A snippet of a boss putting the screws to an employee in the employee improvement film Painless Performance Improvement. Like it? Buy it here: www.media-partners.com Employee Performance Corporate Training Video
Among the nearly 350 small and midsize organizations that applied for our 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces award earlier this year, 96% have a strategic plan. No surprise there, right? (In fact, I find it more surprising that in this tough economy, 4% are getting by without one.) However, when I looked at the vast majority [...]
Well before the financial crisis of 2008, companies in manufacturing and many other industries embraced "lean" as a way to conserve cash and resources not needed to create value for the end customer. On our website we’ve explored these practices, specifically the team building and other human capital strategies that have fueled their success. It’s [...]
The following is a guest post by Sean Conrad. Sean is a Senior Product Analyst at Halogen Software, one of the leading providers of performance appraisal software. Most of us are familiar with Gallup’s employee engagement research and the twelve statements they use to measure it. When I look at the list, it strikes me [...]
Will this week go down as a low point for performance reviews? Since The New York Times asked on one of its blogs on Monday if it’s "Time to Review Workplace Reviews," workplace researchers and business leaders alike have jumped on the bandwagon of questioning their effectiveness, and even their place among other, common employee [...]
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