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The Performance Appraisal Solution

I’ve seen more articles lately about the failures of performance appraisals than just about anything else.  And, it seems that the only logical answer is to abolish them.  You can read some of these...

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Competency Assessments: Going Beyond Regulatory Requirements

An increasing number of healthcare organizations are looking for new and innovative ways to support competency assessment programs. The traditional paper and pen tracking systems are becoming more...

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Performance Appraisals – Why Do We Do Them?

So, why do we do performance appraisals?  I have been around for quite awhile and I’m still not sure.  Let’s review the traditional reasons HR tells line managers… 1. People need to know where they...

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The Science of Praise: A Manager’s Guide To Giving Effective Employee Praise

Praise can be a funny thing. When we’re kids – as a study published in Psychology Today shows – we can respond negatively to praise. The article provides examples of a 5-year-old who “burst into...

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Leadership Development: Strong, Skilled, Successful

The following is a guest post by leadership consultant and award-winning author Sylvia Lafair. In this post, Sylvia discusses leadership development and the qualities and characteristics of effective...

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Improving Employee Performance In 3 Simple Steps: A Restaurant Case Study

The following is a guest post by Greg McGuire, editor of food services blog The Back Burner. In this post Greg discusses how restaurants can maximize employee performance by creating a corporate...

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6 Common Questions About HR Metrics Answered

As an HR professional, you collect a wealth of talent data. And no matter how that data is stored – in filing cabinets, spreadsheets or through an automated system – you need to measure and analyze...

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How Good is Your Performance Data?

For many of my readers, you know that I am a huge proponent of analyzing performance data combined with other HR and customer data to increase organizational and individual performance. In the past we...

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7 Best Practices for Managing Remote Employees

In today’s wired world, information can reach many places at once, in real-time, and this has had a radical effect on the way business is conducted today. Given the proper resources, a computer, an...

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Manage Performance, Don’t Mangle It

How did we get to a point where the term performance management instills fear and dread at its mere utterance? Employees tend to loathe the process, which is commonly perceived to be little more than a...

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Top 5 Critical HR Priorities: #5 Performance, Planning, HR Effectiveness

Recognize This! – HR priorities are many. Solving one can be the solution to many others. Concluding my week-long series on the Top 5 Critical HR Priorities for 2011 from the Corporate Leadership...

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Incentives For Their Own Sake?

It’s fairly common these days to find articles written by those who advocate increasing the eligibility of employee incentives. Their recommendation is to push inclusion further and further down the...

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The Failure of the Annual Performance Review

Recognize This! – Annual feedback (if that) does little to motivate, inspire or keep employees on track. Our semi-annual survey of U.S employees, the Globoforce® Workforce Mood Tracker™, found an...

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Negativists in the Workplace: How to Identify and Handle Negativity at Work

Organizational negativity can take on many forms and happen for many reasons. Improper or unreasonable working conditions, lack of career advancement opportunities, or badly implemented corporate and...

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Getting Your Managers on Board with Talent Management – Part 1

While I’m sure that most of your organization’s managers act with the best of intentions, you’ll probably agree that when it comes to being the frontline stewards of your talent management strategy,...

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The Benefits of Hiring Overqualified Candidates

“I have 10 years of experience, I have strong references, excellent connections, but I can’t find a job because I’m overqualified.” This is the story that many newly unemployed, ‘overqualified’ job...

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Getting Your Managers on Board with Talent Management – Part 2

This is our second post in a 5-part series on ‘Getting Your Managers on Board with Talent Management’. In our last post, we discussed how to get your managers to deliver effective feedback.  Today we...

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Why are doing Performance Appraisals and Performance Management?

This was a key question at a recent client meeting, where the desire was to find a new way to implement performance appraisals and performance management in a way that was productive and engaging. We...

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Motivation and Engagement: Hey Managers – Get Out of the Way

Have you seen that terrific Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) video Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us? If you haven’t, take a few minutes and watch it now. It’s really thought provoking. RSA...

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“Put Me In Coach”: 5 Ways To Effectively Get Your Gen Y Employees to Perform

Onboarding new young professionals to peak performance requires everyone involved with their success– from hiring manager to trainer to direct supervisor – to meet young new hires where they are and...

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