Editor’s top 5: Performance management
At the most basic level, performance management/reviews are like any other business tool – necessary to gauge how your company is performing. The difference is, however, that dealing with people and all their complexities is not quite the same as crunching numbers in a spreadsheet.
Below are five blog posts containing some very relevant and intuitive information on how to manage not only annual reviews, but how to integrate and encourage performance and commitment every day.
Performance management can’t be seen as a mere tool for business, but a tool for enabling your staff to reach their full potential.
Top 4 New Year’s resolutions to breathe life into performance appraisal systems
By admin on Bullseye Evaluation
Do you truly believe in your performance review system? If not, change it!
This post highlights areas that HR need to pay attention to, including challenging the traditional attitudes towards ‘performance review processes’ rather than seeing them as a valuable tool for success.
Performance management process checklist
By Susan M. Heathfield on About.com
Performance management is all about being hands-on; managers need to be proactive in encouraging, assessing and garnering feedback on employee performance all the time, not just when it comes to ‘review time’.
This blog post discusses how to do that, plus has some great information on how to structure reviews.
The ideal employee evaluation from my manager
By Pat Bell on Bullseye Evaluation
This post is a first-hand account from an employee who valued and appreciated her manager’s style, technique and overall attitude to her performance review.
How do you stack up?
Managing employee performance
By Sean Conrad on Employee Performance Solutions
This post talks about motivation – what it is and the importance of even the greatest managers needing to find new ways of motivating their staff, and the difficulties that in itself can create. Not everyone is motivated by the same thing.
(Yes, it’s a software company site and has a plug for an out-of-date webinar at the bottom, but it has some good information!)
Top 10 ways to encourage employee work balance
By Susan M. Heathfield on About.com
Employers can’t be responsible for how employees manage their work-life balance, and ultimately they shouldn’t have to be.
But, in the interests of the well-being of their staff and the fact content workers perform better, there are ways companies can encourage a healthy work-life balance in their workforce.
