Top tips for leading remote working teams
1st April 2020
It's never been more important that leaders are equipped to lead remote working teams effectively and here we share expert advice and practical tips....
Driving high performance Tag
How to create high-peforming teams through collective focus
30th September 2019
This article explores how a collective focus on employee development can help create high-performing teams....
How to set better employee performance objectives
11th July 2019
Creating poor quality employee performance objectives and setting them up badly will lead to misdirected efforts, weak accountability and, at best, slows the forward momentum of your business. Conversely, when people work to good objectives, they’re more likely to achieve excellent results. There’s an opportunity here for HR managers to support the writing and acceptance of good objectives. This is the starting point for achieving a high performance culture. So, how do you do this? 1. Help people to take accountability Individuals are far...
5 ways to maximise use of 360 feedback among employees
2nd July 2019
You’ve done the hard work – you scoured the marketplace for a 360 feedback provider, you chose a platform, put together a questionnaire and launched it to your stakeholders… But it’s what happens next – or rather what perhaps doesn’t – that could prove to be your biggest challenge; participation. Fear not though, there’s lots that you (the organisation) can do to embed or reinvigorate a 360 process or tool to maximise uptake and ensure great value for all parties on...
Why info-action balance is key to driving people performance
12th June 2019
See how you can drive improved people performance by supporting managers and enabling a balance of the right information that will lead to the right action....
How should you replace performance appraisals? Case studies & checklists
26th February 2018
Here we explore case study examples from Adobe and Facebook and look at the latest best practice on running performance reviews that work....
Replacing performance ratings… How Amazon, Deloitte and Google do it
19th June 2017
Performance ratings and performance appraisals remain a source of frustration. To provide some inspiration, we look here at case studies from six big companies who’ve moved away from ratings....
Drive high performance with balanced scorecards like Apple & Microsoft use
10th August 2016
In this this blog we explore how using balanced scorecards helps companies such as Apple and Microsoft to drive high-performance among employees....
Could 360 degree appraisal improve performance reviews?
15th February 2016
We look at whether 360 degree appraisal could help to inform fairer and more effective performance reviews....
Netflix and Accenture have reappraised performance appraisals; have you?
8th December 2015
We explore why companies like Netflix have moved away from traditional performance appraisals and look at some of the new approaches being used....