The PeopleFluent Blog

Employees and managers alike both dread performance reviews. It’s likely this view partly stems from the structure of the traditional annual review. Giving continuous feedback as part of performance reviews empowers employees to set achievable goals that determine future potential.

Retailers face a cut-throat environment and one of the hottest battlegrounds is in customer service, where retailers hope to build loyalty and boost profits. Effective performance management can drive more customer-centric service and better store performance, aligning employee goals and, in turn, driving business success.

With the increasing competition for talent, organizations are looking to talent management leaders to craft an innovative strategy—an overarching approach to support the critical needs of your organization. We’ve amassed four innovative tactics to help you create a talent management strategy that primes you for success in today’s outcome-driven and employee-focused culture.

Despite the efforts of HR and business leaders, workforce management often falls short of its goal to inspire extraordinary performance at the individual and company level. This post offers insight into the five top challenges, with tips for HR leaders and business executives looking to transcend the ordinary.

Organizations face constant pressure to build a strong, effective, and sustainable leadership pipeline. But like most strategic planning, this is easier said than done. When it comes to the succession planning process, many HR managers are challenged to ensure their succession strategy is flexible enough to meet the needs of the organization and the employee, as well as shifting dynamics within their industry. Proper succession planning instills confidence across the organization that selection of future leaders is strategic, comprehensive, and fair.

What could be more critical to organizational health than developing bench strength at all levels? Or identifying your top performers—who are, on average, 4 times more productive than the average employee—so you can reward and retain them? Or determining who on your current team has the potential to lead your company into the future? Talent review meetings are perhaps the greatest opportunity companies have to maximize the value of their talent. And no business can succeed without the intelligence, innovation, and contributions of its employees.