Sales performance goals are measures used to incentivize salespeople and determine achievement-based compensation. While there are many types of goals – from units sold to gross margin – it can be ...

Performance appraisal systems help employees know what's expected of them and management know whether or not workers are meeting their goals. These measuring sticks falter, however when they raise ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about management in its many forms. I recently did a piece on preparing for employee performance reviews (aka, the ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

Performance management appears to be most effective when it features consistent principles that employees understand, according to an Aug. 21 report from McKinsey & Co. In particular, approaches with ...

The June 17 memo from the Office of Personnel Management’s acting Director Charles Ezell, “Performance Management for Federal Employees”, reflects an important development for managing employee ...

If you’ve been falling short of some major goal, it might not be your effort or motivation; it could be that you’ve set the wrong kind of goal. There are two types of goals; performance goals and ...

The Professional Development Center (PDC) is here to assist staff members with learning how to use the required annual performance evaluation forms, as well as the optional performance goal check-in ...

Report from Jitinder Kohli sets out a federal government performance model based on an analysis of what works at five different governments on three continents. In sports, the goal is clear: win the ...

This month, The Joint Commission (TJC) will roll out its restructured National Performance Goals (NPGs) alongside Accreditation 360, a fundamentally different accreditation model focused on continuous ...