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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Performance Calibration vs. Talent Calibration: Do You Need Both?

What is the difference between performance calibration and talent calibration? Are they interchangeable, or do you need both? Let’s look at each of these distinct processes and examine why both are important means of successfully managing talent in your organization.
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

3 Expert Tricks to Identify Poor Performance Calibration

Performance ratings are an important part of how you manage talent at your company. The accuracy and usefulness of these ratings can be compromised, though, in cases of poor performance calibration. Your employees can also become distraught or even quit if they feel their performance reviews are unfair or inaccurate. How do you know you have an organizational problem with performance calibration? We’ll look at three signs to look for and explain how to move forward.
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PERFORMANCE CALIBRATION

6 Steps for Conducting Performance Calibration Meetings

A hardworking employee in one department receives a dismal performance review from a manager with unrealistically high standards, while a struggling employee in another department gets a glowing review from an overly optimistic supervisor. How can you avoid this scenario?
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Reasons for Leadership Derailment and 3 Ways to Address It

Great leaders help to drive organizations forward and nurture growth, development, and innovation—but what happens when a leader derails? Leadership derailment can have a negative ripple effect within a company, so organizations should take steps to confront this issue.
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Product Feature Spotlight - Performance Rating Calibration

viaPeople's Rating Calibration Feature Instantly Compares Performance Across Teams HR software should not only make things easier but also help you to improve your processes. viaPeople's team of Industrial Organizational Psychologists have designed the Performance Rating Calibration feature to ensure consistency and fairness in the evaluation of critical performance factors. Here is how it works:
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

5 Ways to Take the 'Creep' Out of Employee Performance Ratings

One of the countless complaints about performance reviews is that performance ratings are inaccurate. Whether an organization is using a traditional 5 point rating scale to evaluate performance criteria or a non-numeric determination of overall performance, the general trend is for the distribution of ratings to be positively skewed versus represent a normal bell curve.
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Calibrate, Don't Force in Employee Performance Management

What is Performance Calibration? Performance Calibration is a process in which managers (typically within a department or function) come together to discuss the performance of employees and achieve agreement on performance appraisal ratings. The process ensures:
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