Tools for High-Performing Teams
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Remote Performance Management: Tips and Tricks for Managers
Remote work is here to stay. Even as organizations try to strike a balance between work from home and in-person work at the office, we know that effective performance management will be vital to ensure success. For managers, this presents a few challenges, particularly if you’re still struggling with remote performance management. The truth is […]
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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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Shifting the Performance Management Mindset to Lifecycle Management
As a leader, you must have the right mindset to manage employees. Traditionally, that has been a performance management mindset – the focus on improving and then maintaining performance over time. However, while performance is one of the more important elements, it is just one of many. Increasingly, it is becoming important for management to […]
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Driving Collaboration: Improving Performance Across an Organization
Collaboration – the art of working together seamlessly to create something more than the sum of its parts. It’s something of the holy grail for all organizations, and it can be incredibly challenging to achieve. Without collaboration, your teams are just disparate parts of the organization, working toward different ends. With it, though, they become […]
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Personal Development and Performance Management: The Connection You’re Not Making
Managing employee performance is critical to business success. However, that is a one-way view that often delivers lopsided results. When managers attempt to coach employees simply based on their value to the organization, it neglects a crucial fact – team members are more than just employees. They’re whole individuals. They have their own wants, likes, […]
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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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Remote Work Policy: Designing for Success in the New Normal
At some point, we will stop saying “new normal”, but that time is not now. Too many organizations are still reeling from the impact of the pandemic. Too many leaders are still struggling to come to grips with the remote work world in which they now find themselves. The first step in coming to grips […]
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Six Tips to Transform Company Culture
What is culture when it comes to businesses? It is often hard to pin down, and if you were to ask 10 different executives, you would likely receive 10 different answers. Everyone knows that culture is critical to success, but we cannot seem to agree on what it is, much less how it affects a […]
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Tips and Tricks for Success with OKRs
Objectives and key results (OKRs) provide the foundation for business success. Still, setting appropriate OKRs can be more than a little challenging. When done correctly, they can drive performance, support engagement, empower employees, and focus teams on outcomes. However, when implemented incorrectly, organizations won’t see those benefits. It can cause damage to morale and engagement. […]
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Understanding Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Their Impact on Business Success
To be successful, businesses must be able to manage and track performance. While there are many ways to do that, one of the most powerful models is objectives and key results (OKRs). Deceptively simple, it requires just four steps: Defining the objectives quarterly Implementing tools to measure progress toward objectives Communication with team members A […]
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How to Lead without Authority: The Science of Co-Elevation
The workplace is usually built on a sense of authority – a defined hierarchy in which authority runs downhill. Each executive was king or queen of their own little fiefdom, but owed fealty to the person above, culminating with the CEO. While that might have been business as usual, 20 years of research has shown […]
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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 […]
