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When performance appraisals are done correctly, they provide valuable development and growth insight to employees that can be used to advance their careers. However, when done incorrectly, performance appraisals can be intimidating for both the manager that has to write them and the employee that has to receive them. In the last blog, we discussed […]

In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, organizations need to be able to create an organizational culture that identifies challenges/opportunities, creates a plan of attack, and then measures/tracks them to make sure they are headed in the right direction. A “Performance Management Culture” ensures activities and outputs by the organization, a department, or

Selling for most sales reps has drastically changed in 2020. For salespeople that have never sold online before, this new environment may have them feeling fearful, hesitant, and unprepared. In the last blog, “Virtual Selling: The New Paradigm”, we discussed some best practices for selling online. This blog will focus more on conducting a virtual

Managers in the United States ranked meetings number one on their list of time wasters. Without an intentional commitment to creating a more effective meeting environment, this problem will continue to escalate as many organizations are letting employees remain in a remote capacity. In the last three blogs, we discussed “Pre-Meeting Strategies”, “Meeting Etiquette” and