Tools for High-Performing Teams
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Mobile Performance Management and What It Offers Your Organization
How do you manage your employees’ performance? What systems do you have in place to help? If you’re still relying on outmoded systems and once-per-year performance reviews, the chances are good that you’re not seeing the improvements you should. The right performance management (PM) system can help, notably when it offers mobile features and capabilities.What […]
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Performance Management Best Practices in 2020 and Beyond
Managing the performance of your teams is critical. However, performance management has evolved a great deal, and they continue to change. This goes well beyond ditching the annual performance review, though. Performance management best practices ensure your team continues to excel. If you’re going to manage your employees’ performance correctly and encourage them to perform […]
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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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Performance Management Post COVID-19: Managing a Splintered Workforce
COVID-19 came in like a lion and is still with us to some degree, even as the world continues to return to some semblance of normalcy. As we continue to recover from the pandemic, one thing becomes clear – the situation is not returning to “business as usual” for many organizations. For many with dispersed […]
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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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Performance Management Trends: 2020 and Beyond
Performance management has changed a great deal in the 21st century. We’ve gone from a world in which annual performance reviews were the norm to one where more and more companies are ditching that model in favor of agile, direct communications. However, the evolution of performance management is far from finished. What are the performance […]
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Performance Management Systems: Structuring Your Check-Ins
Today’s performance management systems barely resemble their predecessors. Gone is the carrot and stick mentality that doled out rewards with one hand while threatening punishments with the other. Largely gone, too, are the annual performance reviews – those dreaded once or twice-a-year sit-downs with management during which employees usually got to learn how much of […]
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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 […]
