performance review

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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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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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 …

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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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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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