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Your Guide to OKR: Objectives and Key Results

What is OKR? OKR, which stands for objectives key results, describes a management style that connects employee work tasks to overall strategic company goals. The objectives key results approach can include both company objectives and personal goals for career development. Objectives are the goals that your company – or your employees personally – want to […]
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Best Practice 360 Review Tips

Organisations these days are moving towards the continuous 360-degree mode of feedback instead of the traditional annual performance review process.  This regular, 360-degree approach is incredibly useful as it provides the opportunity to gain inputs from multiple team members, including the individuals that work closest with them or are collaborating on projects. Periodic reviews where you […]
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How to Optimise Your Employee Performance Appraisals

Performance management entails a lot more than mere employee performance appraisals.  A well-rounded performance appraisal needs to be a summary of a continuous year-round dialogue. If you focus only on the annual appraisal, it will create misunderstanding and lead to non-appreciation of the advantages of holistic performance management. An effective performance management process facilitates managers […]
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Key Tactics To Retain Your High Performers

One of the key concerns for Human Resource professionals and CEOs is how to retain and grow high potential high performers. According to a study carried out by LinkedIn, it’s the norm for today’s generation of professionals to change jobs at least four times within the first ten years of graduating. This rate is double the rate […]
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A Roadmap For Effective Goal Setting – Tips

Goal setting has universal application – career, health, love & life in general. Today’s modern society constantly encourages us to ponder upon the next milestone. What is lacking, however, is the strategy of how to accomplish these goals. This article will serve as a roadmap for effective goal setting. According to experts, goal setting is the […]
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Guiding Principles for Developing and Setting Employee Performance Goals

Every organisation aims to achieve its business objectives through efficient and intelligent utilisation of its workforce. This would be a relatively simple exercise if every employee was aligned and understood the strategic goals of the organisation and also, clearly understood what exactly they need to do to meet their individual goals. Goal setting is the process […]
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Significance of Continuous Feedback for Performance Appraisals

The objective behind the performance appraisal process is to correct, guide, and motivate employees. It also facilitates the growth of the employees and helps in achieving business goals. Appraisals as a norm are held once or twice a year in most of the organisations. It is only during these times that employees and managers sit […]
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Aligning HR And Business Goals

What according to you is the most important skill of an HR leader? Apart from having knowledge of industrial relations, acting as the cultural ambassador, and possessing conflict resolution skills, the latest research has indicated that the most significant skill of an HR professional is to be able to connect the strategic business goals of […]
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16 Employee Engaging Team Building Games

One of the most effective ways to make your team feel connected and work collaboratively in a more engaging & fun way, is through team building games. These are broken down into  communication activities, problem solving and/or decision making activities, adaptability and/or planning activities, and activities that focus on building trust. The key is to find the right […]
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How Cascading Goals Impact Employee Performance

It has been observed that  employee performance appraisals are usually conducted without much thought for the business goals or needs. When goals are misaligned and not clear, it may limit both individual performance, as well as organisational performance, resulting in reduced engagement levels. Rarely do organisations cascade goals from the executive team down to the different departments and finally to the employees. […]