The process of managing employee performance is something that usually varies slightly from one company to another. But regardless of these variations, the same principle...
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The Importance of Rating Scales in Surveys
Whether you're performing employee satisfaction surveys or employee engagement surveys, the importance of using good rating scales can't be underestimated. What's a rating...
Why Leaders Should Listen to 360-Degree Feedback
Performance management within any organization needs to be done with the full support of every employee at every level, and this includes the higher echelons. That's one of the...
The Importance of Employee Blind Spot Detection
When it comes to evaluating employee performance, it's not always easy to balance your expectations with the employee's own perception of their performance. That's why building...
Boost Employee Independence with the Right Performance Management Techniques
Happy Independence Day for last weekend! We hope you had a fantastic weekend, we certainly did.The holidays actually got us thinking about independence when it comes to...
Managing a Remote Team. How to Know What is Really Going on?
I used to manage a group of 15 people. Only 5 of them were co-located with me, with their cubicles outside my office. The other 10 were distributed throughout North America,...
Are Your Organization’s Employee Performance Appraisals One-Sided?
One-sided performance reviews leave the manager and employee with just one side of the information. How are employee performance appraisals conducted at your organization? Do...
5 Ways to Keep Employees Focused
A focused employee is an engaged employee. This translates to fewer careless mistakes being made, higher levels of output and all-around better quality of work. In order for your...
Using 360-Degree Feedback in Probationary Reviews
Using 360-degree feedback during regular appraisals and performance reviews as part of an overall employee performance management process is a common and successful method, but...
How Technology Can Support Employee Performance Reviews
Simple performance review process Most human resources (HR) practitioners understand the value of spending time undertaking formal employee performance reviews on an annual...
Turning 360-degree Feedback Into a Realistic Action Plan
Many companies find it useful to include 360-degree feedback in their employee performance management process. Employees have the opportunity to learn and improve based on...
Anonymous and confidential 360° feedback
Anonymity of the 360° feedback responses is one of the topics we get the most questions about. In some cases anonymity is a must have while in others it's only important that...