There are a number of qualifiers for candidates to join your team: experience, training, aptitude, etc. There is one thing most employers don’t account for when they hire – and even evaluate – those on their team. Do you really know how honest and…

Recently there’s been a decline in the quality of work around the office. As you look around, you notice more employees off task, more projects unfinished, and finally you realize… the performance management strategy isn’t working anymore. In fact,…

Orientation, onboarding, and the first day on the job… the cultural immersion and familiarization with the company and position are important, but what about the performance standards? All essential information is provided in these first few days on…

Performance reviews aren’t always an easily mastered task. Even though they take a little bit of practice, managers can take some preemptive steps to make sure they start on the right foot. For the novice managers new to conducting performance reviews…

Mother knows best. Or at least, that’s what we’ve been told. Mom (or dad) taught you how to do the laundry, make dinner and be a good person. Well, performance management is similar. Performance management has evolved into a coaching apparatus more…

“[Redesigned performance management processes] shift the focus away from forced-distribution rankings and much more toward helping managers coach people to succeed. By changing this one HR ‘ingredient,’ it is possible to affect many others.” –…

As the effectiveness of performance reviews has come under scrutiny lately, it begs the question do other performance management processes really improve performance? It should be a rather fluid entity that governs how employees work…

Are happy employees engaged employees? Truthfully, it doesn’t matter (to performance) if your team is happy or not. It…

Even the best of the best and the high performing employees are subject to the hazards of the workplace that can lead them towards another…

Everyone makes mistakes, including during performance reviews. Despite the fact they are supposed to help solve issues in the workplace, individually and team-oriented on a grander scale, managers sometimes make these 6 mistakes during the…

The performance appraisal. Love it? Hate it? Honestly, when it comes to employee performance there really isn’t any other way to improve the quality of their work. However, there are ways to botch the process if you don’t conduct these…