by Ira Wolfe | Nov 2, 2010 | Employee Performance Management
Evaluating employee performance is an ongoing process. It involves frequent meetings in which employees and supervisors clarify job expectations, set specific goals, and have opportunities to give each other feedback. For this process to go smoothly, supervisors must...
by Ira Wolfe | Oct 17, 2010 | Employee Performance Management
Can you feel it? It’s performance review season! Managers are buzzing about performance reviews. Unfortunately the anticipation isn’t necessarily positive. Let’s be honest. The review meeting has become little more than a ritual. If it wasn’t for...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 29, 2010 | Employee Performance Management
Despite the prevalence of annual performance reviews at major companies and small businesses alike, many management teams are still unsure as to how to effectively leverage an employee’s review to produce positive – and ideally, productive – results. As a result the...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 7, 2010 | Employee Performance Management
Ask any manager what he hates most about his or her job and you’ll likely hear “performance reviews”. For many reasons, these periodic employee evaluations have been done poorly if at all in the past. What follows is a list of the 10 most important reasons why...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 5, 2010 | Employee Performance Management
Social media is becoming a great way for recruiters to announce job openings and find qualified candidates. The social media revolution has unleashed a torrent of new employer tools to obtain information about applicants. For example, the Internet puts at an...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 31, 2010 | Employee Performance Management
Employers and employees are obviously headed for a collision to be played out in a workplace near you. A recently released Deloitte report called the standoff “a tale of two mindsets.” Many employers seem to believe their employees have few options in this weak...