Can employee performance be partially evaluated by Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)? John Doerr’s successful introduction of the OKR methodology to Google made way for today’s widespread goal-based management in new companies. Grading and coaching. Table of Contents. MORE

Tara asked why we didn’t offer a feature that provided incentives to employees for their healthy choices through our recognition and rewards engine. The leadership team was listening, and in short order, one of our most popular features, the Behavior Bonus, was born. MORE

today announced that Microsoft’s Translator technology powers translation features across TalentGuard’s product suite including Performance, Career Pathing, Succession Planning, Certification Tracking and 360 Feedback. TalentGuard is a global provider of competency-based talent management solutions delivered as Software-as-a-Service. TalentGuard also helps improve business outcomes with our extended network of credentialed career coaches, training programs and content. MORE

WWT brings TalentGuard’s full Talent Management Suite to Latin America. Through this partnership, WWT broadens its talent management offering enabling customers to better manage their workforce and deliver cost-effective services to the LATAM region. Talent management is critically important to companies operating in Latin America because of high competition, turnover and cultural norms that are ingrained into the workforce operations. MORE

I recently ran into a study on effective performance management practices that I want to share with you. Not because it says anything really new, but because it does a great job on focus and insight, attributes we can all use when it comes to performance management. MORE

Certainly if you compare changes in reward to the huge changes which have taken place in recruitment, learning, communication etc, and now even in performance management, I think reward looks increasingly out of step. MORE

Buckingham dealt less with the more formal aspects of performance management but it’s this that was covered extensively in the Harvard Business Review. Actual performance accounts for only 21% of the variance. So traditional performance reviews are clearly very unlikely to work. MORE

The HR Daily Advisor research team conducted the 2016 Talent and Performance Management Survey in January, 2016. Talent and performance management are some of the most important and rigorous tasks any HR professional has to deal with. Managing Shortages. HR manager. MORE

If you are going to make sure your compensation and performance management programs are procedurally fair , you've got research, analysis and strategy development to complete. Managers are more likely to support employee focus groups when they are in an August frame of mind, as well. MORE

If you're an HR office of one, busily juggling everything from beneficiary forms to incentive awards, it's hard to believe that you share any pressures with other HR managers. Payment of bonus is determined by the CEO after the "books are closed" and results are discussed with Board. MORE

Is "making teams better" the new holy grail of performance analytics? More quantitative attention is being paid to how well players improve the in-game performances of their teammates. Indeed, how can the coaches improve the TQ—Teamness Quotient—of their players’ performances? MORE

I’ve been black in tech for a long time,” says Leslie , who has worked for the Obama Foundation and was an engineering director and manager at Slack, Twitter, Apple, and Google. It’s about using data to make workplaces more inclusive and equitable,” he says. MORE