CoAdvantage- Do you have an employee who’s just not meeting expectations or minimally accepted performance standards. You’ve already invested time, money, and resources into recruiting, onboarding, training, and supporting this worker. What do you do to manage their underperformance? Thankfully, under-performance can often be fixed with the right approach. 1: Find the root cause The
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CoAdvantage-Employee engagement is indisputably an important metric for employers to monitor. Study after study has found that organizations with highly engaged employees outperform those without (by 202%, according to one study). As former General Electric CEO Jack Welch has said, “No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who
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CoAdvantage-What’s the best way to manage employee performance? Answers to this question seem to fall in and out of favor with the seasons. The traditional approach of high-stakes annual performance reviews has been diminishing in popularity at major employers for a long time, but what are the alternative options available? One word of warning: no
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CoAdvantage- Although an eight-hour workday and 40-hour workweek have become the de facto standard in the United States, few employees actually devote that much time to their work. According to one recent report, over half (53%) of people say they spend at least one hour of the workday browsing social media and 60% say they’ve
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