bagWould you like fries, drink, and a cone with your Employee Performance Management system? emPerform has always been the Burger King of EPM systems where customers can configure and customize the software “their way”. In addition to the vast configuration options available with emPerform appraisal forms, customers can expand their functionality with succession planning, goal alignment, 360 reviews, compensation management, and reporting – at no extra cost!  On occasion, customers turn to us for advice when selecting other HR software. To fill this need, emPerform has joined forces with other leading technology vendors: myStaffingPro,  BambooHR, and Strategia. This collaboration has created a powerful, affordable, and complete HR software as a service (SaaS) solution, HR in the Cloud™. Read More

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Effective employee goal setting can serve as a powerful tool for:
–    Motivating employees
–    Improving employee performance
–    Developing organizational talent
–    Setting measurable standards for review
–    Translating organization objectives into results
–    Fostering communication with employees

 

Goal setting can also be a frustrating process if it is not tackled properly. The most frustrating part of goal setting and execution is when the outcomes do not match what was expected. Managers tend to assume that the employee will execute according to their vision and then are confused when the outcomes don’t match the intended direction. What is wrong with the process?

Marnie Green, Principal Consultant of Management Education Group and emPerform’s newest partner, teaches leaders that the problem with effective goal setting lies in the lack of clear expectations being set by managers. Marnie believes that whether you are setting goals, objectives, or assigning tasks, outcomes can be optimized by following a checklist for setting clear expectations.

 

•    Establish clear success criteria: When setting and conveying expectations, managers should always say, ‘this goal/task/objective will be successful if….” and then fill in the Read More

CRG emPerform and the Management Education Group recently announced a very exciting partnership. We caught up with their principal consultant, Marnie Green, at the ASHHRA Conference in Phoenix to see what she has to say about aligning with emPerform.

emPerform offers web-based, all-inclusive talent management software for automating employee performance management processes such as appraisals, succession, 360 reviews, compensation management, reporting, and goal alignment. The Management Education Group, Inc., is an Arizona-based provider of consulting, training, and facilitation services that develop high-performing public sector leaders. Government agencies, special districts, and educational institutions rely on the Management Education Group, Inc. to provide innovative leadership strategies that support their leaders.

Marnie Green is the author of Painless Performance Evaluations: A Practical Approach to Managing Day-to-Day Employee Performance, published by Pearson/Prentice Hall. The book has been honored with a Glyph Award for Best Business/Career Book and was a finalist in the management category of the Best Books USA Awards.

emPerform and Marnie Green have collaborated on several very successful best-practice webinars including: ‘Conducting Painless Performance Evaluation Meetings’ and recently, ‘Using SMAART Goals to Manage Employee Performance’. These resources have been archived and are available here.

For more information about this partnership, click here.

Increasing your Feedback IQPeople are constantly getting and giving feedback in their daily lives – whether it is explicit through words or writing, or implicit through tone of voice or gestures. Feedback is an observation and evaluation of a particular action and can be highly effective for reinforcing or developing behavior, particularly when it comes to developing employee performance. The term feedback is defined as a ‘reaction’; however, we encourage organizations to think of employee feedback as carefully thought out mini-evaluations that take place continually – not just once a year.

Structured, ongoing, and proper feedback is a powerful tool for managing and improving employee performance. Unfortunately for managers and leaders, giving timely feedback is not Read More