Performance Management
Browse our latest Performance Management blogs, guides and insights.
Performance Management for Hybrid and Deskless Teams
Struggling to manage hybrid and deskless teams? StaffCircle simplifies performance, engagement, and feedback to boost productivity. Book your free demo today!
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The Continuous Performance Management Cycle: 2026 Guide
Learn the continuous performance management cycle, improve employee engagement, and automate reviews with StaffCircle. Book a demo today!
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10 Ways Performance Platforms Power Continuous Feedback
Boost results with StaffCircle Employee Performance Platforms. Improve continuous feedback, track performance, and engage your team. Book a demo.
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Succession Planning Without the 9-Box Grid (2026 Guide)
Still using the 9-box grid? Spot talent bias before it drains your bench. Switch to continuous Success Circles™ with StaffCircle—book your demo!
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Best Performance Management Software for Hybrid Teams (2026)
Find the best performance management software for hybrid teams. Compare top platforms, key features, and book a free StaffCircle demo today.
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Choosing Performance Management Software for Hybrid Teams: 2026 Buyer’s Guide
Find the best performance management software for hybrid teams in 2026. Compare features, improve performance, and book a free StaffCircle demo.
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2026 Performance Management Trends HR Leaders Need to Know
This blog explores the top trends in 2026 HR Leaders need to know and how to implement them for a prosperous new year.
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What is Performance Management: A Complete Guide to Managing Performance Effectively
With our guide, understand what the performance management process is. Learn how it helps HR processes understand the performance of each employee.
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Succession and Performance Management: Making the Connection Meaningful
Performance management and succession planning go hand in hand when it comes to finding the right fit for management positions. Take a look at how it
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People Analytics: Skills, Software & Strategic Insights
Are you using employee data to provide analytical results? Take a look at how people analytics software offers insights to align business strategy and
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Workplace Burnout: Signs, Causes, and How HR Can Prevent It
Workplace burnout is a common issue among the global workforce. Learn how the signs present themselves and how to combat them for a healthy workplace.
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How to Identify and Develop High Potential Employees
Retain your best workers and build a productive workplace with high potential employees. Use an employee performance system to know who your best work
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The startling cost of paper-based performance management
StaffCircle’s paperless performance management platform will save 100 million sheets of paper in 2024 by automating the performance management process
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How HR Can Demonstrate Performance Gains in Five Steps
Demonstrating tangible performance gains is crucial for validating the effectiveness of HR strategies and policies.
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The Three Critical Ingredients for Improving Employee Performance
It’s essential to go beyond mere target setting to unlock their full potential. It involves a trinity of strategies: developing a robust career plan,
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How To Create A Performance Development Plan For a Financial Services Business In Five Steps
A well-structured Performance Development Plan (PDP) is essential for fostering employee growth and driving business success.
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Reduce the Time It Takes to Run and Report on Employee Appraisals by 93.75%
With the advent of innovative tools like StaffCircle, businesses can now experience a monumental shift in how they conduct and report on employee appr
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Increasing Profit Per Employee Through Employee Performance Gains
Improving profit per employee isn't just about cost-cutting; it's about optimising performance at every level of the organisation.
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A 12-Point Plan For Financial Services HR Leaders To Achieve Peak Employee Performance in 2024
The financial services industry is rapidly transforming, and with it, the need for a highly efficient, goal-oriented workforce has never been more cri
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The Secret To Finding (and Keeping) Financial Services Talent in 2024
In the rapidly evolving landscape of financial services, mastering the art of finding and retaining top talent has become increasingly crucial.
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Balancing talent attraction, development, and retention
At CIPD ACE in Manchester, HR Leaders told us of their need to balance talent attraction, retention, and development.
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Appraisals in 2025: Annual Reviews Are Dead
Appraisals shouldn't be this time consuming, right? There's a better way. Discover the benefits of continuous appraisals with StaffCircle.
Read more →Appraisals in 2025: Annual Reviews Are Dead
Appraisals shouldn't be this time consuming, right? There's a better way. Discover the benefits of continuous appraisals with StaffCircle.
Read more →Performance Appraisal in 2025: From Annual to Continuous 360
Performance appraisal is evolving. Replace annual reviews with continuous, 360 employee appraisal systems and real-time insight from StaffCircle
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What makes a high performing team? The 5 most important characteristics of high-performing teams
What makes a high performing team? Read on to find out how you can create the environment and mindset where high-performance teams are able to flouris
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Positive things to say in a performance review: A Guide To Boosting Morale And Enhancing Productivity
Finding positive things to say in a performance review is an essential aspect of the performance management process.
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What is a PDR? Performance Development Review Explained
What is a PDR? Performance development reviews (PDRs) are an essential part of the performance management cycle.
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How to be a good manager – everything you need to know
Discover how a good manager fosters career development, encourages time management and helps employees deal with their personal lives.
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10 People management skills every manager needs
Understanding the important people management skills good managers need to boost employee engagement and career development.
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Unconscious Bias In The Workplace: What Is It And How Can We Avoid It?
Unconscious bias in the workplace is a fact of everyday life, but when left unchecked it can have serious negative impacts on business outcomes.
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The Most Important Characteristics Of High Performing Teams
This article explores the most important characteristics of high performing teams, from setting up a framework for clear communication to unifying ind
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6 Top Tips for Supporting Employee Career Progression
Discover how to structure an employee career progression plan that drives employee training and development to deliver the best outcomes for your busi
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Tips for Writing a Strong Self Evaluation — Plus Examples to Make Yours Shine
Learn how to prepare for your next performance review and plan your professional development with a strong self evaluation.
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Self Appraisal Examples and How to Improve Your Existing Process
In this guide, we’ll cover self appraisal examples and how you can use them for the best results.
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A Complete Guide to Effective One to Ones, the most underrated productivity tool
How to make the most of one to ones with direct reports to assess job satisfaction and improve career development.
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What is a high performance culture and how to create one?
Understanding how high performing cultures work by creating the best physical or virtual environment for optimal employee engagement and performance.
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Skills audit – Why You Should Be Conducting Them
Use a skills audit to highlight existing skills and discover skills required to help meet your company’s training needs.
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Addressing the 3 Ps of Effective Employee Performance Management
Improve how your human resources team handles the recruitment process and performance reviews with the 3 Ps of effective performance management.
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Personal Work Objectives to Help You Succeed in Your Career
In this guide, we’ll cover the strategies you can use to successfully achieve your personal work objectives.
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Lying on your CV: Fake it ‘Til you Make it
We polled 1,500 workers to find out how truthful they are when applying for a new job. The results might surprise you.
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How do I get the most out of career development conversations?
Discover how to improve professional growth with career development questions to help employees follow their career path.
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Setting Team Goals: Tips For Success
Understand the process for setting team goals as well as their benefits with actionable examples you can implement in your company.
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What is an Appraisal: A Guide to Appraisals at Work
Meta description: Understand why appraisals are important, how to set one up, and avoid the common limitations with this guide to appraisals at work.
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Goal Setting: A Scientific Guide to Setting and Achieving Goals
From setting SMART goals to choosing the best ways to measure progress, this guide covers everything you need to know about goal setting.
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Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) – A Complete Guide
How to use performance improvement plans (PIPs) to motivate employees to overcome their shortcomings and develop in their role and career
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Training Evaluations Model: The Complete Guide
This guide to training evaluation models breaks down the various approaches you can take, and how the 360-degree feedback model can deliver the best r
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Succession planning: Beginner’s guide to proven success
Learn what succession planning is, its process, and why it's essential for ensuring smooth transitions and future leadership within your organization.
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Personal Development: Why is it important?
Understand how personal development can drive productivity and engagement while giving employees personal and professional satisfaction
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5 Innovative Performance Management Approaches
In this blogpost we are investigating innovative performance management approaches that you could adopt to drive productivity and engagement.
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Managing Performance Management: 5 Issues HR Leaders Must Fix
Discover five obstacles to managing employee performance and learn data-driven strategies, tools and software to improve staff performance management.
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How to Set Smart Objectives in 6 Simple Steps
Understanding how to set SMART objectives correctly can make the difference between success and failure. This guide breaks down the process into six s
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6 Tips for Managing Poor Performance
What can you do if some of your team isn't performing to expected standards? We have collated 6 tips for managing poor performance
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10 Steps for a Smooth Employee Performance Management System Implementation
Performance management delivers the best results when all its elements work together in harmony. Read this guide and discover the 10 key steps you ne
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Adapting your performance management process to suit post-pandemic working
The post-pandemic business landscape requires new ways of thinking about how performance is managed. Read on to discover the five key steps you can ta
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The Impact of Performance Management on Employee Motivation
In this blog post, we discuss the impact of performance management on employee motivation. Learn more here.
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How HR Leaders Must Deal With Business Disruption
Turning disruption from a negative into a positive force can take HR strategy in bold new directions and unleash innovative new strategies.
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2021 Workforce Predictions
As we move into 2021 and the uncertain picture continues, what can businesses expect in the 12 months ahead?
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Celebrating the team: keeping employees engaged during lockdowns
Innovative employee engagement strategies emphasizing recognition and celebrating employee success have become more important than ever before.
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The rise of the virtual team: a 2021 roadmap for HR leaders
Virtual teams require digital solutions in order to keep employees connected, and tools such as Microsoft Teams have stepped up to bridge the gap betw
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Performance Management Trends For 2021
Discover the key performance management trends as organisations adapt to the new normal in 2021.
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StaffCircle releases Microsoft Teams integration to drive employee engagement
StaffCircle releases Microsoft Teams integration to drive employee engagement and performance management in distributed workforces. Read more...
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How to engage staff when you’ve never met them face-to-face
The familiar induction process, built around face-to-face introductions and meetings, needs to be modified for the digital sphere especially when peop
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Using Data For Talent Attraction, Engagement & Retention
find out how businesses are transforming their processes to build teams of truly talented individuals by attracting and retaining top talent!
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How The Data You Already Have Could Make Your Business More Resilient
Effective use of data via a performance management platform can help position companies to build resilience against unforseeable events into the core
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How Pitacs Overcame Workforce Challenges With HR Admin Tools
StaffCircle's platform helped me to keep on top of everything without constantly having to chase information
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Rethinking Performance Management In The New Normal
Making the most of your performance management system is ultimately about streamliningprocesses to free up time for managers and HR leaders.
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Why Employee Empowerment Is So Important
How recognition programs and rewards can boost team spirit, demonstrate that you value great work, and empower everyone to reach for their true potent
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Best Performance Management Software 2024 Review
We've compared the top market leading HR tools and carried out a side by side review of all features. Our research shows that StaffCircle comes out on
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What Are SMART Objectives?
SMART objectives work as a consequence of dialogue throughout the business in order to make your teams' goals achievable. Are you using them?
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A Guide To Performance Management Cycles
Let's take a closer look at the performance management cycle, and how your company can make the most of its performance management tools
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10 HR Solutions For Small Businesses
These 10 HR solutions for small businesses will help your company recognize positive and negative impact of a variety of behaviours.
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How To Be The Best Line Manager
Whether you’re a brand new manager or a long-time leader, companies and their management teams worldwide have recently been put to the test, as the
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Transitioning From Lockdown To Work With An Employee Relationship Platform
As the summer of 2020 begins and the COVID-19 lockdowns begin to ease up, businesses around the world are examining the processes required to start th
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Enhance Talent And Leadership With People Management Software
With HR departments and leaders experiencing an unprecedented overhaul in the way they work during the COVID-19 crisis, a fresh, multi-dimensional
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What Makes a Good Online Appraisal Software?
Learn about digital appraisal systems with StaffCircle. Know what key factors make a good online appraisal system for employees and their performance.
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10 Essential Digital Tools For HR
HR leaders and managers are currently facing new challenges, as businesses across the globe take part in what Time magazine has referred to as
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How Talent Management Is Changing In The HR World
The COVID-19 global pandemic has caused a seismic shift in the way business owners and HR leaders perform their roles, with the usual processes for ta
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A Guide To Onboarding Remote Workers
Onboarding remote workers presents businesses with a new set of challenges not faced when onboarding in the workplace. The familiar induction process,
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7 Problems Working From Home (And How You Can Solve Them)
With companies rapidly shifting to managing remote workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new dynamic is emerging which requires a different way of
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Save Time Working From Home With Performance Management Tools
Working from home during the COVID-19 lockdown can present companies with a variety of fresh challenges, not least a potential breakdown in communicat
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A Guide To Best Practices For Working From Home
The impact of Covid-19 on the global workforce has been both unanticipated and unprecedented. As governments implement lockdown measures and limit on-
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Which Comes First, Culture Or Performance?
In the modern workplace, corporate culture and performance are deeply intertwined. But which comes first? The relationship between culture, performanc
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Kaizen Continuous Improvement – Science Supported Decisions
Japanese companies are internationally renowned for their high levels of innovation and productivity. But what systems have they put in place which al
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Implementing Continuous Feedback in a Modern Workforce
Implementing continuous feedback as part of your performance management systems can seem like a daunting task. But in a fast-paced modern workforce wi
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Annual Performance Reviews VS Ongoing Feedback
Annual performance reviews are still commonly used in many businesses. Yet numerous studies have shown that ongoing feedback performance management ca
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7 Hurdles To Giving Reliable Feedback
Are you struggling to make the most of your company feedback systems? While giving and receiving feedback sounds simple in theory, in practice, HR
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How Effective Feedback Builds Trust For Optimal Engagement And Performance
The most significant relationships in our lives are built upon trust, and the relationship between managers and employees or between co-workers is no
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5 Feedback Techniques To Boost Continuous Performance Improvement
Feedback can be a powerful tool for boosting performance. Get it right and teams and employees will deliver above and beyond, achieving targets and
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How To Boost Performance When Dealing With Difficult Feedback
Few managers enjoy dealing with difficult feedback, but failure to address problems employees are facing inevitably leads to poorer performance, misse
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10 Ways To Transform Feedback Into Better Performance
Feedback. It's the grease that oils the cogs of any business. But few managers know how to use it to full effect in order to boost performance. The de
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How To Cope With Winter Sickness & Reduce Absenteeism In The Workplace
As the weather turns colder and days grow shorter, many companies struggle to deal with increases in sickness absence in the workplace. Colds and flu
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4 Pros And 4 Cons When Implementing Time Off In Lieu Policies
When the requirements of your business calls for overtime, offering your employees time off in lieu (TOIL) as an alternative to overtime pay is a grea
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6 Effective Ways To Combat Winter Sickness
As the winter blues arrive, many companies struggle to deal with increases in sickness absence in the workplace. Colds and flu start to do the rounds,
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Performance Management & Goals
One of the biggest challenges facing UK businesses in 2020 is how they attract and retain the best talent in a highly competitive employment market.
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OKR Goals: Align Your Team to Meet Performance Targets
Studies show that setting company goals boost performance by motivating employees to boost their work efforts and set priorities. We’ve all heard of S
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4 Essential Books To Help Set Your Performance Management Objectives
Navigating the various tools, measurements and best practices in order to gear up your performance management to achieve your company objectives can s
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7 Effective Ways To Score Your Performance Objectives
A core element of effective performance management comes with establishing and tracking your company's objectives. Combining a clear sense of the
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Pairing SMART and Stretch Goals for Optimal Performance
Setting ambitious long term goals is one of the keys to the success of any company. But failing to structure a clear path to accomplishing these goals
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How to Track Goals for Effective Performance Management
Setting objectives and key results is a great way to establish your ambitious goals and break them down into their manageable – and measurable –
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Maximising the Four Superpowers of Objectives and Key Results
Since their birth in the late 1990s, Objectives and Key Results offer businesses a revolutionary way to establish and achieve ambitious goals, helping
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7 Tips For Setting Effective Stretch Goals
Stretch goals can be a great way of pushing your company to excel while driving employees to think in innovative ways. But simply setting ambitious go
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Aligning And Connecting Your Teams To Meet Your Goals
Some of the major obstacles for companies hitting their big targets come from a lack of transparency and alignment between employees and teams. But as
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Practical uses for Artificial Intelligence in the UK workplace
AI provides the potential to advance internal workforce optimisation for many organisations. Used as part of a process or workflow, AI can be
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What Is Employee Performance Management?
The effectiveness of performance management system can make the difference between a company of top-performing employees delivering goals, and a faili
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Is Your Appraisal Process Stuck in the Stone Age?
If you were to ask your employees today about the quality of your company’s appraisal process, how many do you think would say they’re satisfied? How
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The Return on Investment Case for Implementing Digital Performance Management
Asking your managers to get the most from their teams should be straightforward, right? All they have to do is provide the right direction, set clear
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Ask Me Anything – Mastering the Art of Employee Engagement Surveys
Winning at employee engagement takes a holistic approach that involves many consistent and proactive initiatives on the part of the organisation seeki
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How To Move From Annual To Quarterly Appraisals (And Why You Should Do It)
If you want your business to be competitive and constantly evolving, annual performance appraisals may no longer be up to the task. Companies seeking
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How to Get Real Value From Your One2One Performance Reviews
They're commonly referred to as 1:1s, one2ones or face-to-face reviews. Or, likely, a wide variety of slang terms that employees would prefer that the
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Amp Up Your Diversity and Inclusion Strategy Using Technology
The workforce is changing at a fever pitch these days. In fact, it sometimes seems that borders no longer exist and the globe is shrinking right befor
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Why Performance Management Should Be Your Biggest Priority
Small businesses or startups can keep a close eye on every one of their employees and ensure they’re getting the most out of each of them. For bigger
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UK employee engagement awards – which to enter and how to win
Taken all our advice and now think your business is the bee's knees when it comes to employee engagement? Then prove it by entering one of the prestig
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5 Dos and 5 Don’ts When Creating Your Company Culture
Navigating the best practices when creating your company culture can be a minefield of pitfalls and errors. It can make the difference between a
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What Questions to Ask During a Performance Check-In
Relying solely on annual appraisals has long been a thing of the past. The most effective performance management systems ensure that regular appraisal
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Manager Must-Haves: 4 Tips For Mastering Performance Reviews and The Feedback Loop
The ever-changing landscape of today's industry has forced managers to rethink how they handle performance reviews. Even those who had their performan
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24 Must-Read Employee Engagement Statistics
Employee Engagement: Is this another passing fad amongst HR professionals or are there real benefits from having a highly engaged workforce? We've
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How To Deal With Underperforming Employees
Dealing with underperforming employees – and potentially facing the unpleasant task of firing them – is something few managers enjoy doing. It can
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Skyrocket Employee Performance With Regular 1:1 Performance Reviews
Employee performance is the secret sauce to business success in any industry. Getting the highest level of productivity, however, can be the most elus
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Performance Appraisals: A Guide To Understanding Scoring Formats
Scoring formats can provide the backbone of an effective performance management system, aiding managers and business owners in their evaluations of
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Accelerating the Sales Department Performance by visualising Key Objectives
Salespeople tend to be highly competitive and driven individuals. Set them a target and apply a commission-based incentive and they’ll apply 100% of t
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The Hidden Impact of Low Employee Engagement on the UK Healthcare Industry
Few professions in the UK are as universally appreciated as those in the healthcare industry. Doctors, nurses and all the supporting cast of porters,
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6 Common Company Core Values Misconceptions To Avoid
Misconceptions and skewed preconceived perceptions swirl around the concept of company core values. In fact, companies that have already outlined thei
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Employee Engagement Survey – Why You Need One And How To Do It Well
It’s not the easiest task to ensure good employee engagement across a large workforce spanning many different locations and working environments. Your
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Nine Practical Ways To Boost Employee Engagement Among Non-Desk-Based Workers
Poor employee engagement is costly – not just in terms of high staff turnover and recruitment fees, but also because of the impact it has on a
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What are Corporate Core Values?
Corporate core values are the important characteristics of a business that are demonstrated constantly through every interaction the company’s employe
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Five Organisations Who Celebrate Employees Living Core Values on Twitter
Recognising employee successes and celebrating those individuals who live and breathe the company values will positively shape your organisation's
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4 Dos and 4 Don’ts When Setting Performance Management Goals
One of the key foundations of good performance management is setting clear goals, clarifying the expectations a company has of its employees while
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The Business Case for Effective Employee Engagement
The UK faces an employee engagement deficit. At both a macro and a micro level, this matters: Britain is 15% less productive per employee than the
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How To Manage Performance The Google Way
When you think of a company the size of Google, it's easy to assume that their performance management systems are complex affairs designed to deal wit
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Five Podcast Episodes for Cracking Your Company Culture
Did you know there are over 750,000 podcasts and more than 30 million episodes of podcasts online? Finding great content amongst all the noise (pun
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10 Tips for Delivering Effective Employee Feedback
Giving effective feedback should be a core component of any company's culture. Done right, feedback can transform an underperforming employee into an
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Your Guide To Performance Appraisal Best Practices
Ah, the dreaded performance appraisal is looming. That uncomfortable hour every month, quarter and year-end when you and your employees sit face-to-fa
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How Google Builds Creative Freedom Into Their Company Culture
If any company has a track record for building a culture where the most talented and creative employees are given the means to collaborate and innovat
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Five Worrying Employee Engagement Statistics for Manufacturers (and what to do about them!)
Employee engagement is a metric that every company in the UK should be monitoring. That is especially true in industries facing significant skills
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Why your business desperately needs OKRs and digitalisation
HR and Ops are no strangers to acronyms but in our opinion, some are far more important than others for achieving business success. One such acronym t
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8 Clear Reasons to Review Your Annual Appraisal Process
The annual appraisal is a relic of 1960's management techniques that have clung to relevance for far too long. They're inefficient, ineffective, and
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Where to Begin With Creating Company Core Values
Company core values have been demonstrated to make a real difference. Core values contribute to positive company culture, increase productivity and
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What’s better than perks? A structured employee rewards plan, that’s what.
The global job market is tighter and more competitive than it’s been in decades. The fight for talent in certain key areas of business such as technol
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Why you must help your workforce keep their New Year’s resolutions
Your employees have come back to work with some targets to meet and some of them will help your business. Here’s how to make sure they achieve them.
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The Benefits of Moving From Paper Appraisals to a Digital System
The business world appears to have a very odd relationship with performance appraisals. According to Willis Towers Watson research, less than half (45
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Reminder: Reinforcing Company Core Values Is Key
Creating company core values is no easy feat. It takes hours, days, months or even (for the real overachievers out there) years to develop the perfect
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Employee Engagement is going high tech, it’s official
GP Bullhound has released its predictions for 2019 and employee engagement is all the rage. Here’s how to get on board now.
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7 Performance Management Problems You Need To Avoid
Effective performance management can motivate better performance from employees, combining interconnected tools and processes in a fluid and adaptable
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How to ensure your business has a brilliant January with your own branded workforce app
After time off work celebrating the festive period, 2nd January can be tough. Here’s how to get your staff back at their best on the first working day
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Ditch Excel for a Performance Appraisal Tool That Works
If you are still using your Microsoft Office Suite as the main tool to help you administer and track performance appraisals with your employees, you a
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