When you are looking for a job, it is necessary to gauge what the hiring managers are looking for, and what would they would like to avoid. It’s not easy to land the job of your dreams, and it rarely ever fall into the lap without putting in much effort. But, there are a few do’s and dont’s that can help you get one step closer to getting that job.
Author: Srikant Chellappa
Srikant Chellappa is the Co-Founder and CEO at Engagedly and is a passionate entrepreneur and people leader. He is an author, producer/director of 6 feature films, a music album with his band Manchester Underground, and is the host of The People Strategy Leaders Podcast.
Be A Better Manager And Avoid These 5 Mistakes
It’s not an easy job to become a good manager. It takes a lot more than just delegating and telling employees what to do and what not to do. In this article, we are going to focus on manager mistakes and take a look at how they impact employee engagement and employee performance.
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Have You Invested In the Correct Performance Management Tool?
Employee Performance Management has always been one of the most important processes in organizations. Managers and organizations are continuously evaluating employee performance in an attempt to improve the overall productivity of the organization. Effective Performance Management helps in aligning individual employee goals with team and organizational goals. A performance management system should essentially include aspects such as performance review, goal-setting, employee feedback, rewards, and recognition.
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Everything Depends on the Right Kind of Goal Setting. Here’s Why
We all agree to this point that goal setting helps us focus and achieve things faster. Good goal setting brings good results, but poor goal setting brings poor results.
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Continuous Performance Management: A necessity during COVID-19
Everyone dreads a performance review, not only the employees but the managers as well. If you have recently become a manager, then you would surely know how difficult it is to conduct a performance review. With time, the annual performance review has been replaced with continuous performance management in organizations worldwide. The current COVID-19 situation and multiple employees working from home has made it – necessary to have a continuous performance management system in place. Continue reading “Continuous Performance Management: A necessity during COVID-19”
Awkward Post Review Conversations? We Have Your Back
Post a performance review, conversations can get a little awkward. It is hard to see these conversations as being anything other than stressful. Often times, when you are the initiator of a difficult conversation, it makes you feel like the bad cop, especially when the person on the other side expresses a lot of emotions, either in the form of anger or tears.
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Don’t Do These 4 Things During A Performance Review
It’s that time of the year again. Yes. But love them or hate them, performance reviews are here to stay. So you better understand their importance and educate your employees about it.
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What Do Successful Leaders Do to Sustain Success?
Who doesn’t want to be successful? We all visualize ourselves to be successful leaders one day. But do we know what these successful leaders are doing differently to actually live our dream in reality?
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Creating a Performance Based Culture in Your Organization
Whether you like the idea or not, a lot depends on a company’s foundational values and culture. Yes, every organization has one and it always differs from the rest.
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Looking To Be An Effective Leader? Here’s How
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way – John C. Maxwell.
Every organization needs a strong and effective leader to drive it to success. Without strong and clear leadership, it is impossible to achieve success for your organization. Hence it becomes imperative for all organizations to have strong leadership at all levels. Continue reading “Looking To Be An Effective Leader? Here’s How”
8 Key Features to Look For in a Performance Management Tool
Performance management can be a comprehensive and time-consuming process. Hence, every organization has a performance management process or tool in place to get the best out of their employees. Efficient performance management of employees helps organizations become successful, while it helps employees grow personally, and professionally. Continue reading “8 Key Features to Look For in a Performance Management Tool”
Conduct an Informed Performance Discussion
Conducting a performance review discussion need not feel like rocket science. Every time it looms large, performance reviews tend to have a similar effect on all employees: shooting up their level of stress.
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Teamwork Challenges Because Of Performance Reviews
Employee performance review is one of the most popular practices in today’s world for evaluating employee performance.
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Don’t Let Recency Bias Affect Your Performance Discussions
Performance reviews are often rigged with biases. It is an inescapable fact, mainly because we are human beings and some of these biases spring from just being us.
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7 Tips To Make Your Goal Setting Effective
Goal setting is a tedious and daunting process, if one is just starting off. But it should be considered as one of the most important tasks of a manager because of its numerous benefits. Having effective goals increases employee productivity, motivates them, improves decision making and time management skills, and promotes teamwork. That’s why it’s important to set goals for your employees which are effective. Continue reading “7 Tips To Make Your Goal Setting Effective”
Be The Compassionate Leader All Want To Work For
We are all aware of how toxic leaders can wreck an organization. We don’t need a study to prove that. Toxic leaders can take a perfectly good organization and wreck it from the inside out.
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7 Successful Strategies to Conduct A Stay Interview
As per a recent study by Gallup on employee retention and attrition, they found out that: Continue reading “7 Successful Strategies to Conduct A Stay Interview”
Getting Back to Work Post COVID-19: 7 Things to Consider
As restrictions are being lifted across the world and people are slowly transitioning back to work, regular work life is forthcoming for many. Businesses that have been struggling with social distancing, isolation, remote working and so on, will finally be able to resume functions, though normalcy will take a little more time.
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6 Stay Interview Challenges To Be Aware Of
As per 2019 Work Institute Research, three in four employees who left the organization could have been retained. Out of every 100 workers: Continue reading “6 Stay Interview Challenges To Be Aware Of”
Good HR Management Software Can Promote Work-Life Balance
We often neglect the other aspects of our lives, immersing ourselves into work. But we also know, that in order to truly live a life of satisfaction, it is not just important, its mandatory to have work-life balance, especially since now most of us are working from home.
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A Guide to Understanding Job Competencies
Imagine you’re the HR manager of an organisation and have already had a stressful day at work. An employee, who has been trying to reach out to you since morning, finally walks up to you and reports of harassment from a colleague.
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