People are Like Plants: 4 Tips to Cultivate Your People into Hardy Crops
People are like plants; they need someone to cultivate them so they can grow into hardy crops. Here are four tips for leaders to cultivate plants into hardy crops.
Posts Tagged: performance management
The Evolution of Performance Management in Government
Policymakers wanting to improve their government’s performance are often presented with a rich menu of choices by their advisers. They are told that they could choose from several options: Budgeting Reforms, Performance Budgeting, Outcome Budgeting, Performance Agreement, Project Management, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E), ISO 9000, Lean Sigma and so on. Alas, as we shall see,… Read more »
How to Reward Star Employees When Money Isn’t an Option
Performance-based reward systems can have significant effects on employee motivation. This sounds simple but is actually very difficult to implement. Learn how you can best reward and motivate your agency’s employees.
3 Reasons You Should Automate Employee Performance Management
There are a number of benefits to automating the employee performance management process. Read them here!
How Technology is Transforming Performance Management
Many government agencies are still using pencil-and-paper-based performance management systems that simply no longer work. Learn how incorporating technology into your performance management can help.
What’s Fair? Managing Perceptions of Performance Management Programs
Agencies use performance management programs to inform employee decisions related to compensation, transfers, promotions and workforce cuts. But sometimes perceptions of the fairness of these programs can affect employee motivation. Learn how you can navigate in your agency.
Managing an Employee with Low Resilience
Managing an employee who is under performing or engaging in misconduct can be a challenge. But mentoring these employees and helping them build resilience will often bring about better results.
Does Your Agency Have a Plan for High Potential Employee Flight Risk?
Does a great employee show signs of wanting to leave? Don’t let your high potentials go that easy. Learn how you can identify flight risks and motivate future leaders to stay.
4 Ways to Develop Your Leadership Bench
To foster the development of the agency’s leaders of tomorrow, agencies need to build action plans to grow leadership bench strength today.
The Annual Performance Review vs. the Competency Assessment
Federal agencies should implement two performance management processes: the traditional process mandated by OPM, which reviews the accomplishments and shortcomings of the past year as well as forward-looking assessment of competency benchmarks, to project readiness in current and future roles.