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Incorporating 160 Effective Performance Phrases in Your Performance Appraisal Review Templates

HR Digest

With the right performance review templates and sample performance appraisals, you can create a language that resonates with your employees, helping them understand their strengths and areas for improvement. Uses active listening skills to understand others’ perspectives. But what makes an effective performance review?

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

Sample questions include: “Knowledge and information from our partner is freely shared with us” and “Our partner openly listens to our ideas and opinions.” Heat degrades the substrate of innovation, while light catalyzes it.” However, you must create more light than heat when you engage in conflict.

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To Get More Out of Social Media, Think Like an Anthropologist

Harvard Business Review

They frame listening as a descriptive exercise rather than the high-potential strategic project it should become. Although insights from social listening can and should drive corporate strategy and innovation, these are more likely trapped inside the marketing and service departments that “own” them.

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