Tips to make your next performance appraisal powerful & effective

Many firms are starting a new cycle in their employee performance review process and this year it is even more challenging with the economic downturn. For both managers and employees employee performance appraisals can be a very stressful time. However, there are ways to turn this highly charged time of year into a constructive conversation [...]

Recently I was asked if time and results were the only things you could use to measure employee performance. Here’s a snippet of my response.The most important thing to remember when measuring performance is that you are trying to measure the things that make the most difference (not just the things that can be measured). [...]