Topics: Performance, Recruitment

Topics: Performance, Managed Workforce, team, Office

 

Topics: Performance, Company Culture, Job Seekers, Workplace, Job Hunt, Career

Managers rate performance reviews right behind firing someone as their top two most disliked activities. How bizarre is that? Giving constructive feedback, mentoring, training, and improving the performance of their staff should be their number one motivation.

Topics: Performance, Company Culture, Employees, managers, review, feedback

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a company is only as strong as its lowest-performing employees. At first, this analogy may appear to be an overreach–after all, how can one or even a handful of poorly performing workers affect the success of an entire organization?

Topics: Performance, Human Resources

Corporate value is increasingly dependent on employees, and talent optimization is becoming a serious business issue.

Topics: Human Resources Insights, Performance, Workforce

One of the central themes I write about is the tremendous power of recognition and reward to increase engagement, drive behavior, and motivate employees. Rewards, praise, and community all play a role in this process—and the basic principles of social psychology, positive feedback, and operant conditioning make it clear why this works.

Topics: Performance, Human Resources

In the late 1990s, bestselling-authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman partnered with Gallup to figure out what makes great managers great. Twenty-five years of cumulative data and more than 80,000 manager interviews later, they found that while great managers differed in everything from rank to gender, age, race, location and more, they also had a common thread: Every single one excelled at transforming employee talent into employee performance.

Topics: Labor & Industrial Insights, Performance, Workforce

Question:

My employee sent me a scathing email in response to a performance evaluation I just gave her. She has contacted her attorney and has threatened to quit. At this point I just want to fire her. How should I respond?

Topics: Human Resources Insights, Performance, Employees

Most leaders receive surprisingly little development before assuming their first supervisory roles. In fact, many get no leadership training at all until they’ve been in the executive ranks for nearly a decade–reaching, on average, age 42.

Topics: Human Resources Insights, Performance, Workforce