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Compensating employees based on performance seems like a solid idea. In theory, it makes perfect sense: High performance equals increased compensation, which further motivates employees and leads to even higher performance. The reality, however, is different enough that it has many human resource experts wondering if pay-for-performance is anything more than a trendy concept. The…
Interested in driving up the employee engagement within your organization? If your answer is yes, then you won’t want to miss this three part webinar series that is devoted to helping you increase employee engagement by integrating competencies in numerous talent management processes, such as talent acquisition, performance management, learning & development and career development.…
We have all heard the old adage, “You’re only as strong as your weakest link.” This is particularly true in business. If we want a strong, efficient, and productive company, we must ensure we have strong, efficient, and productive people, but how do we do that? An integrated competency framework can help. Competency models enable…
Piecing together the puzzle Building the best team is like putting together a puzzle where the pieces are mixed in with the pieces from other puzzles. Define the team’s objectives A common mistake made by leaders is to assume that an arbitrary collection of folks makes a team, and that all such “teams” can achieve…
(1st in a Series on Improving Performance) I wrote the book Creating High Performance Software Development Teams about 15 years ago. It was published by Prentice Hall PTR and did OK in the market. To be honest, it didn’t do well at all. After a few years wallowing in the market, Prentice Hall decided to…
Multi-source, or 360-degree, reviews are quickly becoming one of the most frequently utilized forms of assessments in companies. It’s surprising then that so few businesses truly understand the two most important things about them. 1) Despite the manner in which many companies use it, individual improvement is not the primary advantage of 360-degree feedback. While…
What’s more useful: A performance review in which one or two supervisors tell an employee how she has performed over the course of the evaluation period in the areas the supervisors were likely to notice. A multi-source review in which an employee evaluates his own performance and is given feedback from everyone he works with and…
TalentGuard’s integrates with Curo’s best-in-class compensation management system to add greater visibility into employee rewards and bo Austin, Texas – October 19, 2015 – TalentGuard Inc., a leading provider of competency-based talent management solutions announced a partnership agreement with Curo. TalentGuard can now offer customers the ability to reward and compensate performance with transparency and…
