How Valuable are Employee Self-Assessments when it Comes to Tracking Employee Performance?
Employee self-assessments can help in shaping performance goals, improving performance metrics, and creating a plan for career development. Whenever a manager is evaluating an employee, the more information they have, the better the outcome. Self-assessments provide...
When Employee Goals Don’t Align: Having Tough Conversations With Strong Performers
If an employee is having a hard time reaching his or her goals, there can be a number of things going wrong. In order to get things on track, leaders need to look at the employee’s work history, level of passion, and the individual’s success rate to determine from...
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...
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.