100 Year-Old Marine Engineering Company Selects emPerform to Support Talent Growth Strategy
Announcements + Updates August 27, 2012 0

100 Year-Old Marine Engineering Company Selects emPerform to Support Talent Growth Strategy

J.F. Brennan Company Inc. is a 100 year-old marine construction and environmental remediation company that provides high-quality services to engineering, utility, railroad, paper mill, government, municipality, and harbor entities located throughout the inland waterways of the United States. J.F. Brennan has recently selected CRG emPerform to help monitor the performance and development of their specialized and expanding workforce.

We caught up with their Director of Human Resources, Bob Brague, and asked him a few questions: Read More

Accelerate Employee Reviews with emPerform
Performance Reviews August 22, 2012 0

Accelerate Employee Reviews with emPerform

accelerateShift gears and start accelerating your review processes.

The days of tracking down reviews and sorting through files and spreadsheets are over! emPerform serves up powerful and proven performance management software to automate reviews and take your organization’s talent strategy to the next level.

Get appraisals completed properly and on-time with emPerform: unlimited online appraisal forms, email & task reminders, real-time status reports & dashboards, writing assistance tools, industry-leading reporting & metrics, custom rating scales & workflows, content libraries, SMART goal management, and year-round social feedback and journaling!

emPerform is the best value in online performance management software – Guaranteed and comes standard with more than just appraisal forms. For less than what most vendors charge for a single module, emPerform delivers the tools needed for a winning performance management strategy; including tools for managers, cost-saving benefits for executives, and of course, automated and easy-to-use tools for HR:

  • succession planning & the nine-box
  • 360 peer reviews
  • easy pay-for-performance
  • integration with HRIS & payroll
  • multi-lingual capabilities
  • + training is included

Contact us to see how easy it can be to start accelerating employee reviews.

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“With emPerform, employees are much more involved in their appraisal and our management team can focus on monitoring and improving our employees’ development towards their goals.” Ashley Hinge, Training and Development Manager – Toyota Financial Services

Upcoming Webinar – The Top 10 Talent Management Mistakes (and how to avoid them)
Other Blogs... August 16, 2012 0

Upcoming Webinar – The Top 10 Talent Management Mistakes (and how to avoid them)

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Upcoming Webinar: The Top 10 Talent Management Mistakes (and how to avoid them).

Date: Wednesday, Sept 19, 2012
Time: 1:00PM EDT – 2:00PM EDT

Click here to Register.

As companies invest more time and resources in talent management they expect meaningful returns on that investment. Yet surveys of executives and talent management leaders find that the fundamental processes for growing and managing leaders aren’t delivering their promised results.

marc effronWe know that talent management practices work if they’re implemented, so what’s getting in the way?

Join Marc Effron, author of One Page Talent Management and a leading voice in human resources effectiveness, to learn what isn’t working in talent management and how to fix it. Marc will offer practical solutions that you can quickly implement in your organization

What You Will Learn:

  • Top 10 reasons why talent management practices fail in many organizations.
  • Things that you can do to immediately increase the effectiveness of your company’s talent practices.
  • The skills needed to create effective talent management practitioners.

Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, Sept 19th, 2012
Time: 1PM EDT – 2PM EDT

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This webinar has passed and is available for viewing here: https://employee-performance.com/top-10-mistakes-in-talent-management

Accelerating Star Performance: Getting More Out of Employees Who Already Excel
Performance Reviews August 15, 2012 0

Accelerating Star Performance: Getting More Out of Employees Who Already Excel

check engine If most managers had to choose between reviewing a struggling employee and an employee who excels, they would choose the high achieving employee ten times out of ten. An excellent employee review is a positive experience for everyone involved, and even if the employee blushes a little, everyone usually leaves the room with good memories, stronger relationships, and an elevated feeling of morale.

But the excellent review comes not without its own set of challenges. After too much unadulterated applause, even the strongest willed among us sometimes experience a natural tendency to strut. And with a well justified strut sometimes comes a (usually temporary) period of relaxation, or a reduced interest in pushing hard to make it to the next level. This is especially true when there is no next level. If your company is small and salary raises have a natural cap, or if there’s no immediate higher-level in-house position available, how might an excellent employee respond after a positive review? How do you ensure that your excellent talent is able to maintain the momentum and maybe even leap into turbo without setting off their ‘check engine’ lights?

To keep great employees from leaving or ceasing the steady push that brought them where they are today, try these tips. Read More