Beyond the Annual Review: The Transformative State of Performance Conversations

How do you ensure employees bring value to a company? And how do you ensure they feel valued? Strategically addressing these questions is the basis for improving performance.
For decades, HR departments relied on annual reviews to gauge and communicate employee performance. But this traditional approach to evaluating employees is antiquated. The annual performance review is a history report; it only looks backward to evaluate past performance and doesn’t do enough to look forward and motivate employees to improve.