Performance Reviews

Leadership

Tough Feedback Can Really Sting. Here's How to Take It With Grace and Turn It Into Power.

When we receive tough feedback, our first inclination is usually to recoil. But, if you follow these five steps, you'll enjoy receiving critical feedback more than ever before.

Leadership

5 Practical Strategies for Instilling a Culture of Compliance in Your Team

Instilling an authentic culture of ethics and compliance across your organization requires a multidimensional approach with involvement from all leaders.

Growing a Business

Are You In A Dead-End Job? Here Are The Tell-Tale Signs

As an executive-level headhunter with extensive experience placing top talents in major Fortune 500 companies, I've witnessed firsthand the importance of recognizing and avoiding dead-end career paths. In this article, I'll shed light on key indicators that can help you determine if it's time to look for new opportunities.

Leadership

How to Transform Your Management and Leadership Style With 360 Reviews

The potential impact that a 360 review has on an organization depends on the quality of the feedback and the insights it provides.

Business Plans

How to Use Your Business Plan to Track Performance

By regularly referencing your plan, you can gauge your company's health and make necessary adjustments.

Business News

Forget Employee Feedback, 'Feedforward' Is the Latest Workplace Trend — If You're Not Doing It, You Might Be Irrelevant Already

Stop dreading your yearly performance reviews and start becoming irreplaceable.

Leadership

How to Motivate an Employee After a Poor Performance Review

Use it as an opportunity to inspire a professional turnaround for your employee.

Growing a Business

5 Essential Steps to Drive a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Discover how to unlock your organization's potential for growth and innovation by fostering a culture of continuous improvement, leading to increased productivity, employee engagement, and long-term success.

Leadership

What's the Actual Cost of Unproductive Employees? It's More Than You Think.

In the business world, unproductive employees can be like pebbles in your shoe. They may not be immediately noticeable, but the impact on your organization's performance can be serious.

Leadership

The Key to Having More Effective 1-on-1 Meetings With Your Employees

Meetings get a bad rap, one-on-one meetings included. But they don't have to be cumbersome. They can actually be … great. Here's how.

Leadership

If You Haven't Removed Bias from Performance Reviews, Then You're Not an Inclusive Leader. Take These Steps to Protect Your Marginalized Employees.

Performance reviews are critical to pay, promotion and assignment opportunities — but they often hurt employees in marginalized groups, thanks to biases. Here are some to watch out for and how to remove them from your reviews.

Culture

Employers: Productivity Among Your Remote Workers Isn't A Problem — Your Proximity Bias Is.

False intuitions of older, traditionalist leaders cause many to mistrust the productivity and performance of hybrid and remote workers. To address these false beliefs and address proximity bias, companies have to change their performance evaluations to measure deliverables, not passive presence.

Leadership

Winning Includes Putting People First in Your Business. This is How You Do It.

Don't make the classic mistake of thinking that treating people like humans is bad for your bottom line.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

How to Manage Your Organization Solely Through Performance Statistics

Being able to measure productivity for every single employee -- including you -- is vital to the success of any company.

Productivity

Tips to Increase Your Team's Productivity

Here are some ways to foster growth in your organization by improving interactions with your team.