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Performance Management Systems
Effective Goal-Setting to Motivate Your Employees: How Your PMS Can Help
In the modern business world, employees have the upper hand. Companies are revamping their culture, reconsidering their benefits and perks, and reworking their organizational structure to embrace their employees and offer a culture of supportive, collaborative people and systems. This ensures that they have a culture that attracts top talent and helps motivate employees to […]
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Performance Management Systems
The Two Primary Purposes of Your PMS and How to Embrace Both with Strategic Management
The modern performance management system, or PMS, is often the Achilles’ heel of many organizations and their HR teams. It can be hard to nail down the ideal system to deliver on all of the necessary goals and metrics. These systems generally will have two goals, or purposes, that they serve for your organization: Employee […]
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Performance Management Systems
Four Important Questions for Decision-Makers When Looking at Performance Management Systems
CEOs and managers in charge of PMS setup and execution often find themselves fighting an uphill battle to get employees on board. They fear that providing feedback or having honest discussions could damage relationships, cause employees to feel unvalued, or even cause people to leave the company. Fortunately, when they’re handled properly, performance management systems […]
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Creating a Development Plan During Onboarding
When veterans in any industry start with a company, the onboarding process should be slightly different from a fresh hire. Someone that already has experience in a certain type of work should have different goals, especially since they’ve got a head start as far as knowledge and skill goes. What should be different about the […]
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Aligning Strategic Goals with Employee Performance Through Performance Management
An effective performance management system typically has three main elements, one of which is goal setting. This includes goal setting for employees, projects, job roles, and even the organization as a whole. Developing a strategy to ensure that the organization’s goals are aligned with employee performance and that it is all centrally managed will make […]
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Performance Management Trends: From Remote Work to In-House Analytics and Beyond
The way the world works has changed, and it is still changing. While CEOs might not be hiring robot assistants and people aren’t flying their spaceships to work, the future is here and it is a lot more high-tech than many people ever anticipated. Performance management has evolved, as well, and the focus on the […]
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Creating the Best Employee Engagement Surveys: Part 2
In our last article, we touched on the best questions to ask on employee engagement surveys. If you’re not aware of what these surveys consist of, we’ll give you a quick refresher. What Are Employee Engagement Surveys? Employee engagement surveys are typically a part of most performance management systems and a vital part of the […]
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Creating the Best Employee Engagement Surveys: Part 1
Employee engagement surveys are becoming more of a regular part of the performance management process every day. As organizations continue to make a shift toward including the opinion of team members and ensuring employees stay mentally well, these types of surveys and other elements will continue to grow. Unfortunately, many organizations use employee engagement surveys […]
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Will Performance Management Replace Traditional Grading in the Education System?
Teachers and educators everywhere have the same goal for their students: to help them learn the things that they need to not only survive but thrive, in the world as adults. Part of that should come in being monitored and held accountable in the same way that adults are on the job—forget A’s, B’s, and […]
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Performance Management Systems
Personnel Performance Management Systems
Performance management is an important part of every company’s strategy for growth and success. Many tools can be used to help you measure your organization’s progress toward those strategies. The most common tool is a spreadsheet or scorecard system with individual employee scores on key metrics such as sales productivity, customer satisfaction, or cost reduction. […]
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Hiring a New Manager Part 2: Managing Former Peers
Managing Former Peers! You’ve worked with an employee for years. They’re great at their job and have been instrumental in helping the company succeed. But now, you’re leaving that role behind to take on another new position as manager. It can be hard enough handling the transition of moving from one role to another, but […]
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New Management Part 1: Making the Transition, Do You Hire Internally or Externally?
New Management ! It’s amazing how many people want to be promoted into management positions but never actually make it past the first few months of their job. In some cases, this may be due to poor performance, while in others, it could simply come down to not having enough experience managing other people. There […]
