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What Employee Handbook Topics Should You Cover?

HR Digest

Company mission statement: Your company’s mission statement is an important part of its identity, so it should be included in the HR handbook. An introduction: This explains why an employee needs a handbook and what it’s for. You should give a brief rundown on all that is contained in the handbook.

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Business Purpose Alignment: How to Connect People to Your Purpose

CO2

Articulating a purpose statement is hard. Mission statements tend to undergo lots of changes during their first five years,” Cohen explains. One-on-ones, performance reviews, and everyday conversations are all opportunities for conveying the importance of purpose within your organization. .

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Business Purpose Alignment: How to Connect People to Your Purpose

CO2

Don’t be afraid to revisit it Articulating a purpose statement is hard. Mission statements tend to undergo lots of changes during their first five years,” Cohen explains. One-on-ones, performance reviews, and everyday conversations are all opportunities for conveying the importance of purpose within your organization.

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5 Questions To Ask At Your Next Employee Performance Review

Eric Jacobson

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5 Questions To Ask At Your Next Employee Performance Review Here are five important questions you, as a manager and leader, should ask during employee performance reviews: What have I done to help - or hinder - your job performance? How To Uncover The Real Reasons Your Employees Lea.

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Managing Performance When It’s Hard to Measure

Harvard Business Review

And as anyone who has ever given or received a traditional performance review knows, this process can be highly subjective — even in the most metrics-obsessed organizations. Conventional performance reviews can also undermine a company’s agility and lead to missed opportunities.

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What's Your Default?

Harvard Business Review

These are refreshing and inspiring aspirations in a world of murky and generic mission statements. Inside the company, business plans, sales data, project status, customer feedback, performance reviews, recruitment details, are open to all. The company's radical devotion to thrift in a spendthrift world has attracted 7.5

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How I Got My Team To Fail More

Harvard Business Review

We originally envisioned the metric as a formal KPI in each staffer’s annual performance review. But we soon realized we had created a contradiction: You can’t build a culture that values rapid iteration by simply changing an annual performance cycle. Incremental because, well, we didn’t want to get fired.

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