For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), driving employee engagement and improving performance is crucial for long-term success. One underutilized strategy is incorporating skip-level meetings into your performance management cycles. These meetings, where employees meet with leaders two or more levels above them, offer unique insights, foster transparency, and can significantly boost employee engagement and performance. […]
Giving feedback isn’t easy! However, it’s something managers must do to keep employees engaged and informed. Failing to provide feedback or allowing bias to creep into the process are equally concerning and may result in disengagement, loss of productivity, and cultural rifts. Today, we’ll discuss how to give feedback, outline the common struggles and […]
As we approach the mid-year mark, it’s essential to reflect on your team’s progress, identify areas for improvement, and set goals for the second half of the year. Mid-year reviews are a valuable opportunity to enhance communication, boost morale, and align everyone’s efforts with organizational objectives. To help you conduct effective and impactful reviews, we’ve […]
A recent study showed that less than 20% of millennial employees surveyed say they receive regular feedback from their manager. Don’t make employees hunt for feedback – give managers the tools needed to engage in ongoing & effective feedback, check-ins and coaching. Help boost the frequency & quality of employee feedback in your organization with […]
Improve Your Coaching Skills by Understanding the Psychology of Feedback. Do you ever wonder why it’s so difficult to give and receive feedback in the workplace? Many owners and managers struggle with pointing out areas of improvement for their employees. Employees, in turn, often have a hard time hearing they aren’t performing up to standards […]
Millennials need frequent, consistent, and constructive feedback in order to thrive at work. Here are some tips for helping ensure your millennial talent is getting the right amount of feedback. Did you know that more than one in three current employees in the United States are millennials? Millennials, or those between the ages of 19-35 […]
Using 360° reviews, pulse surveys & ongoing feedback to identify and address toxic behavior before it spreads in your organization. Last week I sat down at my desk armed with a hot coffee and a stack of some of my favorite HR Publications. I usually save them up then binge-read them once every few weeks […]
How introducing simple performance logs into your organization can take the chill out of appraisal season. Appraisal season is that wonderful time of year when managers everywhere sit down to regroup and determine if their team is performing at the levels expected of them in their roles. It’s also the perfect time for managers and […]
For generations, supervisors across every industry have been dogged by a similar question during the review process: How can feedback, both positive and negative, be delivered in a way that actually makes employee performance improve? How can constructive criticism be delivered without de-motivating employees, and how can praise be delivered in a way that supports […]
Driving Employee Performance through Year-Round Painless Performance Conversations Date: Wed, June 18th, 2014 Time: 1:00 PM EDT Conversations transform organizations and entire organizations suffer when leaders fail to have continuous conversations that drive performance improvement. Join us for this practical and interactive webinar that will offer real-life, tangible solutions and tools leaders need to tackle […]
