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Change Management Must-Haves: 15 Ways to Start Your New HR Program on the Right Foot

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To do this, many companies have placed a high priority on improving the employee experience. Traditional practices around performance management, employee development and recognition and rewards have proven to be ineffective at driving retention, but it’s not as simple as replacing them with something new. Company-sponsored happy hour.

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How One Company is Creating a Feedback Culture

Kazoo

We recently sat down with Craig Wigley, VP of Employee Success, for LLamasoft, a supply chain software company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He talked about LLamasoft’s values, the problems with its previous approach to performance management and how they’re now working to create a culture where ongoing feedback is the norm.

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HighGround’s Top 5 Must-Download Resources of 2018

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From case studies and webinars to tip sheets and reports, the HighGround resource library is constantly updated with new content that helps HR leaders launch and optimize great performance management and recognition programs. Jumpstart Your Performance Management Program [webinar]. State of Meaningful Work [study].

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The New World of Performance Management Webinar Q&A

Kazoo

HighGround offers a variety of feedback types including: Group feedback. Each company approaches check-ins differently so while some might require them quarterly, others might require them much more frequently or infrequently depending on the location, department, project, etc. Are there issues with managers doing poor check-ins?

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Q&A: Dean Carter of Patagonia Answers Your Questions

Kazoo

Do you have any tips for how you handled the change management of this process? What about managers that don’t participate, how do you handle them? For companies currently following more traditional processes, where do you recommend they start? Yes, we structure our feedback template through the HighGround tool.

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Employee Engagement Tools Aren’t Just Plug-and-Play

Kazoo

It’s no secret that companies are completely reevaluating their approaches to employee performance management, workforce recognition and survey programs and now looking for employee engagement tools to help support these new approaches. Our company culture is up-and-running. Keep evolving. You’ll never say, “We’ve done it.

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The “How” Behind Performance Management Transformation [Webinar Recap]

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First, we wanted to help attendees understand what’s driving the performance management transformation we see today, on both the micro and macro level. And second, to share how one company was able to take modern processes and tools and implement them in a non-disruptive, culturally-aligned way. The rate of change is accelerating.