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Performance Management Systems
What Makes a Performance Management System Effective?
It’s important to understand the elements that make a Performance Management System platform effective. Selecting any random PMS platform and expecting it to work with your team is counterproductive. There should be an understanding of what makes a PMS platform effective for your organization specifically. What works for one organization doesn’t necessarily work for another. […]
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Developmental Reviews vs. Performance Reviews: Why You Should Use Both
There’s a significant difference between developmental reviews and performance reviews. You should understand the difference if you’re running an organization within a corporate setting. Explore how eLeaP’s Performance Management Platform can simplify evaluations, boost productivity, and drive measurable results. Developmental reviews are more aimed at team member growth and hitting goals. Performance reviews are more based on […]
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Your Guide to Getting Leadership Buy-in for Your Performance Management Efforts
Performance management best practices and guiding theories have evolved a great deal in a short amount of time. That’s good news for many managers and employees. However, it’s bad news for those in organizations with leaders that don’t understand those changes or how critical they are to make. We believe it is vitally important to […]
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Biases That Can Affect Managing a Remote Workforce
Remote work is the future. Following the Coronavirus pandemic, more workforces are working remotely now than ever. Some are entirely remote, some are only partly remote, but no matter your organization’s individual situation, you need to know how to efficiently manage distributed team members. Here, we will go over some of the top biases that […]
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Boost Employee Performance by Improving Your Performance Reviews
It tends to be the case in far too many organizations that employees dread their performance reviews. Often, they feel discouraged or defensive afterward and tend not to see the value and benefits that could come of a well-conducted review. Understanding and preparing for performance reviews as a leader is essential. Performance reviews involve a […]
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How To Foster a Culture of Continuous Feedback
A culture that encourages and accepts feedback should be a top priority for any organization. Feedback should never be limited to during performance reviews or only when an employee requires some constructive criticism. In fact, treating feedback as a negative experience or limiting the amount employees ask for or receive feedback can be extremely detrimental […]
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How Career Conversations Are Important For Increasing Employee Engagement
Increasing employee engagement is something that every organization should strive to achieve. Better engagement means better results, productivity, and retention rates, and it has all sorts of other benefits. However, there are paths to improved employee achievement that very few organizations think to take. Have your leaders considered the power that career conversations can have […]
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How to Implement a Positive Feedback Culture in Your Organization
Feedback is an absolutely critical component of any organization. It’s an important tool and can work wonders when implemented correctly within an organization. But many employees and leaders alike dislike feedback or fear it, when it should actually be the opposite. This tends to be because they have had negative experiences with feedback, where it’s […]
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Ways To Succeed with Performance Management Systems
In the contemporary work world, competition among employees is ever-increasing. The best way to ensure a fair environment for all employees is to have solid performance management systems in place to make sure that you can track the output and productivity of your employees. Tracking such crucial aspects of your company and your employees can […]
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The Best Questions to Ask an Employee During a Performance Review
Conducting successful performance reviews requires you to do much more than simply have a one-on-one discussion with your employee. Successful performance reviews require Human Resources to work in conjunction with managers to gain insight into performance. This requires performance reviews to be structured; it can’t just be a free-for-all conversation. And structure requires asking the […]
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How To Make Employee Performance Reviews More Motivational
Performance reviews should be a source of motivation for employees, but most of the time, they dread their reviews and leave feeling disheartened or defensive. Tackling performance reviews effectively requires some understanding and preparation. There’s a skillset behind developing and delivering the ideal performance review; one that motivates your employees to improve rather than leaves […]
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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 […]
