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, ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

Teams that dream big and connect with their goals are more motivated and tend to outperform those that select safe, manageable goals. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network ...

Too many organizations still think about performance management as a compliance exercise or a check-the-box activity done ...

As a business leader, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is the value of setting clear, objective criteria for employee bonuses. Over the years, I’ve experimented with various bonus ...

In the future of work, performance management will need to adapt in order to keep up with the changing workforce. With so many developments happening, such as the increase in contract and freelance ...

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 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 ...