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If You Aren’t Revisiting Your Employees Goals, How Are You Helping Them Grow?
Goals are a critical component of long-term employee success. All of your team members have personal career goals. Some may be more specific than others, but most people have at general idea of where they want to be and what they hope to achieve. It is the...
One Size Doesn’t Fit All: How to Approach Negative and Positive Feedback Effectively
Positive feedback and praise are easy to give. Everybody loves to hear that they’ve done something right, and managers reap benefits from reinforcing positive behavior. Unfortunately, there is no way to escape negative feedback. Nobody is perfect, and there will be...
Stop Feeling Around in the Dark: Light the Path to Success with Consistent Employee Performance Feedback
Timely and constructive feedback is an essential component of any successful performance-management program. Employees must know in a timely manner what they are doing right, and what isn’t working well. When used in conjunction with performance goals, employee...
Why The Best Leaders Make Performance Feedback A Priority
Leadership experts have spent a lot of time examining the use of annual performance reviews as a means of driving engagement. Most agree that even when they are executed well, once-yearly evaluations do little to drive real results or create meaningful change. What...
So You Want To Win A “Best Places To Work” Award? Here’s What To Do
Every year we are inundated with “Best Places to Work” lists from our local business journals, newspapers, national publications, and trade journals. The gold standard of these is the top 100 list published by Great Place to Work. Many entrepreneurs study these lists...
14 Questions to Help You Become a More Effective Business Leader
Leadership coaches spend a lot of time driving home the power of questions. Questions drive innovation and change. Without questions, there is no motivation for leaders to improve their own performance. If you aren’t asking questions of yourself and your team, it will...
Beth Armknecht Miller’s passion for learning and dedication to bringing out the best in others are strands woven throughout her career and are found in her work with Executive Velocity, a top talent and leadership development advisory firm.