How to Create Motivation Through Performance Management
By Greg Harris Setting up a successful performance management strategy begins with understanding what employees need to be productive and motivated—and they may need more than you think.
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7 Best Practices in Employee Performance Reviews
As the year comes to a close, many employers are finalizing employee performance reviews for the year. Let’s take a look at 7 best practices for employee performance reviews:
How to Help Employees Get the Most from Performance Reviews
by Ron DeCamella, director of Learning for Namely The performance review—what was once a staple of the workplace has become a heated debate in HR. While some stand by them as the traditional way to measure performance, others argue that they’re not effective at all.
Survey: Small Businesses Lack Communication, Leaves Employees Feeling Unfulfilled
More than 40% of small business employees say they receive no feedback from their company and its managers, even though consistent performance evaluation is considered by Human Resources experts to be one of the most important qualities of a manager. This lack of feedback is having a negative impact on the enthusiasm of small business […]
What Obstacles Are Involved When Using Gamification as a Training Method?
Gamification is an effective tool to make training engaging and fun, because it uses the “dynamics of games,” such as collaboration, chance, and progression, to tap learners’ intrinsic desire to master and complete tasks, says Monica Cornetti, founder and CEO of Sententia Games.
Active Listening Allows You to Hear What is Being Said By Dan Oswald
When I was in elementary school, it wasn’t unusual for my report card to come home with a note from the teacher at the bottom that read something like, “Danny is well-behaved, but he must learn not to talk so much in class.” I somehow escaped the “Danny” moniker by middle school, but that’s a […]
How to Increase Employee Engagement and Retention with ‘Stay’ Interviews
By Erin Pappo, client services director, Camden Consulting Group As most HR professionals understand too well, turnover hurts a company’s bottom line, and it also ruins morale for the employees left behind. Workers in the U.S. have an average job tenure of approximately 4.6 years and 45% of employers now expect new college grads to […]
Raise Your Employee Survey Participation Rates
Time for another employee survey? We all know it’s an important tool for your business, but how do you ensure good participation numbers when everyone is so busy most of the time? Yesterday we explored how to communicate results. Here are some tips to get employees participating in the first place:
Have Performance Reviews Outlived Their Usefulness?
Yesterday we began to explore the state of performance reviews with Lisa Bodell of futurethink. Today we’ll look at what some major companies have done with their performance reviews.
Benefit from Stay Interviews with Action
In yesterday’s Advisor, we explored how the stay interview can help lower your turnover rates. Today we’ll see what else you can gain from these interviews.