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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. Let us share a few performance review strategies to boost employee retention. Ideally, your performance reviews should be constructive rather than negative.

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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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When You Criticize Someone, You Make It Harder for that Person to Change

Harvard Business Review

This approach gives managers a tool for coaching their teams to get better results. Managers should keep this in mind, particularly during performance reviews. Managers should keep this in mind, particularly during performance reviews. Of course a manager needs to help people face what’s not working.

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Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within

Harvard Business Review

This immersion unlocks insight into how to best reach customers, inspire employees, and drive organizational performance in geographies outside one's "home base." Other consumer-focused companies such as IKEA and Starbucks are following in KFC's footsteps, but the learning curve is both steep and long.

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A 3-Step Plan for Turning Weaknesses into Strengths

Harvard Business Review

In fact, managers report that after giving people feedback in a performance review, fewer than 10% of them look any different a year later. The Swedish psychologist Anders Ericsson has shown that our learning curve steepens the most when we engage in what he calls deliberate practice. Design Deliberate Practice.

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When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

But, no matter where we are on the technology learning curve, the one thing we know for sure is that if we are going to learn it well, we have to consult those who have the skill. On the other hand, others of us are hard pressed to know how to turn on our computers, if indeed we even own a computer.