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Get to know employee performance with crowdsourced reviews

You can know how a person is performing with crowdsourced reviews from managers, coworkers, & even people from other departments. Here's how.

Performance & Growth
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Giving Upward Feedback: Benefits, Best Practices & Examples

Discover the benefits of upward feedback for effective communication, improved leadership, and exchange feedback with confidence using our comprehensive guide.

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5 performance review methods you should avoid using

When practiced the right way, performance reviews motivate people & boost performance. Here are 5 review methods that you should avoid for effective reviews.

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10 employee performance review tips to improve performance

Employee performance reviews are critical to employee & business success. Here are 10 tips to help you write better evaluations, deliver, & improve performance.

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25 questions to ask in your next employee performance review

Do you want to improve the quality of your employee performance review questions? Here are 25 of the most effective employee performance review questions.

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How to run team check-ins like a great boss

Team check-ins or stand-ups are indispensable for building and nurturing team relationships. Here are some tips to improve your check-ins.

Performance & Growth
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Manager 1:1s: Everything you need to know

One-on-one coaching is essential for employee development. Here are some ideas to make these conversations not only a regular habit but also beneficial.

Performance & Growth
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Importance of difficult conversations and how to ace them

The importance of difficult conversations lies in the potential benefits they can bring to a workplace. Here is how to handle tough conversations at work.

Performance & Growth
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Upward feedback: How to ask for and act on it

Upward feedback lets people give feedback to their managers. Learn how to encourage managers to ask for feedback from employees and then act on it.

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Is your performance management system future ready?

Many organizations are still using legacy performance management systems. Here's how to know if your organization is ready for the future of work.

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5 key ingredients of effective feedback conversations

Feedback that boosts employee performance is always a conversation. Here are 5 tips to make your feedback conversations more effective and deliver performance.

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Manager 1:1s, Continuous Feedback & 360s: A Modern Approach

Companies need to reinvent their performance review by combining manager 1:1s and continuous peer feedback with 360º reviews. Read how.

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Feedback frequency and why continuous makes sense

Annual ratings-based feedback doesn't cut it anymore. Continuous feedback is a better way to develop people and deliver high performance.

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How to run performance review meetings

Employees dread performance reviews because managers deliver them the wrong way. Here are seven research-backed ways to improve your delivery.

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How to adapt your performance management for the new normal

The new world of work requires alignment in how companies manage performance and develop their people. Read more.

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Guide to Mid-year Performance Reviews: The What, Why & How

Having meaningful mid year reviews along with your regular feedback conversations is beneficial in so many ways! Here's your go-to guide on everything about mid year performance reviews.

Performance & Growth
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Trouble calculating ROI of performance management? Do this.

Performance management is vital to business success, but people leaders struggle to convey its ROI. Here's how you can show the ROI of performance management.

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Emerging Challenges of a Hybrid Work Model & How to Tackle It

Hybrid work is undoubtedly turning out to be the future of work with the great resignation causing upheaval in work spaces. You need to have ongoing feedback, involve people in goal-setting, and promote accountability to have high performing hybrid teams. But how often do your approaches work?

Performance & Growth
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How to Track Employee Performance in a Remote/ Hybrid Setup

Employers face the challenge of finding productive tools to measure and track employee performance. This article highlights the emerging role of technologically-advanced tools to keep track of employee activities.

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How to Create a Performance Management Process

Since performance management planning is a collaborative, two-way process, it is vital to engage your employees in the initial stages of the PMP process to give them a sense of accountability and commitment.

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How to Create a Performance Management Plan for 2022

Performance appraisals are usually stressful and ineffective. But it doesn't have to be this way. It's time to create a performance management plan that will keep your employees from moving to another company.

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The 4 Inevitable Steps of a Performance Management Cycle

Performance management is a structured action plan that follows a specific cycle. Learn the 4 crucial steps to run it smoothly.

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Performance Management Strategies That Truly Work

Learn how to set up, track, and conduct strategic performance management and how it supports your business' success.

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Guide to Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

Is your enterprise performance management strategy(EPM) on point? Read this blog to learn how to create, implement, and manage an EPM system.

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Why You Need a Performance Management Framework

If you want to create great performance management, first start with a strong framework. Here's how it works and why every company needs one.

Performance & Growth
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Why is Performance Management Important?

Learn the importance of performance management systems and how they can improve employee performance, create better rewards systems, and boost engagement.

Performance & Growth
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5 SMART Employee Feedback Methods

Read five SMART framework feedback methods to help to set goals and an excellent method to provide feedback to employees that work great for companies.

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Why is Employee Feedback Important?

Find out why employee feedback is important. Read this post to learn the types of employee feedback, how it can be used, & other benefits of the survey process.

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What Effective Performance Management Looks Like

Learn about the different aspects of effective performance management and find out how you can improve your company's ability to track, manage, and improve employee performance.

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The Essential 1:1 Guide: Benefits, Tips and Agenda Questions

Meetings not going as well as you planned? Read this short blog to get some amazing tips on one-on-one meetings.

Performance & Growth
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Employee Feedback Tips and Examples That Actually Work

Giving feedback to employees can make or break team morale, which means leaders need to care about every word used to address employees. Here are some useful tips and examples.

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How To Give Your Boss Feedback: Tips, Dos and Don'ts

Worried about how to give your boss feedback without sounding rude? Check this blog out to learn how to provide feedback that will be appreciated.

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60 Examples of Performance Review Phrases For 2023

Here are 60 performance review phrases you can use to when evaluating yourself or when giving feedback to your peers and direct reports.

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10 Examples of Employee Performance Goals to Inspire Yours

Set SMART employee performance goals as a yardstick to measure progress during the review process. Read on to know more.

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7 Ways to Evaluate Employee Performance

There are many ways to evaluate employee performance for the benefit of your company. Read about them here in this brief guide.

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8 Mistakes Managers Make When Giving Employee Feedback

Giving employee feedback isn't as easy as it seems, and common feedback mistakes can kill conversation and render solutions ineffective. Learn more now.

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Why Employee Recognition Should Never Be Underestimated

Employee recognition plays a vital role in employee turnover rates, engagement, and more. Discover how it impacts your business with this guide.

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The Team Meeting Agenda Checklist Every Business Needs

Staying organized keeps team meetings on pace and productive. Check out this team meeting agenda checklist to keep your meetings effective.

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What Are the Benefits of Using Employee Performance Review Software?

Employee performance review software is a useful tool that offers a variety of benefits. Learn about how it works here in this analysis.

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Best Performance management tools in 2022

What do you know about using performance management software? Feel free to read about some of its most important tenets in this breakdown.

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Top FAQs About Performance Management

Choosing the right performance management software for your company is important. That’s why we've compiled a list of FAQs that we get and answered them for you!

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First Performance Review Jitters? Here Are 9 Useful Tips

To really know how you're doing at your new job, you need to have your first performance review conversation. Here are 6 tips to prepare for this meeting!

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How Can Business Coaching Improve Employee Productivity?

Do you need help with improving the productivity of your employees? Read these simple strategies to help with getting started.

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How to Choose a Performance Management System

Are you wondering how you should go about choosing your performance management systems? Read on and learn more about it here.

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Implementing a Performance Management System: Tips for Success

What do you know about implementing a performance management system? Here are some important factors to consider for getting started with this software.

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The 8 Best Performance Management Tools for Unparalleled Excellence

Discover the game-changing performance management tools to achieve peak performance. Unleash your team's potential with these essential tools for success.

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Understanding the Performance Management Cycle: a Guide

Would you like to know more about the performance management cycle but don't know where to start? Keep reading and learn more.

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9 Best Practices of Performance Management

Check out these performance management best practices that can empower your teams to achieve individual and company goals.

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10 Powerful Performance Management Strategies to Help You Succeed

Here are 10 tried-and-true performance management strategies that can help you set your team up for success.

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7 Steps to Better Performance Management for Virtual Teams

How do you ensure that remote team members are meeting goals and performing to the best of their abilities? Read on to know more.

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The 10 Core Principles Of Performance Management

Core principles of performance management to aid organisations in managing employee performance and help them switch to new-age performance management solutions.

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Performance Management Models for Organizations Made Easy

Performance management models can be implemented by organizations to enhance employee and team performance while boosting job satisfaction and employee retention.

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Performance Appraisal Methods for the Modern Workforce

Performance appraisal and its benefits for employees and organizations, different types of performance appraisal methods involving traditional and modern methods.

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10 Feedback Questions For Your Next Performance Review

Feedback questions to ask managers are a vital part of a performance review. It keeps the conversation going and ensures that both parties benefit.

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The One-on-One Meeting Checklist You Need Right Now

An essential guide for managers to run effective one-on-one meetings. Learn the things to keep in mind and make your next one-on-one meeting a great success.

Performance & Growth
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Meeting Topics For Effective Employee Interactions

Meetings can only be effective if done with due preparation, such as setting a topic and expecting an outcome, or they can lose valuable time.

Performance & Growth
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Performance Management vs Performance Appraisal

Wondering what the difference is between performance management and performance appraisal? Check out this article for a comprehensive overview.

Performance & Growth
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Stack Ranking: Pros, Cons, and Impact on Performance

What is stack ranking? Is it a good management tool to increase employee performance? This post explores how stack ranking works and its impact in organizations

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What is Dotted-Line Reporting and When to Use It?

This article will go over what dotted line reporting is, when it's used, how differences between solid line reporting and dotted line reporting.

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How to Measure Employee Performance: The Top Performance Metrics

Wondering how to measure employee performance? Check out our guide to the top performance metrics, and find out which ones are best for your business.

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8 Tips for Strategic Performance Management

Performance management strategies can be complex and challenging to implement. Here are some great tips to make strategic performance management easy.

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Performance Management Can Make Your Company Recession-Proof

Read on to know how effective performance management can give your company the edge and help you weather the storm.

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Crucial Elements of Performance Management Systems

Read this blog to run a quick check on your performance management system to make sure it has these important elements.

Performance & Growth
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5 Examples Of Performance Management Goals

Effective performance management is key to handling organization growth in the long run. Here are some performance management goal examples to get you started.

Performance & Growth
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How to Revamp Your Performance Management Process

Performance management is integral to employee engagement and retention. Learn how you can help make your employees feel connected to the organization.

Performance & Growth
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How to Give Effective 360-Degree Feedback to a Co-Worker

In this blog, we cover what 360-degree feedback is, what its benefits are, tips for giving 360 reviews to a co-worker, and examples of 360 feedback for colleagues.

Performance & Growth
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Best Practices for Running Effective One-on-One Meetings

Here is everything that you as a manager should know about executing effective one-on-one meetings with your employees for their overall growth and development.

Performance & Growth
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How To Structure a Performance Review: Tips and Examples

A well-structured performance review system helps the employee and the manager. Here is how to structure performance reviews in your organization.

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The Shift to Continuous Performance Management and Enablement

Many organisations are moving from traditional models to modern approaches by discussing performance in real time and that has made all the difference. Get to know the whats, hows and whys of performance management to keep performance and growth at the top of your mind.

Performance & Growth
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Why Performance Reviews May Not Be As Bad You Think

We want performance reviews to measure performance, focus on development, help employees stay connected, maintain morale, reduce attrition, and so much more. In short, we want this one tool to achieve every performance management objective under the sun. But is this what performance reviews are meant to achieve? Or are we in the need of something larger than just ‘reviews’?

Performance & Growth
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RIP Point-in-Time 360s, Long-Live Continuous Feedback & Praise

In a world where point-in-time 360 surveys are the norm, performance reviews are nothing more than mere ratings. Despite the long history, most companies using this model believe that their performance management system fails to meet expectations. Here's everything that's wrong with annual 360 surveys and how you can fix them.

Performance & Growth
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Career Pathing 101: What It Is and Why It Matters

Recent research by Gartner finds that just 25% of employees are confident about their careers at their current organization. Ad-hoc promotions accelerate this problem and cause major disengagement among employees. Here's how career pathing can provide clarity and boost confidence in your workforce.

Performance & Growth
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The Idiosyncratic Rater Effect: Why Human Beings Are Unreliable Raters of Each Other

Remember the saying, “What you see in others is a reflection of yourself”? That’s precisely what the idiosyncratic rater effect is trying to tell us—our rating of someone else says more about us than it does about them. So what does this mean for performance reviews?

Performance & Growth
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Rewarding The Small Wins Is The Secret to Boosting Workplace Morale

We get that there may be HR professionals out there who believe that praise and recognition are better limited to big wins that concoct tremendous results. But this is a grave misconception, and here's why.

Performance & Growth
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Why Every Leader Needs To Create Entrepreneurs Out of Their Team Members

An entrepreneurial team is more likely to take a proactive approach to problem-solving and find effective solutions to organizational challenges. By promoting an entrepreneurial mindset within their team members, leaders can encourage innovation, agility, and adaptability while also empowering their team members and achieving better business results.

Performance & Growth
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Stop Looking At Performance Management As a Backward-looking Assessment Program

We’re always caught up in the past—tracking past goals, evaluating past performance, and ranking employees based on past achievements. What if, instead of merely tracking past performance stats as we typically do, we expanded the process into a more well-rounded system of performance enablement that fuels future performance?

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Tying Performance Ratings to Compensation, And Other Poor Practices

Performance reviews are critical to performance management, but traditional approaches can have several drawbacks. Tying performance reviews to benefits can create a culture of competition and demotivate employees, while annual reviews often fail to provide timely and actionable feedback. 

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Why the Visibility of Your Goal Setting Matters

Hierarchical structures often filter out details, leaving teams at the bottom with limited insight into the bigger picture. In such a scenario, your employees work towards achieving personal targets and not towards achieving a common organizational milestone. When so many workers are oblivious to what they’re working to achieve, there’s little hope for the hive.

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Lead vs. Lag Metrics: Do Your Dashboards Help You Ascertain The Root Cause?

Why do some businesses seem to be able to predict their success while others struggle to understand what keeps going wrong? The answer lies in the use of lead and lag metrics.

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Is The Rating System, as We Know It, Reductive?

Ratings can work like labels, like when you organize the socks in your sock drawer by color; or they can work like rankings, like when you list your top 10 Taylor Swift songs. But what they simply can't function as are holistic performance evaluation mechanisms.

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Why the Big Bang Approach Is a Pitfall to Your L&D Programs & How to Fix It

In most cases, there’s nothing wrong with the course content of your L&D program. It can be as entertaining, interactive, and informative as you want it to be. However, the problem isn’t the content of the program so much as how it’s being delivered to your people—in a single two-hour-long webinar smack in the middle of a busy Wednesday afternoon.

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