Organizations that continuously motivate employees reach their business goals faster than those that don’t. This makes developing an engaging, performance-based employee environment the primary aim of forward-thinking HR leaders. One characteristic of successful teams is trust. People need to feel psychological safety within their work teams and the ability to speak freely ... Read Full Article
When it Comes to Motivating Employees, More Conversations Are Essential
Developing and nurturing a motivated workforce is one of the single most important things any organization can do to secure and maintain competitive advantage. But it seems that most companies aren’t doing a good job, as according to Gallup a staggering 87% of employees around the world report feeling disengaged at work. There are many factors contributing to this extremely ... Read Full Article
How to Use Recognition to Retain Your Top Talent
Your CEO’s top worries are workforce related. The Global Leadership Forecast 2018 from DDI reported that building a leadership pipeline and retaining their top talent are worry #1 and #2. And they are right to worry, because a motivated workforce is truly a competitive advantage that ensures today’s top priorities are achieved and that people are learning, developing and ... Read Full Article
To Boost Results From Your Performance Management Program, Focus on Helping Your Managers
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
Why Your Company NEEDS to Transition to Continuous Performance Management
For many companies, a “performance management program” still takes the form of annual reviews. This is a problem because despite huge investments in time, energy and capitol, research has shown that for most organizations this antiquated process fails to yield any clear improvements in employee performance. According to Gallup: 47% of employees receive feedback only a ... Read Full Article
The Top 5 Problems With Annual Reviews (and How to Fix Them)
It is said that a company’s people are its greatest asset. Developing and nurturing a motivated workforce is one of the single most important things any organization can do to secure and maintain competitive advantage, but by and large most organizations do a very poor job at it. So poor, in fact, that Gallup found that nearly nine out of ten employees aren't engaged at work. ... Read Full Article
Stop Managing Your Employees and Start Developing Them
During the mid-1980’s, United Technologies Corporation (UTC) ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal with the headline: “Let’s get rid of Management.” At the time more and more employees were being classified as “knowledge workers,” a term coined way back in 1959 by visionary business thinker Peter Drucker to describe people whose jobs involved more than routine manual ... Read Full Article
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
Want to Succeed With Continuous Performance Management? Focus on the Value to Employees
Every HR pro knows that the way we work is changing radically. Hierarchical, heavily structured organizations are being almost fully replaced with more flexible, adaptable and agile models based on cross-functional teams whose work is powered by conversations that take place up, down and across the organization. Getting the most out of these types of teams requires rethinking ... Read Full Article
Why HR Pros Should Focus on Building a Motivated Workforce
There’s a lot of buzz and conversation happening around the importance of employee engagement to a successful organization. But I believe that engagement is an overused, or at least misused term. Engagement, to me, isn’t a process but rather an an end-state where your employees are “all in.” Engaged employees work hard on today’s priorities, and when they believe what ... Read Full Article
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