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Six HR Metrics to Quantify and Track Manager Effectiveness

Like coaches in sports and leaders in the military, your company’s managers can drive the whole company to success or failure. Even with highly experienced managers, stereotypes like Bill Lumbergh in “Office Space” exist for a reason.  More than ⅓ of employees have considered quitting their jobs because of new, inexperienced managers (source: Bloomberg) Employees […]

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Understanding 9-Box Reporting for Performance Management

Employee reviews need to accurately judge an employee’s recent performance as well as future potential. An easy framework for combining these two critical metrics and sorting employees into categories is a simple 9-box grid. Some judgment calls involve a lot of potential for bias and subjectivity, but clearly defined metrics can make assessments more fair.  […]

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Tips for Setting, Measuring, and Tracking Employee Goals

Vague goals, like New Year’s resolutions, are easily forgotten. A resolution to “get healthy” might not last a week while you debate investing in a gym membership. Likewise, employee goals need even more detailed structure than fitness goals, including measuring and tracking progress.  How can companies ensure employee goals are not only appropriately set, but […]

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7 Must-Haves for Successful Employee Review Process

Your company’s employee review process says a lot about your company culture. Reviews aren’t just a designated time to tell workers how to improve their performance. Rather, the employee review process has the potential to improve employee engagement and overall company culture. It is easy for the employee review process to veer off-course: With HR […]

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Discover the Benefits of Performance Management Software

Performance reviews have been a staple of businesses everywhere for decades. Unfortunately, despite their consistent presence in workplaces, the review process itself has grown stale. For many businesses, performance reviews occur once a year. The dread is placed upon employees and managers alike, often yielding inaccurate data and a failure to enact any real, positive change. But […]

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6 Effective Tips for Managing Underperforming Employees

The American workforce has undergone a seismic shift in the past few years. When it comes to performance, underperforming employees present a special challenge. How can HR and managers address and improve the work of underperforming employees with Performance Management software? Communicate regularly The first thing to assess is the frequency of your communication. For […]

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Performance Management: Collecting and Utilizing The Right Employee Review Data

Performance reviews might seem simple and self-explanatory at first, but they require careful preparation beforehand and detailed analysis afterward. Team leaders might feel they know which employees are doing better than others (and they’re usually correct), but it would be dangerous to improvise reviews without objective performance metrics to guide the discussion. When performance management […]

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When Employment Is Impersonal, Courtesy Goes Out the Door

March 21, 2019 Written by the HR Pros In December, The Washington Post reported on an odd, eyebrow-raising phenomenon in the working world: employees are “ghosting” their employers. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, ghosting is an unfortunately common practice in the dating scene. It occurs when someone breaks off a relationship without warning or […]

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