What’s the secret to unlocking the full potential of your team? Many argue that modeling and expecting high performance becomes the key. The problem? High-performance management is often trickier than ...

You can’t have a high-performing company without high-performance management. But high performance is more than just another management style. For leaders who consistently nudge the needle toward ...

The recently issued mandate, “Performance Management for Federal Employees,” requires agencies to “provide a firm benchmark towards which employees must aim their performance.” It’s on point but fails ...

I’ve worked in the fields of resilience, performance psychology and leadership science for over 20 years. In that time, my team and I have heard leaders ask one question over and over again. It’s one ...

A well-rounded performance management process isn't just about measuring an employee's success in the past, it can be an excellent tool for helping them develop skills for the future. A performance ...

To fix performance management systems, C. Allen Gorman, Ph.D., industrial-organizational psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business, suggests implementing a ...

Among the many ways the pandemic changed the nature of work, performance management processes, procedures and systems are among the most glaring. Managers and team members alike were, for the most ...

It’s time to stop managing imaginary employees and start engineering real human performance. Why do we spend millions on performance management systems that everyone—managers, employees, and ...

The plan to institute a forced or “standardized” distribution of performance ratings upon the federal workforce has survived ...

One critical question that I had contended with for sometime as a public service institutional reformer is, why it has been so very difficult to institute performance-oriented values and systems (PMS) ...

Why do we spend millions on performance management systems that everyone—managers, employees, and executives—openly admits are broken? The answer is uncomfortable but simple. We’ve designed these ...