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3 Requirements for Good Performance Management
Recognize This! – Forced ranking is a proven failure. So are traditional approaches to employee incentives. Yesterday, I jumped on the bandwagon of everyone commenting on the evisceration of...
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Learn Intuit's Secret to Recognition Success: Webinar August 2, 1:00pm (EDT)
Recognize This! – Learning from others’ success makes our own path to success that much straighter. Intuit has been a trusted partner of ours for, oh, many years now. I’ve had the opportunity to share...
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4 Tips to Ensure Your Company Survives the Transition to a New Senior Leader
Recognize This! – Build a strong culture based on core values that mean something to individual employees. We’ve all read the stories of the new CEO stepping into a strong company culture. The good...
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WSJ: Peer Performance Reviews Take Off
Recognize This! – The manager-driven, once-a-year employee performance review is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Good riddance. The groundswell against the traditional annual performance review...
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Should We “Out” the Bad Workers, Too?
Recognize This! – We publicly praise the stars. Should we publicly highlight the truly poor performers as well? Regular readers know I’m a very strong proponent of frequent and public (when appropriate...
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Going beyond the 360 Review with True Crowdsourced Feedback
Recognize This! – 360° reviews are an improvement on traditional annual employee appraisals, but don’t go far enough. Regular readers will know that I am not a fan of the traditional annual performance...
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UK Workforce Mood Tracker * Recognition Is Strong Motivator
Recognize This! – Employees everywhere need and want recognition for work well done. For a couple of years now, Globoforce (my company) has been running semi-annual Workforce Mood Tracker™ surveys,...
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Fear vs. Appreciation * What’s the Better Productivity Approach?
Recognize This! – Appreciation is a more effective productivity booster than fear. Are you working harder because you’re scared for your job? Or could you potentially be even more productivity if...
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Can You “Fix” a Bad Boss?
Recognize This! – Some managers need more development, training and tools to help them become the “good” boss their employees need. If you’re interested in management, improving your management skills...
View ArticleThe Big Data Revolution in Employee Recognition & Reward
Recognize This! – Your single greatest “expense” is your employees. Big Data can help you get the most out of that investment. Big data is coming into its own. The Harvard Business Review blog...
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Loyalty Is Not Dead. It’s Just Changed Hands.
Recognize This! – People are loyal to other people, not corporations. How often have you heard the truism, “People don’t leave companies, they leave bosses”? It is a true statement. But let’s look at...
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Getting People Processes Right Drives the Bottom Line
Recognize This! – Companies that do people processes better also have better financial returns. I’ve posted fairly often on research showing the connection between employee engagement or employee...
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Rules of Engagement: Follow the Map Employees Set for Their Own Engagement
Recognize This! – Direction, training, and feedback are critical to increased engagement. Thanks to a great article in HRZone.co.uk by Leslie Allen, I came across these interesting results of a recent...
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Rules of Engagement: Feedback – From Everywhere and Everyone
Recognize This! – “Feedback” is not the same as “annual performance review.” What do you need most in your work? Sure, the cynics will say “to be left alone.” But most of us want to know if what we’re...
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Learn How to Crowdsource Performance Management – Webinar Nov. 14
Recognize This! – More feedback, freely given, in a timely and relevant way makes the performance management process more useful for all participants as well as the company as a whole. It’s that time...
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4 Steps to Get the Most Value from Your Company Values
Recognize This! – If you go to the trouble of developing core values, then it’s worth the effort to make those values real in the daily work of every employee. Does your company have core values...
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Fall 2012 SHRM/Globoforce Report: The Business Impact of Employee Recognition
Recognize This! – Culture management continues to rise in importance to HR leaders as the ability to measure and analyze culture also improves through strategic employee recognition. Last Friday in a...
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How to Change Ingrained Habits: Webinar with Premier Farnell Dec. 12
Recognize This! – Getting permanent behavior change requires time, repetition and emotional impact. You need your employees to quickly change their focus to new objectives to keep pace with rapidly...
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The Most Common Way Management Abdicates Leadership
Recognize This! – Managers must make the tough decisions – and the good ones – their role calls for. What’s the worst “people practice” you’ve heard? To borrow an American phrase, I’ve heard some real...
View ArticleYou Can’t Be a Team Member without a Team
Recognize This! – Evaluating team contribution and performance is as important as evaluating individual performance. Today in his always excellent Three Star Leadership blog, management guru Wally Bock...
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