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Performance Management
Demotion
The idea of demoting an employee may be worrisome. Demotion is a delicate process that can strengthen or destroy the employee’s relationship with the company. Read on for best practices on how to guide the process positively.
Intrinsic Motivation
Are you concerned with motivating your employees? Here are a few tips to help you and your organization discover what truly matters to your employees and utilize intrinsic motivation to improve employee engagement.
Extrinsic Motivation
How do we motivate employees? This question has been asked by many employers time and time again. The answer lies in understanding how employees are extrinsically motivated.
Performance Improvement Plans
What can you do when a previously great employee has stopped performing beautifully or your new hire just isn’t stacking up to your hopes? Read on for all the tips and advice you need to write, deliver and close a solid performance improvement plan (PIP).
When They Win, You Win – Being a Great Manager w/ Russ Laraway
In episode 51, we sat down with Russ Laraway to learn more about what makes a strong leader, how employee engagement affects performance, and the steps that good (or even not-so-good) managers can take to become great managers.
Creating and Keeping High Performing Teams w/ Molly McGrath
In episode 49, we talk with Molly McGrath about a few ways to motivate superstar team members to stay with a company.
Multi-Rater Feedback
Do you struggle with getting employees useful feedback? There are many ways to help employees evaluate and improve their performance. Multi-rater feedback is one such technique, and it carries many pros and cons. Read on to learn if multi-rater feedback can be effective for your organization.
Employee Evaluation
Anyone who has ever worked in a company knows that employee evaluations are a fact of life. It's important to have some form of system in place to track employee progress and make sure they are meeting the standards of the company. But do employees really understand what their evaluation is all about? And more importantly, how can they use it to improve their work performance? In this article, we'll take a closer look at employee evaluations and what you need to know to make the most of them.
Building the Framework for Happier, More Productive Employees w/ Chase Cragun
In episode 30, we talk with Chase Cragun to learn more about building the framework for happier, more productive employees.
Promotions
Giving employee promotions is one of the best parts of your job, and turning down an employee promotion can be one of the worst. How do you appropriately turn down one employee while fostering positivity about advancing another? Read on to learn this and more when it comes to promotions.
Planning Your 2022 Employee Engagement Strategy w/ Logan Mallory
In episode 21, we sat down with Logan Mallory to learn about why businesses, especially small businesses, should be thinking about their employee engagement strategies—right now—for the year ahead.
OKRs
Would you or your company benefit from higher productivity? Greater inspiration? Read this article to learn more about why Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, said “Good ideas with great execution are how you make magic. That’s where OKRs come in.”
One-on-Ones
One-on-one meetings have become an expected part of management. What is their value, and what makes them effective? Here's how to use one-on-ones wisely and have a positive impact on an employees' morale, productivity, and relationship with their manager.
Performance Review
Performance reviews are an opportunity to celebrate the employee and identify what opportunities are next for them. This data then helps the organization measure the efficacy of their talent and make better decisions. Read on to learn more on why performance reviews are important and the types of performance reviews that exist. In addition, discover what you as HR can do to help ensure effective reviews, how to conduct a performance review and what questions to ask during the performance review.
360 Review
Who knows an employee best? Arguably, the sum total of everyone they work with. 360-degree reviews enlist the help and feedback of all those who interact with an employee in different ways to get a holistic picture of their performance. However, they may also cause resentment and undermine transparent cultures. Let's explore the pros and cons of the 360 review.
Bell Curve Performance Management
How is your performance management system working? Is it fair? Does it determine raises and promotions? Does it encourage employees to collaborate? Traditional concepts such as bell curve (or “forced ranking”) performance management have been accused of treating employees unfairly and too harshly, but some companies struggle to identify a realistic and effective alternative. Read on for help in evaluating your system and considering potential options.
Driving Employee Engagement and Retention at Your Organization w/ Kelley McCart
In episode 13 we talk with Kelley McCart to understand the different between engagement, motivation, and drive and what HR professionals can do to help drive better engagement and retention in the workplace.
Employee Engagement
HR is demanding, and it seems every task is crucial. You may feel you're pedaling as fast as you can to take care of the basics—but there is one area you ignore at your peril. Employee engagement is how committed your workers are to the company, how hard they work and how long they stay, and it's something you can impact.
Continue reading to learn what employee engagement is, the importance of keeping your employees engaged, how to improve it, and how to measure your efforts.
Continue reading to learn what employee engagement is, the importance of keeping your employees engaged, how to improve it, and how to measure your efforts.
