Performance management, reviews, and evaluations often get a bad wrap. Only 55% of employees feel that performance appraisals are effective. But, it doesn’t have to be just filling out a paper and talking awkwardly with employees you only see a[…]
Building Core Values into Your Performance Management Process
By Michael Heller Performance Management May 22, 2017
3 Ways to Give Feedback to Gen X
By Michael Heller Performance Feedback Apr 03, 2017
If you’re fascinated by performance feedback and building a performance culture within your company, you likely know exactly how much feedback your Millennial employees need. But while Millennials are soon to be the largest generation in the workforce, there are[…]
15 Ways to Improve Performance Evaluations
By Michael Heller Performance Reviews Mar 27, 2017
In the modern workplace, performance reviews and employee evaluations are a necessary evil. As a manager, you probably don’t like giving them and it’s no surprise that only 55% of respondents in a recent study stated that these performance processes[…]
Use Ongoing Feedback to Complement Total Performance Management
By Michael Heller Performance Feedback Jan 23, 2017
We all know that a performance management system is the key to engaged employees. Because it’s so vital to company productivity, it’s likely you already have a performance management system in place, and you might think the transition to microfeedback[…]
Business Slow? Invest in Employee Engagement
By Michael Heller Employee Engagement Nov 14, 2016
Let’s get the simple explanation out of the way – engaged employees means better productivity. We’re talking big time increases. A study by Gallup found companies with an average of 9.3 engaged employees for every actively disengaged employee, experienced 147%[…]
This post was brought to us by Red Branch Media CEO, Maren Hogan. Building a performance feedback culture with social? How on earth can you do that? Performance reviews take up half your time. You have a millennial staff for[…]
The Silence of the Managers
By Michael Heller Employee Engagement Oct 24, 2016
Only one thing truly disturbs the minds of employees, and that is when their managers are silent – meaning no employee feedback or guidance. Just thinking about it makes our skin crawl!
5 Payoffs of Effective Performance Coaching
By Michael Heller Performance Feedback Oct 18, 2016
Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It’s helping them to learn rather than teaching them. – Author, Tim Gallwey Performance coaching levels the playing field. The concept is defined as an ongoing process which helps[…]
Why Real-time Feedback Isn’t Working for Your Team
By Michael Heller Microfeedback Sep 14, 2016
Whether we like to admit it or not, feedback has been a critical part of business management for as long as people have worked. Considering it’s how we learned the basics of living, real-time feedback is in our very nature[…]
5 Pieces of Key Advice on Feedback Goals
By Michael Heller Performance Feedback Jul 26, 2016
What is the point of your feedback? Does it have direction and purpose? Take a look at this series of articles to discover the ins and outs of five important feedback goals you should implement to develop and motivate your[…]