Today’s business climate is all about change. As a modern organisation, that means you need to embrace the mindset to quickly shift, pivot and, change your strategic goals as business needs change. Technology plays a key factor in this, and that means your technology solution should reflect the experience your team has in their day to day lives…Flexible, Relevant, In […]

The power of a modern Performance Management System comes from aligning technology, human resources and the company’s top C-suite executives in efforts to ensure that the system works as intended. Managers and staff in today’s corporate environments often dread annual performance reviews that can be subjective, demeaning, disregarded and excessively time-consuming. However, designing an effective competency […]

The performance management process often gets ignored in today’s agile operating environments where people change jobs quickly and employees often care more about their industry and peer reputations than they do about company rankings. Many companies have replaced the formal performance review with greater managerial input into daily operations, social media and customer reviews and […]

One thing that we all don’t do often is give ourselves compliments (unless you’re a fearless and confident person). There’s never a specific national day that’s dedicated towards giving and receiving compliments. However, if we’re looking at it from a modern workplace perspective you’d be happy to know that there is a day specific towards […]

Performance management is essentially overseeing the relationship between organisational objectives and the skills, experience and capabilities of an organisation’s employees. Overseeing this linear relationship will involve drawing and analysing the aligned results developed. These results emerge from different stages through business activity – either the middle of productivity or at the end stage. In essence, […]

One of the most common problems almost 90% of employees suffer in the workplace is a lack of positive feedback. This situation is found in most of the organisations and unfortunately most of the employees have to go through this crisis.  Feedback deficiency occurs everywhere, irrespective of the size of the organisation. Another important facet of […]

We often tend to be confused when it comes to making the distinction between employee performance and productivity. Generally, we don’t manage to grasp the subtle differences between the management of these two concepts. While productivity management comes down to HR management systems, performance management actually is a tool that can be used to rollout […]

We all know that having relationships is important (arguable by those who are anti-social – however, since you’re on management’s side you should have some sort of communication skill locked in). Relationships help us flourish in ways we never thought we could. They act as support systems that we never even registered to pay for, […]

You may or may not have heard of Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream…!”. Whether you have or haven’t, the point coming across is each and every person on this planet has a dream. Some dreams are smaller but simple or bigger but complex. We all have different dreams and we hope to […]

It is fair to say that every business is different. From the corporate level to the employee level, there are always clear nuances that set one enterprise apart from the other. These are often described as competencies – the various skills, abilities, experience, personality traits and motivators that contribute to someone performing well in their […]