Key Insights:• Hybrid work offers flexibility, but it makes it harder for leaders to manage employees’ performance.• Neuroscience offers best practices for structuring feedback conversations and setting expectations around goals.• Normally a scary aspect of work, performance management done well can be highly rewarding.
Nearly four years since the pandemic, many organizations are still adapting to the world of hybrid work. While it offers more flexibility, leaders are struggling to manage people’s performance since they can’t just check in on them down the hall.
So, how do you do performance management in a hybrid world? Research suggests that brain-friendly organizations tend to adopt a similar set of priorities and skills. And when people do slip up, those same practices can help get performance back on track.
Below, we’ve selected our top articles from 2024 on performance management to help every leader maximize their employees’ potential.
Must-reads
The Essentials: Performance Management
Getting performance management right requires an understanding of multiple concepts and skills, including feedback, growth mindset, and threat and reward. Dive into each through curated webinars, articles, and blog posts.
Performance Management in the New World of Work
Hybrid work, accountability issues, and constant change have made performance management more challenging than ever. To adapt, leaders should practice three habits: creating a culture of feedback, focusing on outcomes not surveillance, and building flexible systems.
Use This 3-Step Approach to Give Better Negative Feedback Few people enjoy feedback. Most of us dread it. But by following a science-backed process, colleagues can give one another feedback in a way that keeps the other person in the right mindset to hear and use it.
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