The idea of replacing the formal employee review with a 2.0 While most companies still have an employee review process, it’s true that traditional annual reviews have long been on life support. But performance reviews have been fatally flawed from the start. Employee recognition. MORE

Employee engagement is one of the most popular yet misunderstood organizational topics. It’s a key competitive differentiator in the modern business landscape, and unsurprisingly, highly-engaged teams perform much better than their counterparts. What is Employee Engagement? MORE

Any number of strategies can foster employee engagement, but the truth is that your company’s managers generate the greatest results because they occupy the hot-seat positions that affect day-to-day operations, company culture and staff performance. In fact Gallup research reveals managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores across business units. Seven Consensus Strategies for Manager Engagement. Empower Managers. MORE

Over the past few months, we’ve run a series of posts covering findings from the latest SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey. The Proven Links Between Retention and Employee Experience ). 1% of Payroll: The Magic Number for Social Recognition Investment ). MORE

Your performance management strategy may look great on paper, but its success depends entirely on execution. Because managers are the ones driving the process, their commitment is what makes your strategy a hit or miss. But employees crave feedback—good and bad. MORE

The importance of employee recognition is often overlooked – are you aware of the impact? Employee recognition is essential for motivating, retaining and fully engaging our employees. What employee recognition is – and what it isn’t. MORE

HR teams are constantly pressed for employee appreciation ideas, and for good reason — according to Gallup , employees who don’t feel appreciated are twice as likely to say they’ll quit in the next year. Over the years, Kazoo has helped countless companies with their employee recognition software. If your team needs inspiration for some employee appreciation ideas, the five tips below are based on success stories from Kazoo customers. MORE

Performance Tracking Tools. It helps organizations establish employee performance standards and enables managers to evaluate employees’ job performance in relation to these standards. Enable 360-degree feedback between managers, employees, and peers. MORE

Don’t you wish you could convince your stubborn colleagues of the business value of praise and recognition? We recently published a paper titled, The ROI of Social Recognition: 7 Ways it Drives Business Success. It improves talent management and performance data. MORE

It creates turnover costs, difficulty in recruiting, employees who are unmotivated and less productive, and negatively impacts your customer experience. Our research for the Employee Experience Optimized showed that 91% of employees whose leadership regularly lived up to the company’s core values had an excellent employee experience vs. only 41% of those that didn’t.How can leadership live out those values? MORE

A new market has emerged: Employee feedback apps for the corporate marketplace. These tools are powerful and disruptive, and they have the potential to redefine how we manage our organizations. Why is there such a wide variation in employee engagement and retention? MORE

While this seems obvious, companies didn’t always focus on employee performance management to stimulate growth and satisfaction as they do now. But employee engagement is really a metric to understand the success of your overall employee performance management strategy. MORE

It’s no surprise that employee engagement numbers have been abysmal for the last few years (and if that is a surprise, you need to read our blog more often.) According to Gallup, engaged employees comprise only around 30% of the workforce. 2) Performance Management Technology 2.0. MORE