performance conversations

Can you say that Continuous Performance Management is working?

If you’ve made the shift to on-going, continuous performance management, is it working? Are you able to tell your senior management team that the new approach is making objectives more meaningful to and better understood by your employees? Continuous Performance Management is not about an annual tick-box exercise or the allocation of a single rating …

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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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Get stronger engagement with Performance Objectives

You’d be right in thinking that by putting in place an online Performance Management system, managers and team members have a place to store, record and update performance objectives – and document their progress against these objectives. But doesn’t this simply make it an expensive way to store all this?  Is it then only used …

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What can we learn from Neuroscience to improve Performance Management?

By Debbie Hance, Head of Business Psychology, Head Light I attended a really interesting lecture about ‘navigating neuroscience’ by Dr Vaughan Bell of UCL. And it got me thinking: how could we use some of the learnings from neuroscience to improve performance management? One of the particularly entertaining trends Dr Vaughan Bell presented was ‘neuroessentialism’.  …

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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 …

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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 …

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