Tools for High-Performing Teams
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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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Where Is the ‘Carrot and Stick’ in Today’s Performance Management Methodology?
How do you get employees to do their jobs? How do you encourage a worker to hit key goals and objectives? How do you ensure that your team is motivated to push harder and achieve more? In the past, this involved what’s called the “carrot and stick” approach. Carrot – The carrot was a reward […]
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Modern Employee Reviews: What to Cover and What to Ignore
Annual performance reviews – we all hate them. It’s time that we admitted that. Managers and team members alike loathe these impersonal, virtually worthless goads designed to punish employees for not reaching arbitrary goals. Those are harsh words, but they’re deserved. And the deep truth in them is why the annual performance review is dying […]
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Performance Management and Goal Setting: A How-To Guide
The entire point of performance management is to help grow your team members. To build a successful team that can help your organization thrive. Performance reviews are critical tools that enable you to achieve that, but you must be able to set goals for performance improvement. Of course, setting goals can be challenging. They need […]
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Creating Performance Incentives That Really Matter to Your Team
Wouldn’t it be nice if the same thing motivated everyone? If that were true, you could simply offer everyone a raise, and they’d perform at their peak. They’d immediately address issues with their performance and commit to doing better. Of course, we don’t live in that world. Your team members are diverse. They come from […]
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Peer Reviews: Understanding Their Role in Modern Performance Management
The annual performance review is finally dying out. It has been replaced by modern performance management methods like check-ins and creating a two-way flow of conversation. Peer reviews can also be powerful tools that help to increase performance and build traction, but for many leaders and decision-makers, their role in modern performance management is a […]
