performance management

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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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 …

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Don’t throw away your paper-based performance management!

Do you have a paper-based performance management system that you think is already working and that people are bought-into – and yet you’re under pressure to upgrade it and ‘move online’? You know only too well the time and cost savings to be had from moving online – as well as getting better, real-time reporting, accurate …

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Eight-point plan to turn around failing performance management

Talent management software specialist Head Light will offer practical advice on how HR teams can embed the processes and practices that enable real performance improvement, and not just ‘tick-box’ performance management, at Learning Technologies 2015 (28-29 January, Olympia 2). The company has researched and identified an eight-point action plan for HR teams, managers and employees, …

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Performance Management: fulfilling its potential

Performance Management promises much – but invariably disappoints at all levels. It can enhance individual and organisational productivity, improve working relationships, identify development needs, close skills gaps, enable career progression and enhance employee engagement – and yet, all too often, it fails to meet expectations. In our experience as talent management software specialists, there are six main reasons why performance management fails …

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Supporting line managers in Performance Management

Getting performance management embedded within your organisation is no mean feat. You need your line managers and employees to recognise and understand the benefits to them as individuals as well as those that the organisation as a whole will see. We’ve brought together our experience of supporting HR and L&D decision makers into a Guide …

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