Performance Management

You’re an HR manager trying to track performance across a fast-growing team. There are endless spreadsheets to review, you have already missed deadlines and feedback seems biased. Traditional performance measurement methods can hardly produce error-free real-time progress cards when you need them the most.  This is where utilizing AI in performance management becomes imperative. It […]

If you have ever sat in a meeting and felt everyone was agreeing just to keep the peace, you’ve seen groupthink in action. It’s what happens when teams choose comfort over conflict, and real opinions get buried. 86% of employees feel they’re not heard fairly at work. And when people stop speaking up, teams start

You’ve probably seen it in action without ever giving it a name. A bonus promised for closing a certain number of deals. A warning issued when deadlines slip. These aren’t just everyday management tactics; they’re examples of transactional leadership at work. A transactional leadership style is built around clear expectations, measurable results and performance-linked outcomes.

You’ve offered the perks, the flexibility, and maybe even a mental health day or two, but your team still seems off. They’re quiet in meetings, slow to respond, and the energy just isn’t there. Managers often assume that low employee engagement means their team just needs more motivation. But often, the real issue is employee

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the first digital camera in 1975? But its top executives decided not to pursue it, fearing it would adversely affect their film business. By the time Kodak embraced digital, it was too late. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Now imagine a smaller-scale version of this playing

A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is often seen as a step toward termination or as nothing more than an employee performance review. However, in today’s data-driven and agile marketplace, a PIP can be designed to help employees meet expectations and succeed. This is only possible through active participation from both employer and employee as part

Does goal setting fit into an organization’s performance management strategy? Or can goal setting based on modern frameworks like Objectives and Key Results (OKR) work well with performance management systems? The answer is yes, it can. In the rest of this piece, we will go into how the two can coexist and work to each

Continuous performance management is the modern response to the overhaul of traditional annual performance reviews. The continuous performance management system is a style that is becoming increasingly popular among companies, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic changed the way most workplaces across the world function.  It is viewed as the bastion of agile. With attitudes toward