DON’T just settle for any online Performance Review system Really, don’t do it. You’ll regret it. Besides, why would you want to create even more work for yourself and others? …
Team Planning Tips: Creating a Team Charter
Creating and agreeing on a team charter can set team projects up for success. This is an opportunity to ensure that everyone involved at the team (and senior management) level …
Nicole Bendaly: Conduct a Team Maintenance Check-Up
Conducting a Team Maintenance Check-Up When teams participate in the Team Fitness process they gain an understanding of what a high performance team looks like and know without a …
Nicole Bendaly: Get Ready for Higher Performance by Staying Focused on Team Goals
Teams that don’t keep their goal in front of them lose their way. Exceptional teams are focused – very clearly – on where they want to go. High performance teams …
10 Steps to Creating and Developing a Corporate Culture of Excellence: Part One
The details of a growing and/or maintaining your company’s high performance culture are unique to your organization. That’s because they are based on what works best for you to get …
Using Performance Reviews to Sell Your Personal Brand
Performance reviews can be a very good way to reinforce and sell your personal brand. Whether you do the process annually or more regularly, the review helps you to grow, become …
Why Should My Company Adopt A Performance Management System?
Are you looking for ways to cut the time and money spent on performance reviews? There are lots of reasons why 2014 should be your year to make the switch …
The ROI of Performance Management
Case Study Finds Companies with High Performance Cultures Can Expect 3 – 5 Times Better Financial Performance Here’s a great case study from Group50 which demonstrates the financial benefits of cascading …
The Best Performance Reviews are Fast and Straight Forward
Your performance review software should be simple and intuitive, to assist you rather than complicate things. Our software makes HR staff focus on what’s truly important – keeping performance review …
What Do Employees Really Want From A Performance Management System?
Are you constantly looking over your shoulder worried that your top performers are not engaged and may leave your organization for a competitor? Do you struggle to get alignment with …
Still Using Paper-Based Employee Evaluations? Its Time to Get into the Cloud
Re-inventing the Employee Review Process Performance reviews have been getting a bad rap recently as we at Sprigg know only too well. Why? We believe that a large part of …
Making Performance Reviews More Measurable
Data-driven employee analytics Let’s face it, historically performance review stimulated notions of a series of opinion-oriented questions where workers are rated in ways often open to criticisms of subjectivity and …
Talent Management: A Necessity, Not a Choice?
Here’s a great blog from the Post Tribune which re-emphasizes the importance of talent management in modern organizations. Many, when hearing “talent management,” may think of human resources or HR. …
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS.. ARE YOU STILL USING PAPER, OR WORSE, NOTHING AT ALL?
Why not give your HR department the gift of easy, powerful and cost-effective performance management software? With the Sprigg performance management software HR departments, managers and employees can easily: * …
360 Degree Feedback Tips
Sprigg offers a powerful 360 degree feedback feature. It provides employees with performance feedback and a deeper analysis from supervisors, co-workers, peers, customers, and reporting staff. Here’s a super set …
Marrying Coaching with 360 Degree Reviews
Here’s a great piece from Allen Moore, Global Director of Executive Coaching for recruiting company Korn/Ferry. The article, published in talentmgt.com, discusses ways to bring processes and lessons of 36o …
Lowest US Unemployment Rate Since October 2008 Creates Opportunity to Grow with Better HR Tools
It was revealed today that the US unemployment rate has fallen to a to a five-year low of 6.7%. The drop in unemployment reinforces the importance of ensuring that the …
Top five scariest jobs
We all have something we are scared of, heights, bugs, clowns or even small spaces, but thankfully we don’t have to wake up every day and go to work where …
Powerful Team Assessment Tool Gets Results – Performance Plus Q&A with Nicole Bendaly
We sat down with Kinect President Nicole Bendaly to ask her a few questions about Performance Plus. Q: What does Performance Plus do and how? With Performance Plus teams can take a quick, but thorough, check of their …
Achieving Employee Development – How Technology Can Help
by Jilaine Parkes Last week we looked at Harry – a recent hire who is struggling to collaborate, listen and communicate effectively, despite his hard work and enthusiasm. Technology, such …