Tools for High-Performing Teams
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How to Maximize the Value of Your One-on-Ones
Few performance management tools offer the value, traction, and transformative power of the humble one-on-one. Sure, they’re brief. They’re informal. They’re focused more on conversation than they are on structured teaching. However, for all that, the one-on-one is your real chance to foster true change in employees. Because of that, you must get it right. […]
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Performance Management Trends to Watch in 2021
Performance management is not static. In fact, it’s evolving at an ever-faster pace. Even the impact of 2020 hasn’t been enough to halt change. As a decision-maker, you must be able to keep up with those changes. They inform how you manage employee performance, how you interact with team members, how team members interact with […]
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The Art of Giving Employee Feedback: Tips for Managers to Improve Performance
PM isn’t what it once was. Not that long ago, you might have met with each employee once or twice per year, provided them with a list of complaints (and maybe a couple of compliments) about their performance, and then expected them to act on those. Today, things have changed a lot. Gone is the […]
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Ensuring Accountability in Remote Work Situations: A How-To Guide
While many businesses have started to bring a limited number of employees back to their offices, remote work is going to remain the norm for the majority of employees and employers. While you might have been able to “tough it out” thus far without any formal strategy for ensuring that everything goes smoothly, chances are […]
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How to Solicit Feedback from Employees: A Manager Self-Improvement Guide
Once, feedback was only seen as offering value when it flowed downward. Today, we understand the folly of that idea. To be successful, managers need coaching just as much as employees. However, it can be challenging for managers to ask for feedback. Whom do you ask? What do you ask them for? What questions should […]
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Emotion Identification: A Key Skill Required for Successful Coaches
For managers to become coaches and move your performance management into the 21st century, they need to master a wide range of skills. They need to become adept at checking in with employees regularly. They need to move away from the carrot/stick mindset and towards one of innovation and communication. However, while those are important […]
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Tips to Deliver Better Remote One-on-Ones
It can be easy to feel like COVID-19 has turned the world on its ear. That’s particularly true when it comes to managers and their ability to coach their teams. One-on-ones are vastly more effective than traditional performance management tactics in terms of engendering real behavior change, improving employee engagement, and foster real, lasting change […]
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How to Give the Most Effective Feedback to Your Employees
In performance management, few things are as critical as feedback. It’s not just the information that you provide to your employees, though. It’s also the way in which you deliver it, the atmosphere, the culture of your company, and so much more. Explore how eLeaP’s Performance Management Platform can simplify evaluations, boost productivity, and drive measurable results. […]
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Remote Employee Questions: Guiding Your Team Forward
In this brave new COVID-19-distanced world, remote work has become the norm. However, despite our familiarity with it, many people still find it challenging. Employees are struggling to feel connected with their teams or to find value in their duties. Managers are struggling to connect with employees and provide the help and guidance they need […]
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Improving Manager Effectiveness to Maximize Leadership and Success
There’s a lot of focus on remote worker productivity and engagement in our strange new world. However, while they are crucial to success, you cannot overlook the effectiveness of your managers. If management is dropping the ball, it doesn’t matter what else you do. How do you ensure manager effectiveness, though? It will require intentionally […]
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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 […]
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Drive Performance Improvement with Better Clarity of Expectations
When you think of performance management, chances are good you picture an annual sit-down between a manager and an employee. They discuss what the employee did wrong in the past year, what they might have done right, and what the company expects of them moving forward. It’s a pretty negative situation overall, which is one […]
