Tools for High-Performing Teams
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Going Beyond SMART Goals with Performance Management
If you’ve been handling performance management for any length of time, you are familiar with SMART goals. Based on this framework, goals are developed that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. They work very well in many instances, but they are not perfect. Performance management continues to evolve. We’ve already witnessed the dethroning of […]
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Promoting from Within: Lateral Moves, Transfers, and Promotions through Performance Management
When many leaders think about performance management, they imagine handling performance-related problems, such as tardiness, loss of productivity, or something similar. Those are accurate, but they are only one part of the equation. Performance management also encompasses employee development and growth when properly interconnected with coaching, one-on-ones, accurate feedback, and recognition. Helping employees and team […]
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Your Guide to Exit Interviews: Using an Underappreciated Performance Management Tool
Continual organizational improvement is the underlying goal of performance management. To achieve that, managers must harness every possible source of data. While coaching and one-on-ones are invaluable tools to help foster improvement, exit interviews can also be incredibly rich sources of information. Using them correctly can help identify what a company is doing right, what […]
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The Performance Management Cycle and Designing an Effective PM System
Performance management is not a static field. It changes over time, as all things do. However, the pace of that evolution has accelerated dramatically in recent years. Once cherished beliefs and practices related to performance management have now been discarded, replaced by a new understanding of how to help employees achieve better performance. Unfortunately, for […]
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Check-Ins, One-on-Ones, and Performance Reviews: Answering Your Questions about Frequency
Performance management is something of a balancing act. It involves check-ins, One-on-ones, reviews, feedback, and more. Managers and other leaders must provide actionable feedback so that employees can change their behavior for the better but they must do so in a way that is both timely and not overbearing. There’s also the fact that providing […]
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Manager Skills and Training: Top Skills to Develop in Your Managers
Managers are tasked with monitoring and coaching employees to improve their performance. However, achieving those goals can be challenging, particularly if your managers lack the required skills and capabilities. Without key skills, it is impossible to get employee buy-in, build engagement, and boost performance. Training your managers to focus on these critical skills and capabilities […]
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Creating Leaders That Support Continuous Improvement: A Top-Down Approach to Performance Management
Often, performance management seems to take a bottom-up approach. That makes a lot of sense. After all, no business can grow, thrive, and serve its end customers without the people that actually make up the company. However, managing employee performance in this way is just part of the equation. It is also important to create […]
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The Most Important Questions to Ask During a Performance Review
Performance reviews – they’re often the bane of an employee’s existence. They can feel arbitrary, one-sided, even summarily dismissed. They don’t have to be that way, though. When combined with modern performance management techniques, such as regular check-ins and one-one-ones, full-blown performance reviews can once more regain their position as valuable tools that encourage both […]
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HR Tech: Trends for 2021
Technology is a critical component of performance management. The massive shift to remote work (and remote management) in 2020 highlighted just how important technology is to all business functions. And, while 2021 promises to be less dire than its predecessor, technology will still play a central role in performance management and other HR functions. With […]
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Employee Feedback: A Guide to How to Act on Critical Employee-Generated Information
The old performance management methodology is slowly being eroded. Instead, more and more companies are moving to a more agile process that incorporates timely feedback through check-ins and one-on-ones. This results in the ability to create real-time changes in employee performance. The eLeaP Performance Management Plan, which includes a continuous performance management system, provides organizations […]
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Employee Retention: Why It Needs to Be Part of Performance Management
The words “performance management” conjure up images of annual reviews, performance improvement plans, and maybe even lost raises due to performance problems. For those who are on board with the current performance management mindset, those words might call to mind check-ins and one-on-ones, or perhaps feedback sessions. What they probably don’t bring to mind is […]
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Remote Work Is Here to Stay and Here’s How It Will Affect Performance Management
The changes COVID-19 has introduced to the world are immense. One of the most significant is the shift toward remote work. And, while some of the changes the pandemic created will fade over time, remote work is here to stay. That promises some interesting effects for performance management. Is It Really Our Permanent New Normal? […]
