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How to Run Effective Review Meetings

Performance reviews are essential, but employees find the experience abhorrent. So, what can you do to deliver performance reviews better? To deliver effective reviews, you have to start early in the year by setting clear goals and expectations. And when it is time, you have to structure meetings in advance, provide feedback in a personalized manner, and follow up after the review. Set the stage early Performance reviews start at the beginning of the year with employees setting their goals. Here, you should set clear expectations for your reports and evaluation criteria that you will use for reviews later. Then, a couple of weeks before the review meeting, you can ask employees for a self-appraisal: their wins, losses, strengths, weaknesses, and learnings. Structure your meeting Avoid going with the flow and structure your review meetings. Like a movie script with three acts, you can deliver the review in three parts: explain the objectives, use tough or love, and let them respond. St...
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How to boost performance with transparent goals

Top-down, cascading goal-setting doesn't work as it used to in today's hybrid, agile, and global business environments. It creates a culture of silos, reduces team alignment and agility, and encourages thoughtless tasks-driven execution. Research and real-world success stories suggest that making your goals open to your entire organization produces better results. The world's most successful companies, such as Google, Amazon, Deloitte, GE, Intel, Netflix, and Samsung, have transparent goals. Here's how: Use OKRs OKRs, or Objectives (What) and Key Results (How), is one of the most popular goal-setting frameworks. OKRs are public for everyone to see what objectives the company is trying to achieve and what others are working on. Using OKR s brings transparency and agility into your goal-setting. Read more about OKRs: Here, here, and here. Share goals, context, and results Communicate your organizational goals (the "Whats" and "Hows") with everyone in t...

How to Help Your Team Find Purpose and Boost Performance

Why a sense of purpose is so powerful A recent Gallup research showed that the more engaged the employees, the better their performance—even during the pandemic. Highly engaged teams outperformed on 11 business KPIs, including productivity, turnover, and profitability. Why are some employees more engaged than others? Why do some perform better under the same conditions? While there are many factors at work here, one stands out: purpose. Employees who find their purpose fulfilled at work are better in every way. Purpose gives meaning to people's lives, and not just at work. According to a McKinsey survey, 70% of employees said their sense of purpose is defined by work. The pandemic has made purpose even more critical to a company's success. While everyone struggles in one way or another, having a purpose at work gives it a meaning beyond making a living. How to help your employees with their purpose When you help your employees feel purposeful at work: engagement, productivity,...

How Performance Reviews Impact 3 Tiers of Success

Conducting performance reviews are important for any organization for various reasons. Firstly let’s try and understand what performance reviews are.  A performance review is a two-way, individualized conversation between a manager and an employee about performance impact, development, and growth. It is a critical component of an organization’s overall performance management strategy. Traditionally, performance reviews have occurred once a year and have focused on evaluating past performance. Modern performance reviews should happen quarterly or monthly and should focus on driving and improving future performance. Performance impact 3 tiers of success: Employee success: Performance conversations are perfect opportunities to make or break trust. An open, honest, and regular dialogue helps to build trust among employees, managers, and the organization at large. Employees want to know—and deserve to know—exactly where they stand in terms of performance. Ongoing performance conversati...

Know the Advantage of Performance Management Software Tool

Knowing the work status of employees is the most important part to run the business efficiently. Being the boss you should be aware of what’s going in the office and you should be aware of tasks an employee is doing on a daily basis.  But having so many members in the team makes it a difficult job to manage all the ongoing things? This is where a Performance Management Tool can be used. Through this you can get the better idea of the work and the strengths and weaknesses of each employee. Then you can work on them and add a lot of benefits to the business. That certain push is always important at the workplace with which you can keep yourself motivated and work. Proper management plays a necessary role in it.A certain target or goal is set up and each team member needs to work towards achieving that goal by engaging in some tasks. These can be monitored and their timelines can be checked using such a tool. Check the work progress through  performance management Software  ...

The Various Reasons Behind Using Performance Management Software

Performance reviews are such a significant feature of businesses. HR managers and leaders are able to make pay decisions because of review periods, find out how each employee contributes to organizational success, and of course, weed out inconsistent performers. When organizations are tiny or have a very simple review process, traditional performance processes work fine. But there is a need for performance management software to boost the process, or rather, software to ease the process, once organizations get bigger and job functions get more complex. Reasons To Use Performance Management Software 1. Ease Of Use One of the primary reasons for using performance management software is that it can be incredibly easy to use. Most software has built-in reminders that will enable staff to finish the review phase. The performance management tool takes the pressure off the shoulders of HR and encourages them instead to concentrate on the results of performance evaluations rather than the whol...

Performance Management Tool – Four Good Reasons Why You Need One

 Checking performance and the growth related to it is very important for any organization. It is very important to keep a check on the performance of employees so that company and individual can grow. In a team for the high performers, overlooking to their work, performance management tool is very important. It is very reliable and important for good job. Being an employee if you really want good results and appraisal process then make sure you are checking all your work under this tool.  If you haven’t tried the software yet, here are some of the compelling reasons why you need it. 1. It is easy to achieve anything for the high performers as they always want to their best and to do the same they are just dedicated towards their     1` ob. They always try to make big deal out of small options. Whereas the average employees are not so much dedicated and just work for money. So with the social performance management software you can recognize the average and the int...