performance management

Build your case for on-line performance management

Our recent article in HR.com’s Talent Management Essentials, outlines the four main benefits of on-line performance management that we observe through our work with clients – and from our research with those with whom we come in contact. Organisations that move to on-line performance management witness: Better goal alignment and more objectives achieved. 80% claim …

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Appraisals undervalued? Then calculate their return on investment

Return on Investment is a widely used term – often needed in the presentation of the business case or in a post-implementation review. In a recent article on Personnel Today, Head Light’s Managing Director, Ian Lee-Emery explores how organisations can demonstrate the financial return on investment in effective performance management. Intuitively, we  know that performance management can benefit …

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10 ways to make performance reviews more effective

A solid, robust and effective performance review makes the difference between a tickbox exercise and a way of working which really adds value to the business.  Our top 10 tips follow. Avoid the ‘once-a-year’ review. Whilst regular 1-to-1 meetings may happen, weekly or monthly, aim to have the more formal, meetings bi-annually, or quarterly. Make sure …

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3 facts, 1 KPI and 1 Truth – building the ROI on performance management

Introducing talent management software for performance management clearly offers efficiencies – but time savings are not as great as one may expect. The Head Light survey in 2013 highlighted that the real benefits come from a better use of that time, more focused conversations, better goal alignment, more objectives met and so on. We set …

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Head Light launches enhanced engagement tool and offers on-stand ROI calculations at leading L&D event

Talent management software specialist Head Light will launch a ground-breaking engagement survey and analytics tool – and demonstrate how HR teams can calculate and improve their return on investment from performance management – on stand 446 at the CIPD Learning and Development Show (30 April-1 May, Olympia). Called Talent En-GaugeÂź, the company’s enhanced engagement survey …

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5 steps to improve performance management within your organisation

Effective performance management has its challenges: conflicting needs of the stakeholders in the process; little connection between performance review meetings and everyday working life; ambiguous or poorly defined objectives; inability to track or monitor progress of objectives.   Some of these can be met with defined processes and strong internal communications. Others require the support …

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Calculating the impact and return of Performance Management on your Business

Have you considered what the impact on your business could be if you could improve your performance management process? Performance reviews can be seen by managers and employees alike as ‘one-off’, form-filling exercises with little business or day-to-day impact. We’ve been working with some of our customers to refine our new Performance Management ROI Calculator …

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