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15 things that you should never say in performance reviews
Millennials hate performance reviews. Yet reviews continue to be a part of many organizations where every employee has to go through […]
10 Must Read Books For Managers
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” -Harry Truman As a manager, you may feel like you […]
Delegation in the workplace is good but avoid these 4 things
One of the many qualities that make a good manager is delegation. However, what makes a great manager is that she also knows […]
8 Ways Managers Can Connect With Their Teams
True, genuine connection is the fundamental key to a successful business relationship. Both, within the office & outside of it. […]
Feature highlights: Increase transparency via company directory
Getting the team to gel together is a daunting task. But that is definitely a prerequisite to achieve great things, […]
What to Do When a Good Employee Stops Trying to Grow?
Employees at the start of their career are known to take extra efforts. They are learning the ropes of corporate […]
How to create a winning employee retention strategy?
Silicon Valley companies lead the way for coming up with innovative practices for attracting top notch talent. Soon companies the […]
How To Leverage Myers Briggs Personality Types In The Work Culture?
A company’s work culture is an intangible ecosystem that determines whether its employees will be engaged or disengaged in their […]
Importance of encouraging growth mindset at the workplace
Learning is an integral part of development and growth. Individuals who value learning and adopt it as part of their […]
Why is it Difficult to Create a Learning Organization: Role and Impact of Positive Behavior
According to the World Economic Forum, almost 39% of the current employee skill sets will be outdated by 2030. Hiring […]
Jira issues as key results or actions/initiatives
One of the common mistakes while doing OKRs is turning tasks into key results. Jira is a project management platform that […]
Importance of making organisations adaptive
Organisations are complex systems. Their degree of success or failure is probabilistic. It is the result of how different internal parts […]
Feature highlights: Controlling OKR visibility in UpRaise
Traditional goal setting has always been secretive. The goals, invariably, would be set by the manager. Besides manager, only the relevant […]
Improve the efficiency of performance review calibration
Performance reviews have been around for a long time. Yet they are only said to be effective if both parties […]
Announcing UpRaise People, app for Jira
We’ve been developing apps for Atlassian Marketplace for about 4 years now. Initially they were called plugins or add-ons. Not […]
7 biggest misconceptions about the Performance Appraisal process
In the past, we have written at length about performance reviews or appraisals, as they are sometimes called. This article […]
Performance appraisals & all hands meetings, unexpected link
Performance reviews, appraisals or evaluations – there are many variants for the term. But the perception all of them trigger is […]
4 things millennials hate about performance reviews in the workplace
Experts predict that by 2020, millennials will make up 35% of the global workforce with Gen Z making up 24%. That […]
Do Jira issues qualify as key results?
A fair bit of theoretical material exists around Objectives & Key Results. But implementing OKRs is hard. Especially if you are […]
How employee data can uncover valuable insights ?
In today’s digital age, Human resources department is an outlier. Not in good sense, though. Just look at other departments & observe […]
4 tips on how to stay on top of Jira issues
Have you noticed that even with best of intentions, it can be easy to stray off track. You ambitiously set […]
Ditch the unlimited leave policy (& why we did it)
Startups are amazing for a number of reasons. Just to name a few – thrill of working on something exciting […]
What are the cons and pros of open workspaces?
The trend of open workspaces began in the early 21st Century with an aim to increase collaboration among employees and […]
Our experience when we did OKRs for the first time
We’ve been consistently writing about the theory behind OKRs. Its benefits, advantages over traditional goal setting etc. Often, we’ve been getting […]
Importance of Context in the performance appraisal process
Imagine this: an employee walks into their performance appraisal meeting, expecting feedback that will help them grow, but instead, they […]
9 Employee Records That Need to be Maintained Diligently
Consider your team is growing at an exponential rate, and you have not been able to maintain employees’ records properly […]
How leave patterns can predict employee engagement?
Greater productivity, lesser attrition rate and higher employee satisfaction levels are just some of the benefits of increasing employee engagement […]
Importance of Organizational charts in the workplace
What is an Organizational Chart? An organizational chart, informally known as an org chart is a crucial tool that visually […]
Winning tactics for streamlining employee leave management
Employee leave management may not sound like much to the layman. Although it plays an important role in the smooth […]
KR reminders – Easiest way to ensure frequent progress updates
Every change in an organisation faces obstacles. Steepest one being of low adoption. Fortunately, the reasons are well known. People […]
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