Author name: Lois Dabrowski

An offer – 90 day online continuous performance management trial

We’ve seen that Continuous Performance Management encourages better, on-going performance conversations, moves us away from the annual, tickbox, compliance exercise and fires up employees keen to progress and deliver their goals and objectives. But we’ve also seen that getting up and running can be the biggest challenge. It requires buy-in across the business, developing and …

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Head Light offers free 90-day trial of continuous performance management

Head Light, the talent management software specialist, is offering HR teams the chance to pilot an ‘employee-centric’ approach to continuous performance management free for 90 days. The company will provide its Talent Performance® software – which facilitates focused, goal-oriented conversations between managers and employees – at no cost, to any organisation that wants to test …

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Questions to ask potential Talent Management software suppliers

If you’re going to the CIPD L&D Show in London next week – and looking to talk to Talent Management software suppliers – do you know what questions to ask? We find that the most successful implementations of our talent management software occur when the client is thinking about the longer term and the broader picture from …

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nuts and bolts of competencies

Making competencies work – the nuts and bolts of your organisation

Embedding a competency framework across all your assessment processes is another critical step to making your framework come alive. It is surprising how often we find that different processes (e.g., leadership development programmes, 360 degree questionnaires and executive search briefs) adopt different criteria and use language that is not consistent with the core behavioural expectations …

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Police performance management

PDR process within the Police – do your systems comply?

If you’re based within a police force, you’ll know that the National College of Policing is mandating that an annual performance review or PDR is to take place.   For this, you’ll need a robust, reliable performance management software tool which has already shown to meet the demands of flexible PDR dates, fit with the ways in which …

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Time to revisit your competency framework?

Just when you thought that competency frameworks were all but dead,  we’re seeing a resurgence in the market. Many invested in competency frameworks during the 90s heyday – and have retained a firm belief in the unrealised potential of a common language for performance and behaviour – and now we’re witnessing a number of organisations ‘refreshing’ their frameworks and committing renewed energy to …

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The move towards continuous performance management

Leading organisations are successfully replacing outdated appraisals with ‘continuous performance management’ – and we’ve been supporting them every step of the way from initiating change, creating assessments, reviewing processes, providing software and coaching managers. But what are the key areas you need to consider if you are looking to make the shift from a one-off …

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