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How to Make Your Performance Review Process Suck Less

Next Level Blog

This is the time of year when a lot of the leaders I work with are buckling down to write up annual performance reviews for the people on their team. This is a process that almost no one enjoys – neither the reviewer or the reviewee. There are a lot of reasons why annual performance review processes usually suck.

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Performance Review Strategies To Boost Employee Retention

Strategy Driven

Performance reviews are essential for organizations because they help measure workforce productivity, identify gaps, and address them to get things on track. You may also encounter a high turnover challenge if your review process has drawbacks. Let us share a few performance review strategies to boost employee retention.

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Performance Review Software Comparison: Choosing the Best Performance Review Tools

HR Digest

When it comes to evaluating employee performance, having the right tools in place is crucial. With numerous options available, conducting a performance review software comparison becomes essential. With that in mind, The HR Digest has created a performance review software comparison of top five available tools right now.

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Striking the Right Tone: Things to Say in a Performance Review

HR Digest

among many others, published a list of performance review horror stories from unhappy employees and it is hard not to wince at these experiences. Finding the right things to say in a performance review can be difficult, both for the reviewer and the employee, but it is undeniably important for everyone to try and get it right.

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How to Write a Performance Review: The Journey from Start to Finish

HR Digest

With an endless list of employees working under you, figuring out how to write a meaningful performance review can be very difficult. While annual reviews are slowly going out of style, employee performance reviews are still a crucial process that allows employers and employees to track individual progress.

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A Practical Application – Performance Reviews

Joseph Lalonde

For many people, performance reviews seem like rather soulless exercises driven by organizational imperatives. Designed to measure performance in order to determine whether employees have met their goals and thus have contributed to the organization’s results, they are usually highly structured, formulaic, and data-oriented.

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Choose the Right Employee Evaluation Phrases in Your Performance Reviews

HR Digest

For anyone in a managerial role, writing employee evaluations becomes a repetitive task and there are only so many times they can write “good performer” and “team player” without running out of useful employee evaluation phrases. According to an SHRM article, managers spend an average of 210 hours a year on performance management activities.