The 5 fundamentals when looking to move to continuous Performance Management

With debate around how performance review may be changing and with some organisations looking to move away from performance ratings to more continuous performance management, we offer in this blog post the 5 areas we think are fundamental when you start to consider making any changes to your performance management process. #1 – Get involvement from everyone when mapping out the new approach This is about consulting with employees and including them in your planning…

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Drive performance conversations not performance ratings

We’ve blogged before about the importance of performance conversations that managers have with their team members as part of performance review and appraisal – and we’ve heard recently about the shifts in how organisations view performance ratings.  We’ve commented on this in one of our We think… articles. Whether performance ratings are used or not, we see that there is a strong desire to up-skill managers to have better quality development…

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Getting started with Performance Management

Getting started with performance management system can seem to be a daunting task. But it needn’t be if you have the right tools to support you. Through our work with clients, we have explored a range of performance management cycles and processes and know that simple email reminders at key stages of the review process, just aren’t enough. As a performance cycle is worked through over time, employees and managers are…

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Performance Management – the Next Generation

Is there a new, more grown up attitude to performance management emerging? Netflix abandoned formal reviews some time ago, reportedly seeing them as being “too ritualistic and too infrequent”. In place of this, managers were encouraged to have frequent and honest conversations and to make better use of the data available through improved business analytics to provide a more accurate picture of how people were doing. It also scrapped Performance…

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Talent Consumerisation – what does it mean for Performance Management?

In a previous blog we have looked at the rise of Talent Consumerisation. But what does this mean for some of the most important talent management activities and processes? In this first blog of a series, we look at the impact on Performance Management – and the shift to more continuous performance management. We believe that the Consumerisation of Talent brings the quality of the manager much more to the forefront. Talent Consumerisation indicates……

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