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The Benefits of Quarterly Reviews: More check-ins, fewer headaches
The annual performance review—a high stakes, once-a-year evaluation that ignites anxiety in even the highest performing employees. However, it too often remains a check box for employers struggling to juggle work environments increasingly squeezed for time. So, why conduct them FOUR times a year instead of just once? Benefit No. 1: Relationship Building Engaging with…
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Separating Pay Increases From Performance Reviews: Why It Matters
The annual performance review dangles the ever-enticing carrot of more money for a job well done. However, separating pay raises from employee reviews can be a more effective strategy to navigate this anxiety-inducing yearly process. Compensation often creates unnecessary distraction during reviews. It’s difficult for employees to stay present and focus on managerial feedback when…
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Executive’s Guide to Unemployment Insurance Claims Process
In 2022, American workers received 24.26 billion dollars in unemployment insurance benefits. Currently, 2023 unemployment benefit payments are on pace to exceed those paid out in 2022. This huge number impacts nearly all American businesses. Business owners and stakeholders need to understand the unemployment insurance claims process, how it is calculated, and ways to control…
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9 Tips to Manage Negative Employees
A Guide to Turning Attitudes Around Every workplace has its share of negative employees. You know who we’re talking about. The employee who brings a cloud of pessimism and complaints wherever they go. Their negativity grates on other employees’ nerves and lowers morale. While managing negative employees can be a challenging task, it is essential…
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Top 10 Reasons to Partner with a PEO
A Professional Employer Organization, or PEO, provides small and mid-sized business with payroll, benefits, and HR services for improved productivity and profitability. It also frees up valuable time to focus on mission-critical and profitable activities, so busy business executives can grow their business. There are numerous benefits to partner with a PEO. GET STARTED TODAY! National…
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5 Essential Elements of Effective Performance Management
Recent surveys have found less than 50% of employees feel their performance evaluations are fair or transparent. Old-school approaches to performance management, such as annual performance reviews, are often criticized for their lack of effectiveness in motivating employees. These methods can be demotivating. They often focus on the past and make employees feel unrecognized or undervalued.…
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Enhance Company Performance With Your VOE (Voice of Employees)
Listening is an essential skill in the workplace, especially when you want to enhance company performance. More important than many companies realize. In fact, according to the software company, Sideways6, over 34% of employees worldwide believe that their employers don’t listen to their ideas. A Gallup study shows 87% of employees feel disengaged from their…
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How Learning Management Software Impacts Business
Training and career development are essential strategies for attracting, engaging, and retaining talent. In fact, according to Lorman, retention rates rise 30-50% for companies with strong learning cultures, and 70% of employees would likely leave their current job to work for an organization that invests in employee development and learning. Additionally, continual learning benefits your organization…
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7 Ways to Build Work Team Trust
Trust is the confidence that others around you will do what they say, when they say they will, to the best of their ability. Trust is crucial in all areas of life, but work team trust is essential to a thriving team environment. It builds strong and effective teams. Work team trust also brings many other…
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Five tell-tale signs you are not the badass boss you think you are
If you’ve earned the opportunity to lead or manage a team of people, it’s probably because someone within your organization spotted leadership potential in you. However, fulfilling that potential can be a challenge! Every leader needs to take the time to consider if they are doing everything possible to be a badass boss. Different roles…
Category: Performance
