Improvement through Workplace Culture Shifts
The Great Resignation is causing many organizations to rethink their workplace cultures. After all, the majority of employees leaving jobs cited this as one of the main reasons for their departure. Culture is becoming increasingly important to people and thanks to the pandemic proving that remote work is feasible and perhaps even more effective, employers […]
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Performance Management Cycles: It’s Not a Static Journey
The traditional performance management model dates back as far as the 1950s when Peter Drucker proposed the idea of Management by Objectives, or MBO. This concept proposes that organizational and individual goals need to be aligned and that it is the responsibility of management to ensure that happens. It’s not always easy to achieve, Drucker […]
