As a manager, the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there. -- Ken Blanchard I am continually surprised by how many businesses do not set any ...

Once or twice a year, there's a deliverable that presents a challenge to both managers and their employees: performance reviews. While many companies conduct annual reviews, some are adopting a more ...

Goal-setting and tracking tools enable you to project achievements, record progress and establish key performance indicators.

Most organizations have some sort of performance appraisal system in place to evaluate decisions related to promotions, salary hikes and professional development. To execute that, a set of ...

Explore 14 employee performance management tools to measure employee performance, track goals and improve productivity.

Setting good business goals is easy. Implementing a plan to get your employees working towards actually reaching those goals is a completely different story. It can be one of the most challenging ...

The prevailing business leadership advice has always assumed that goal setting is a top-down process. During my time at consulting firm Bain & Co., and later as vice president at the large auto-parts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about management in its many forms. I recently did a piece on preparing for employee performance reviews (aka, the ...

I recently got to visit with a number of senior leaders after speaking at a leadership conference. Through multiple conversations, I noticed a pattern in their comments about the current challenges ...

We all want to set smart goals at work and in our personal lives, but there's an actual SMART goal system that's focused on setting achievable goals, and it's worth checking out. TMRW did some digging ...

Although roughly 60%-70% of individuals in the U.S. start off the year with New Year's resolutions, we're probably reaching the point in the year when sticking to them is becoming harder and harder.