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, ...

Once or twice a year, there's a deliverable that presents a challenge to both managers and their employees: performance reviews. While many companies conduct annual reviews, some are adopting a more ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Most organizations have some sort of performance appraisal system in place to evaluate decisions related to promotions, salary hikes and professional development. To execute that, a set of ...

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 ...

As an executive, you are not only responsible for meeting your own goals, but for helping your staff meet theirs. While goals can be casual, many prefer to state them formally and work toward them as ...

Setting good business goals is easy. Implementing a plan to get your employees working towards actually reaching those goals is a completely different story. It can be one of the most challenging ...

Although roughly 60%-70% of individuals in the U.S. start off the year with New Year's resolutions, we're probably reaching the point in the year when sticking to them is becoming harder and harder.