It’s no exaggeration to say that your people managers make or break your organization’s performance. They form the critical layer of connective tissue between the strategic priorities of your business and the employees who execute them, and play an outsized role in motivating employees and improving the performance across the workforce. Good managers align their teams around ... Read Full Article
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Different Goals for Different Roles: The Betterworks Guide to Departmental OKRs
Truly motivating a workforce requires nurturing a sense of purpose. Two primary ways of achieving this are providing employees with continuous coaching and feedback from managers who are authentically involved in the employee’s development, and ensuring each employee’s work is aligned to the company’s top goals. The OKR (Objectives and Key Results) methodology is a great ... Read Full Article
Five Conversations You Need to Have to Motivate Employees
Companies today are increasingly aware that the traditional annual performance review is ineffective when it comes to actually increasing employee performance. In fact, just 12% of respondents to a Deloitte survey indicated that this process was highly effective in driving business value, while only 6% of organizations responded their current process for managing performance is ... Read Full Article
5 Ways HR Can Help “Upgrade” Their Managers
Betterworks recently surveyed more than 756 people in HR and people management roles working within US-based enterprises across a wide range of industries, each with more than 500 employees. And amongst these professionals, there was almost universal agreement that people managers are the linchpins that unlock greater levels of performance in any organization. Good managers ... Read Full Article
5 Ways HR Can Benefit from People Analytics
“Next-generation performance management technologies already enable integration with data from areas like sales, marketing, or customer management. Machine learning and artificial intelligence can help turn this data into actionable insights around promotions, compensation, development opportunities, and career moves.” Josh Bersin, Merging Performance Management and People ... Read Full Article
The Performance Management Software Market is Heating Up
There’s a sea change happening around employee performance management. HR and business leaders are realizing that the old model of annual performance reviews is ineffective for today’s workforce, with the majority of HR professionals agreeing that a Continuous Performance Management® model is superior to an annual or bi-annual review process. This is a reflection ... Read Full Article