Structuring an effective check-in conversation for employee 1:1’s 30 July 2019 David-Perks Agile Performance Management (3) A regular employee check in is an opportunity to equip a team member with the resources and support they need to do their best work every day, but only if the conversation is well constructed to highlight their struggles and needs in psychological safety. [More]
An Agile HR approach to goal setting that accounts for short term tendency to overestimate and long term tendancy to underestimate 24 July 2019 David-Perks Agile Performance Management (0) Humans are good at underestimating the progress that can be made in the long term but overestimating progress that will be made in the short term.How do you set goals that will motivate short term achievement without setting people up to fail, whilst not being too lax so that long term progress is stymied?We think we have an approach that creates continuous striving to do better whilst still being psychologically safe by avoiding over-commitment, [More]
Best practice survey design probes one topic at a time; encouraging respondents to click "Next" 01 April 2019 David-Perks Product Announcements (0) When you have a lot of data to collect, this can be offputting and lead to low survey completion rates. Breaking your survey into sections, and providing a sense of progress can motivate your audience to respond to your survey in full rather than ignore or abandon it. Learn about survey design techniques that will increase your response rates. [More]
Agile KPI's for the modern workplace 26 February 2019 David-Perks Agile Performance Management, Product Announcements (0) The future of work looks different than in the past. Specifically, the speed of decisions, disruptive business models, use of remote workers and even the shift from permanent employees are factors that influence the way people must be provided with direction and held to account. Unlike conventional annual KPIs, agile KPIs change often, may not be cascaded from the corporation down through line managers, and may have diverse measurement not just dollars and counters. KPIs in the agile organisation have to be decentralised to keep pace. How can this be done whilst maintaining an overall view of performance across the orgnaisation? [More]
Are sterile goals preventing viral employee engagement? 10 September 2018 David-Perks Agile Performance Management (0) When it comes to inspiring people through goals, the old approach of setting SMART goals often misses the key to engaging staff with goals.If you align the persons life goals and strengths to the needs of the organisation, you end in a much better place of buy-in.Think of it as needs and strengths alignment, not goal alignment and you can take a SMARTER approach to your goal setting process. [More]