Having Difficult Conversations with Employees: Actionable Advice
Nobody enjoys having difficult conversations with employees, but from time to time, they are necessary to ensure continual performance improvement. Use our top…
Managing Poor Performance: Checklist for Development and Recovery
When you start to notice poor performance from employees, the best step you can take is quick and decisive action to get them back on track. Follow our poor…
What is Continuous Feedback and How Does it Work?
Continuous feedback is a substitute for annual appraisals; it’s dialogue between employees and managers which is ongoing and focused on results rather than…
Ongoing Feedback Definition: What Makes It Truly "Ongoing"?
As more and more businesses recognise the ineffectiveness of annual appraisals, ongoing feedback has become more and more popular — but not everyone agrees on…
Addressing Conflict Avoidance in the Workplace
Conflict is a performance management issue that needs to be addressed, not ignored. To some, conflict avoidance might sound like a good thing. So many of us…
Radical Candour: A New Approach to Performance Management
Could this performance management trend turn your company around? A lot has been said about 'radical candour' — an increasingly popular performance management…
7 Discussion Points to Cover during Performance Conversations
Here’s a Step-by-Step Guide of What Discussion Points to Raise During Employee One-on-Ones and Coaching Sessions
The Importance of Real-Time Communication to Remote Working
Five reasons your performance management system needs to maintain open lines of communication with telecommuters. Remote working is becoming increasingly…
Video - How to move from appraisals to year-round performance management
Learn why appraisals don’t drive performance and find out what leading organisations such as IBM, Deloitte and Microsoft have adopted instead.