Upward Feedback: How to Give Your Boss Your Honest Opinion

When your boss asks the question, "What do you think?" the possibilities of how you can react are endless. You can:

What Should You Do When You Don't Accomplish Your Goals?

We spend a lot of time talking about goals. We debate how to set goals, manage goals, and celebrate the success of achieving our goals. Today, I want to talk about an aspect of goal setting that doesn't get as much discussion: What should you do when you don't reach your goals?

4 Tips for Identifying and Developing High-Performing Employees

Organizations want high-performing employees. They talk about it all the time. Managers will say that they want employees who "perform at a high level." Senior leaders will say the key to the company's success is being a " high-performing organization." But what exactly does that mean?

Career Planning: The Company's Role in Creating Employee Success

Have you helped someone plan their career today? There's no time like the present. Here's why: In a perfect world, we want employees to enjoy their chosen career. If they do, then it can translate to engagement, which ultimately has a positive impact on the business.

An Employee's Guide to Successful 1:1 Meetings with Your Manager

This will sound incredibly obvious but one-on-one meetings involve two people. This means that organizations need to spend equal time coaching both meeting participants. Now, it only makes sense to talk about how employees can make the most of the meeting.

5 Steps for Creating Organizational Talent Pools

Nearly two-thirds of business owners do not have a succession plan, according to an article by CNBC. There could be lots of reasons for this, but the big one that comes to mind is the laborious process of succession planning. This isn't to say that succession planning isn't important; it's just time-consuming.

How to Create an HR Department Budget

We're approaching that time of year. Yep, budget time.

3 Types of Goals You Should Set This Year

Editor's note: This article was originally published in 2014 but has been updated for 2020 and beyond. We hope you enjoy!

4 Ways to Develop High-Potential Employees into Subject Matter Experts

High-potential employees (HiPos) offer immense value to their organizations. So it's no wonder that organizations want more of them. If companies offer the proper development opportunities to these individuals, they can transform into key contributors for the organization – both in the short and long term. This is great for company performance and their succession plan.

Six Helpful Tips on How to Conduct a Performance Review Meeting

Performance reviews don't have to be a dreaded activity.

Succession Planning for Organizational Subject Matter Experts

There's absolutely nothing wrong with not being a manager.

How to Keep Your Talent Management & Business Goals Aligned

In business, we talk about alignment a lot. But what does alignment really mean? If you Google it, alignment is "arrangement in a straight line, or in correct or appropriate relative positions." So if we want to achieve alignment, we need to put processes in the correct order.