Tools for High-Performing Teams
Build a better world with a better team
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Key Challenges to Remote Worker Development
Performance management (PM) and learning and development (L&D) are inextricably linked. They are two sides of the same situation – developing workers and ensuring that they are living up to their potential. Often, performance management is really the process whereby managers discover the gaps in an employee’s skillset and then L&D is the process where […]
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How to Unlock Your Employees’ True Career Potential
Performance management is really just the process of helping employees become the best version of themselves. However, many workers have inner blocks that prevent them from realizing their true career potential. The good news is that those blocks can be removed, unlocking the full potential of your team members. A Mindset Shift Before we begin […]
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What to Look for in Performance Management Technology
If there was any doubt that we live in a technology-centric world, the business response to COVID-19 surely put those to rest. When the pandemic struck, most businesses almost immediately moved to a remote work-scenario, and many remain there. Technology is the great enabler here, allowing teams to work, collaborate, and communicate with one another […]
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Employee Feedback: A Guide to How to Act on Critical Employee-Generated Information
The old performance management methodology is slowly being eroded. Instead, more and more companies are moving to a more agile process that incorporates timely feedback through check-ins and one-on-ones. This results in the ability to create real-time changes in employee performance. The eLeaP Performance Management Plan, which includes a continuous performance management system, provides organizations […]
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Employee Retention: Why It Needs to Be Part of Performance Management
The words “performance management” conjure up images of annual reviews, performance improvement plans, and maybe even lost raises due to performance problems. For those who are on board with the current performance management mindset, those words might call to mind check-ins and one-on-ones, or perhaps feedback sessions. What they probably don’t bring to mind is […]
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What You Need to Know About Designing a Training Plan
The point of performance management is to help team members transform into their best selves. While coaching and pointers can help, it will sometimes be necessary to take deeper action. To build skills and support improved outcomes, employees will need to be trained. The right training plan is essential to seeing success here. Is Training […]
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Unearthing Performance Management Biases That Might Be Crippling Your Success
Chances are good you think that your performance reviews are fair and evenhanded. You feel that they are valuable tools to help spur employee development and growth. And, they can be. However, understand that we are all human and we all suffer from hidden biases. When those biases show up in performance reviews, they can […]
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Supercharge Employee Performance with an Accurate Recruiting Plan
Performance management is too often seen as a reactive process. Managers focus on handling the performance of existing employees – course-correcting bad decisions, weeding out unwanted behaviors, and continually aligning actions and decisions with company goals. While that view is understandable, it’s also the source of a lot of wasted time, energy, and money. It […]
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A Look at Workplace Trends for 2021: Key Elements Shaping the Work World
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from 2020, it’s that no predictions are set in stone. No one realized when this year dawned just what would be in store for us. However, it is important to try to anticipate what is to come. While viruses and contagions might defy predictability to some extent, we have […]
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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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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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Key Considerations for Manager Development
People are the key to your business’s success. It’s as simple as that. However, you must have a way to manage those people, to direct and guide them. Your managers and team leaders are, therefore, some of the most critical individuals. Sadly, most managers are ineffective or not trusted by their teams to lead them […]
