Setting employee and team performance goals is an essential responsibility for business owners and managers. However, measuring and improving an employee’s performance can be complex and daunting, ...

Ask coaching questions to help the employee land on goals that connect to their motivations and the business’s growth needs.

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 ...

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 ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Stephen Nalley Throughout ...

The smartest AI tools won’t just automate your goals—they’ll slow you down long enough to set the right ones. Because in performance, reflective design is what turns motion into meaning. In the ...

Have you ever been in the middle of a project and gotten stuck because you had to wait for that one piece of information from a co-worker? Have you gone into work expecting to have a progress meeting ...

The June 17 memo from the Office of Personnel Management’s acting Director Charles Ezell, “Performance Management for Federal Employees”, reflects an important development for managing employee ...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 20% of new employees leave the company they’ve joined after less than a year. The average tenure today is 3.6 years (and declining). Tenure in ...