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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

How to Conquer Zombies and Execute on SMART Performance Goals

Wallpaper Sizes: 1024x768 1280x1024 1280x800 1600x1200 1920x1200 2560x1600 11286x8464 (printable) Feel like you are surrounded by zombies?
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Scarier than Ghosts and Goblins: The Dark Truth about Performance Appraisal

Business these days is set to drive, forward, full-speed ahead. However, this is only one reason why Human Resources has such a difficult time getting managers to focus on the Year End Performance Appraisal Process every Fall season. While everyone understands the importance of reviewing performance at year-end, it seems so difficult to make time for this with our constant forward-focused vision and “stay ahead of what’s around the bend” attitude.
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360 DEGREE FEEDBACK

3 Pitfalls to Avoid in Performance Appraisal ...or on America's Got Talent

Evaluating performance is one of the most important aspects of employee performance management. In order to develop employees and keep them engaged, employees must receive performance feedback that is not only an accurate assessment of their actual performance, but also identifies both their strengths and development areas. Unfortunately, managers do not seem to have as much fun evaluating performance as Sharon Osbourne or Piers Morgan do on America's Got Talent. Often times, managers are overwhelmed by the performance appraisal process and struggle to spend enough time on the actual appraisal of performance.
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

7 Steps to Becoming a Performance Appraisal Process Rock Star!

The performance appraisal meeting is, by far, the most dreaded part of the performance appraisal process. In order to handle the performance appraisal like a rock star, you must be doing the right things year round. The foundation for an effective performance appraisal meeting is built one stone at a time, throughout the course of the performance period. During performance planning, individual performance goals and measures are agreed upon. This process creates a mutually acceptable yardstick for evaluating performance effectiveness. Through the monitoring of performance and periodic performance update sessions, the employee acquires a clear understanding of interim performance. Thus, the path has been paved for reduced subjectivity and stress in the performance appraisal meeting.
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HR SOFTWARE

HR Technology makes Employee Performance Management SMARTT

The classic research on goal setting and motivation theory states that individuals are more likely to be motivated to perform by creating their own specific goals and working toward those performance goals while receiving feedback on their progress. This theory is summarized using the anagram, SMART, which means Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (also see our whitepaper: SMART Performance Goals).
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

It's Fashion Week....Time to Re-Focus on Performance Goals

Aahhhh....the week after Labor Day. I have always viewed this time of the year fondly. As a kid, this time of year offered limitless possibilities and a totebag full of new school supplies. These days it offers renewed energy, fall clothes shopping and of course, Fashion Week in NYC.
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

In Search of the Perfect Diamond - The 4 C's of Performance Goals

Creating a balanced set of Performance Goals in the employee performance management process is a challenge for all managers....maybe even more challenging that finding the perfect diamond.
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HR SOFTWARE

The Evolution of Employee Performance Management Technology

An Interview with Lead Developer, Yuriy Shikhanovich on the evolution of employee performance management technology. Once upon a time, in a dark corner cubicle, across from the fax machine and Goliath copier, sat a young bright-eyed intern sorting through stacks of paper and occasionally stopping to peck some data into Excel 3.1. She feverishly worked to enter the 360 degree feedback results into the spreadsheet so that she could begin analyzing the manager’s data.
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Great Employee Performance Management Means Back to Basics

Ensuring the achievement of organizational goals is dependent upon effective employee performance management. In our recently published Whitepaper entitled, Goal Alignment: How Successful Organizations Social-Network Performance Management, my colleague, Dr. Amanda Seidler, and I discuss the challenges organizations face in using goal setting and goal alignment to reap the benefits of effective employee performance management. Bottom line: Technology that is easy-to-use and seamlessly fits into your business processes will bring about success.
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