Business Operations & Logistics
Annual Reviews Are Lazy — Here’s How to Actually Learn From Your Work
Do post-mortems — and even pre-mortems — regularly, not just annually, to learn and keep your team aligned.
Performance Reviews
Business Operations & Logistics
Employees are Turning the Tables — How Entrepreneurs Should Change Their Annual Employee Reviews
By Scott Snider
Building a Business
It’s Time to Prioritize Regular Performance Reviews — Here’s Why Reviews Are Essential for Employee and Company Growth
Regular check-ins, focused discussions about goals and progress and constructive feedback build a thriving work environment.
Thought Leaders
A Student in an Ivy League University’s Most Popular MBA Leadership Class Asked a Tough Question: What If Your Boss’s Downfall Is Necessary to Get Ahead?
The GenAI-powered coach from Mentora Institute, the global institute dedicated to developing exemplary leaders and accelerating performance, was ready to answer.
By Amanda Breen
Thought Leaders
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.
Building 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.
By Tim Madden
Thought Leaders
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.
By Max Azarov
Business Plan
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.
By Eric Butow
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.
By Amanda Breen
Building 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.
Thought Leaders
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.
Thought Leaders
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.
By Matt Auron
Thought Leaders
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.
By Julie Kratz
Human Resources
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.
Thought Leaders
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.
Human Resources
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.
Entrepreneurs
Tips to Increase Your Team’s Productivity
Here are some ways to foster growth in your organization by improving interactions with your team.
Thought Leaders
How to Conduct Employee Performance Reviews That Reduce Stress
Too many leaders limit the potential of an effective assessment.
Thought Leaders
4 Things Leaders Misunderstand About Performance Reviews
Workers crave feedback, but feedback loops often go wrong.
By Rashan Dixon
Human Resources
It’s Time to Reinvent Your Performance Reviews. Your Employees Will Thank You for It.
Businesses have been struggling with ineffective performance review models for decades. A strategy that works? Consider a user-centric platform.
By Tania Fiero
Building a Business
5 Tactics for Transforming Performance Reviews That Range From Ineffectual to Invaluable
Employee appraisals that improve performance are essential to reaching company goals.
Thought Leaders
A Brutal Performance Review Helped Sweetgreen’s CEO Manage Everything Better
Jonathan Neman shares what he learned from getting an evaluation from co-founders, employees and family.
Business News
Amazon’s Program for Underperforming Employees Includes a Courtroom-Style Videoconference With a Jury of Peers
While experts agree it's innovative, they're split on whether it works.
Thought Leaders
The Performance-Management Secret Only 1 in 5 Companies Knows
A survey of over 25,800 companies showed that fully 20 percent had dumped dreaded annual performance ratings.
Thought Leaders
How Reflexively Apologizing for Everything All the Time Undermines Your Career
How can you inspire confidence if you are constantly saying you're sorry for doing your job?
Thought Leaders
Why I Stopped Doing Annual Employee Reviews
Why wait months to discuss problems that matter now?
Thought Leaders
Want Your Employees to Be High Performers? Tie Goals to Rewards Like Extra Days Off or Cold Hard Cash.
Follow these tips to align rewards with goals to achieve high performance.
Thought Leaders
Stop! You’re Demoralizing Employees With Reviews! And Frequency Isn’t the Reason.
One place to start is to learn the difference between "situational" and "dispositional" feedback.