HR professionals adopted business software early on—software was used to process employee compensation as early as 1957.—and continue to be a huge consumer of software to this day. While we’ve talked about popular Talent Management software before, today, we’re... Continue Reading

We’re doing performance reviews all wrong. Rather than the typical let’s-have-a-tense-meeting-every-six-months (you know, the method that stresses out you, your employees, and gives very little meaningful data or actionable feedback), studies have shown that people prefer... Continue Reading

With gamification becoming a buzzword for every business department from training to project management, to the help desk, it should come as no surprise that performance management is also in the game designers’ sights. Especially when... Continue Reading

Oscar Wilde famously defined a cynic as, “A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Mr. Wilde, of course, never had to purchase performance appraisal software. If he had, perhaps he... Continue Reading

As companies become more agile and collaborative– with an increased focus on what an employee is doing *right now* versus a once-annual checklist of goals set 12 months ago– they need flexible and immediate ways to... Continue Reading

Cornerstone for Small Business (CSB) is Cornerstone OnDemand’s web-based software product dedicated to the sub-500 staff company (as opposed to Cornerstone’s Business Edition for larger enterprises). The CSB suite of products at the moment includes CSB... Continue Reading

Performance Management Software functionality differs from vendor to vendor. Some vendors use a “split screen” copy and paste functionality to help appraisors integrate record notes into the appraisee’s appraisal, and others promote the questionable benefits of “canned... Continue Reading

Arbitrary. Subjective. Unfounded. Do any of your employees use these words to describe your performance review process? Maybe they do and you just don’t know it – especially if you’re still using an antiquated review and... Continue Reading

Running a top tier company can be difficult, especially when you are competing against a number of other companies who are also offering the same products or services. So, what do you do when your company... Continue Reading

Staying on top of your team’s numbers in this nanosecond world need not be a significant time burner. The Internet has revolutionized communications and given us a just-in-time pull model – information is pulled as we... Continue Reading