Employee Engagement Blogs

Read our employee engagement blog to get useful management tips, articles and thought leadership ideas for you and your managers.

Leadership skills beat Massive Monday

So you made it through Massive Monday – the day when more people consider a job change or a relationship split than any other day of the year.  Searching for…

New Year’s Revolution – make the annual review better!

As you may remember from Douglas Adams’ masterpiece “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, the book of that name was a best-seller largely because it had the words “Don’t Panic”…

2013 Performance Review Survey

2013 Annual Performance Review Survey

It’s that time of year again when 100,000s  of hr directors, managers and staff get ready to start their annual appraisal process… We decided it would be a cool idea…

How WeThrive prevents performance review mistakes – 4

Fourth in the list of big performance review mistakes, according to Eric Jackson on Forbes.com, is lack of preparation – doing appraisal meetings “on the fly.”  Eric says he “knew…

Is conscious business doomed? Quite the opposite…

One of the WeThrive team was at the Meaning Conference in Brighton last week – a Conscious Business event full of people who want to make business more meaningful and…

Will your performance review software see trouble coming?

Too much of a good thing? Will your performance review software find it?

Can you have too much of a good thing?  That’s the question being asked in the employee engagement group on LinkedIn just now.  It’s an intriguing question, because employee engagement…

WeThrive prevents performance review mistakes

How WeThrive prevents performance review mistakes – 3

Number 3 in that Forbes list of performance review mistakes is the recency effect.  Last in, first out, in other words.  We humans tend to let the most recent event, especially if it’s a…

How WeThrive prevents performance appraisal process mistakes

Number 2 in Eric Jackson’s top ten list of performance appraisal process mistakes on Forbes is: everything’s perfect – until it’s not and you’re fired.  The unfortunate employee carries on doing…

How WeThrive prevents performance review mistakes

There’s a great post by Eric Jackson on Forbes about why performance reviews cause aggravation, suggesting “ten ways you can ensure your next performance with your reports will be a…

Performance review software - how to get the best results

How to get the full benefits of your HR or Performance Review Software

Before we start, we are not an HR software or performance review software. OK so what are you? In a nutshell WeThrive sets goals using behavioural psychology to unlock the…

Performance review failures - Top 10 Reasons

Performance Review Failures Top 10 – FORBES

Great post from Forbes on the 10 reasons a performance review can fail here are the first few paragraphs… well worth a read; “In the world of organizational life, there’s no…

Goal setting online makes performance improvement pains better

Goal Setting online makes performance improvement plans better

With WeThrive you can uncover the best development goals for your staff, without needing to hold meetings or do any kind of paperwork.   It’s an online service that diagnoses…