Once or twice a year, there's a deliverable that presents a challenge to both managers and their employees: performance reviews. While many companies conduct annual reviews, some are adopting a more ...

You're in a team meeting where the quarterly targets are presented by your manager. Even though you and your team didn't hit targets the previous quarter, it seems that the targets for this quarter ...

Designing that kind of pause isn’t a delay. It’s a choice. And in a world where performance is measured in speed, it might ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Geri Johnson January 1 ...

The Harvard Business Review suggests personal or professional goals are famously hard to achieve. If the effort outweighs the perceived reward, we are tempted to give up on our targets. Also: 5 ways ...

When I worked on the shop floor, my supervisor asked if I wanted to spend time in production control developing a better way to improve workflow throughout the department. I wanted to move into ...

As a business leader, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is the value of setting clear, objective criteria for employee bonuses. Over the years, I’ve experimented with various bonus ...

Every December ushers in a season of frenzied goal setting. As the new year approaches, both companies and individuals vow to do better, get healthier, and achieve the truly audacious. Then comes ...

The concept of setting goals at the beginning of the year isn't new. In fact, human beings have marked the occasion by making resolutions for over 4,000 years, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.