Instead, teach your employees how to seek it. By Jeanine Prime, Ph.D., and Brian Kropp Here’s a dispiriting stat: Only 38 percent of HR leaders believe their performance management (PM) systems are keeping up with the pace of business, according to Gartner’s 2019 Performance Management Benchmarking Survey. Sound familiar? Those same leaders […]

Positive feedback alone won’t cut it. To truly reach your employees (and achieve personal growth) you need to take the bad with the good. By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D., John W. Fleenor, David W. Bracken, and Allan H. Church We live in a world filled with feedback. In the digital […]

Everything you think you know about feedback is (mostly) wrong. By Elaine Lin Hering Feedback: Lots of us claim to love it and others have conflicted relationships with it. We all want it … just not in that tone, or on that issue, and certainly, not from you. So why is it that despite […]

Constructive criticism can transform an employee’s trajectory—and your organization’s culture. But no one will buy it if you don’t market the message. By Angela Lane and Sergey Gorbatov Here’s a simple truth: Feedback drives improvement.  It can trigger a powerful, virtuous cycle of development: awareness, deliberate practice, positive reinforcement, course […]

In a world of analytics, workplace surveys are going extinct. If you really want to learn about the people in your organization, you’ll need to start monitoring them—with their permission.  By Brian Kropp, Ph.D. For as long as you’ve been tasked with learning about your employees, you’ve undoubtedly used large-scale […]

Most managers only like giving good feedback. But if you really want to break through to your employees and build a culture that lasts, it’s time to go negative. By Angela Lane and Sergey Gorbatov “Can I give you some feedback?” is one of the most loaded questions in our […]

Trust is a must in the workplace. Where does it begin? You might be surprised. By Ashley Keating Employees have to trust their managers, and vice versa. A good relationship between both parties boosts organizational commitment, performance, and cooperative behaviors. But building that bond doesn’t begin with the boss—it starts […]

Beware: The kind of note you put in the suggestion box could be holding you back. By Ashley Keating Employee suggestions keep a workplace churning—but some ideas stick more than others, finds a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology. In fact, one type of tip could totally backfire. Suggestions […]