Performance Software Innovations Shaping 2023
Table of ContentsRev up employee performance and engagement with Betterworks’ 2022 innovationsInnovation #1: Microsoft and Google Workspace integrationsPerformance happens every day, now you can take advantage of it!Innovation #2: Betterworks’ LinkedIn Learning...
How Integrating Learning and Performance Helps Retain and Future-Proof Your Workforce
Among many challenges that HR Leaders face today, developing and retaining leaders and talent while prioritizing performance results is particularly difficult. Leader and manager effectiveness is the top priority of 60% of HR leaders according to Gartner. Yet, 24% say...
Betterworks Wins 3 Comparably “Best Places to Work” Awards
Betterworks, the leader in modern performance management software, was selected for three out of four 2022 Comparably Workplace Culture Awards, making the top lists for “Happiest Employees,” “Best Companies for Compensation,” and “Best Companies for Work-Life...
Simplify Everyday Performance With Betterworks’ Microsoft Integrations
Integrations with Outlook, Teams, and Excel simplify performance enablement and automatically update goal progress.
Corporate Leaders, PGA Tour Winners, and HR Luminaries Highlight Make Work Better Summit
Betterworks recently announced its speaker lineup for the company’s first-ever one-day virtual Make Work Better Summit on Oct. 19. Headlining the event are Ryan Estis, keynote speaker and former Chief Strategy Officer of a Fortune 500 Company, recent PGA TOUR winner...
Betterworks Promotes Employee Performance in the Flow of Work With New Frictionless Integrations With Office 365 and G Suite Apps
Betterworks, a leader in modern performance management solutions, today announced integrations with multiple Office 365 and G Suite applications that allow employees to quickly and easily manage their performance from the applications they use every day. Plug-ins for...
Four Ways to Help Your Team Build Their Operational Muscle
Four ways to weave accountability into everyday work.
Life as a Betterworks product marketing intern
A perspective on the value of a meaningful internship.
Betterworks Wins 2 Comparably Awards for Top 100 Companies
Betterworks makes the Top 100 list for “Best Leadership Team” and “Best Company for Career Growth.”
Betterworks Profiles in Pride: Marilyn Hollinger
Marilyn Hollinger share why it’s important for companies to support Pride activities.
Performance Management Goal Setting: Examples and Best Practices
Explore performance management goal setting with examples and best practices to boost engagement and productivity.
How Your Culture Can Drive Business Results
Betterworks COO Andrea Lagan explains the connections between a healthy workplace culture and business performance.
How Integrated Talent Management Solutions Connect Your Talent Marketplace
An integrated talent management system supports an agile talent strategy, long-term talent flexibility, and improved workforce capabilities.
Why Is Corporate Goal Setting So Important?
Delve into the value of goal setting for your business, best practices, and goal-setting examples.
10 Mistakes Made During Employee Onboarding
Onboarding is trickier than ever with hybrid and remote work. Here are 10 common mistakes and how to fix them.
Performance Management Process: Tips for Increasing Adoption
Follow these tips to ensure that your transition to a modern performance management system is a success.
How to Align Employees with Company Values
It can be challenging to help employees feel connected to your company’s goals. Learn how to align employees with company goals and values.
Finding Success as a First Time Manager
How to prepare for leadership, 12 tips, and 6 resources.
Equity Through Diversity and Inclusion Goal Setting
Want to set achievable DEIB goals? Take these 5 steps.
AI in HR – Does it Hold the Key to Success?
How HR can leverage AI to increase its effectiveness with talent recruitment, employee surveys, L&D, and performance management.
Announcing The Betterworks Performance Enablement Coach Certification
Get the tools, resources, and best practices you need as an HR pro to drive a culture of continuous performance enablement.
The Evolution of Performance Management
Performance management has gone through many iterations since it was first developed in the Industrial Revolution. Take a quick tour through its evolution.
How Can You Develop and Build a High-Performing Culture?
Find out how Colgate-Palmolive used modern performance management to develop a high-performing culture
AI in HR: Benefits, Examples, and Trends for 2025
Explore how AI in HR is shifting from an assistant to a strategic co-pilot, enabling better performance, skill development, and engagement.
#HRTechChat: It’s Time for Performance Enablement
Performance enablement processes are designed to support managers and employees, and to dynamically elevate the HR experience.
Is The Great Resignation the secret sauce for amazing company culture?
The Great Resignation is an opportunity to flip the script to transform company culture by listening and learning from employees.
Implementing a Modern Performance Management System
Modern performance management puts people at the center. Here’s how to roll out this model at your company.
It’s Time to Stop Trying to Manage Performance
Shifting to a “cultivation mindset” is a critical step in moving from performance management to performance enablement.
What is agile transformation?
Implementing agile principles across your organization leads to continuous improvement and better business outcomes.
Josh Bersin’s Tips for Winning the Talent War
If you want to win the war for talent, focus on internal skill-building, employee well-being, and employee experience.
What is Agile Performance Management?
The smart money is on agile performance management, which enables employees to meet rapidly evolving business needs.
The Top 5 Mistakes Executives Make When Running an OKR Program
Rolling out an OKR program is no small feat. Don’t let your efforts be derailed by these five common mistakes.
Measure What Really Matters: The DEIB Journey
Two DEI&B leaders share their insights on how to move the needle on DEI&B at your company.
Be a Leader at All Levels: A Conversation with Indra Nooyi
How you can think like a leader and foster the next generation of successors.
What is corporate planning?
Learn the types and stages of corporate planning, and the elements of a successful plan.
EmpowerHR Has Come and Gone – But These Learnings are Here to Stay
DEI, L&D, leadership, women in the workplace, and the nature of performance in a hybrid work environment. It’s all here.
How to Manage Based on Outcomes, Not Scheduled Work Hours
Discover how to empower your managers and employees to deliver better outcomes with results-based management.
OKRs for the HR Business Partner: Focus on People to Win Internal Buy-in
By setting OKRs aligned to business priorities, HR can take the lead in driving better performance across the organization.
Five Questions Executives Should Ask When Launching OKRs
Tailor your OKR program to your company needs. Start off on the right foot by asking these essential questions.
How to Create a Truly Agile Organization
Tap into the power and potential of your people to build a truly agile organization.
Scaling Your Startup: Enabling Performance After Funding
Part of scaling strategically as a startup requires being strategic with your processes, including performance management.
What is agility in business?
Build business agility with continuous performance management.
Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace
The difference between mentoring and coaching – and why you need both.
How to Create OKRs for Personal Development
OKRs for learning and development can foster engagement while also helping meet strategic business goals.
OKRs Worldwide. Does Culture Affect Implementation?
How country culture, local culture within global companies, and market challenges affect OKR implementations in multinational companies.
Reducing Bias in Performance Management
Bias is a flaw of many traditional performance management systems, but you can reduce bias by following these best practices
How to Use Strategic Alignment to Harness Your Company’s Full Power
The magic happens when you align organizational strategy with individual priorities and proivide clear direction on OKRs.
Business Resilience vs. Business Continuity: 5 Ways to Prepare Your Workforce to Pivot Quickly
Prioritize business resilience over business continuity, alone, to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing world.
5 Best Practices for Employee Retention
Four of the five best practices for retention center around performance enablement and learning and development.
Onboarding Remote Employees – 7 Ways to Set Them Up for Success
These seven activities will streamline onboarding and deliver a great experience for remote and hybrid employees.
Employee Recognition Ideas to Drive Better Goal Alignment
Employee recognition is a key success driver. Here are some ideas for fueling it in your orgnizatiuons.
Updating Talent Strategy for Hybrid Work
Everything from recruiting to talent management must be remade. Consider these five factors as you adapt your talent strategy.
The Hybrid Work Model of The Future
Employees today demand greater flexibility and autonomy.. Are you adopting a model that’s collaborative and enables performance?
How Goal Alignment Drives Results for Your Organization
Take these three steps to implement goal alignment in your organization’s performance management system.
How to Nurture High-Performance Teams
Seven charatericstics of a high-performing team and how to build it.
Gaining Strategic Agility Through OKRs
Companies that master OKRs see a greater sense of alignment, ownership, autonomy, and engagement in teams and individuals.
Key Skills for Hybrid Workers
Learn the key skills to efficiently meet your goals and successfully collaborate with your teams in a hybrid work environment.
How Technology is Helping Find and Retain Hotel Talent
How some hoteliers are investing in technology, including modern performance management, to mange goals and improve retention.
The New Role of Learning & Development
How transformative CLOs are delivering business performance and ROI through skill-building and using OKRs in L&D.
How to Leverage Workforce Analytics for Your Business
A primer on workforce analytics, which includes aspects like work-life balance, employee engagement and happiness, and personal fulfillment.
Betterworks and Udemy Enable Learning + Better Business Results
Integration with Udemy ties L&D to business outcomes to foster a culture of openness, alignment, and innovation.
Measuring Performance in a Hybrid Workplace
Why companies need to adjust their performance management practices to ensure effectiveness, sustainability, and agility.
Four Best Practices for Managers to Ensure OKR Program Success
Setting priorities, monitoring progress, having frequent check-ins, and providing feedback and recogntion are the keys to manager success.
Company Values: Do They Reflect the Reality of Your Work?
Learn about Betterworks’ core company values that fuel our culture and day-to-day work.
HR’s Role in Goal-Setting and Strategy Execution
How HR can elevate performance management by getting involved in the front-end planning.
5 Best Practices for Employee Recognition
How to use recognition to increase morale, motivation, productivity, retention, and engagement.
Get Certified to Drive Alignment and Connection with OKRs
Learn the benefits of becoming an expert in OKRs.
Understanding the Stressors That Impact Your Work Life
The ways in which stress harms performance and how to counteract with mindfulness.
4 Ways to Maximize the Business Impact of OKRs
Betterworks customer, Posadas, shares how promote the success of your OKR program.
5 Ways to Measure the Signal Strength of Great Key Results
How conversations, feedback, and recognition (CFRs) have become even more important for a post-pandemic workforce.
How to Adjust Your CFRs for a Post-COVID-19 World
Conversations, Feedback and Recognition (CFRs) are a core building block to an effective OKR (Objective and Key Result) solution. As a quick reminder, in Measure What Matters John Doerr defines CFR as follows: Conversations: an authentic, richly textured exchange...
It’s Time to Transform Calibration: Data In, Conscious & Unconscious Bias Out
Set strong key results (KRs) for your objectives using these five measures..
Three Best Practices for Maintaining OKR Alignment
To align OKRs, measure connectivity, surface information cross-functioanlly, and communicate change.
Transcript of Highlights from our LIVE Q&A with John Doerr and Doug Dennerline
The ways OKRs and CFRs enable businesses to survive during an economic downturn and thrive during recovery.
Managing Employees in a Post-COVID-19 World
How to help managers successfully manage hybrid/remote employees and maintain alignment and engagement.
Enterprise Agility in a Post-COVID-19 World
How OKRs lead to more effective strategy setting and execution process, aligning processes and projects to strategy.
How Leaders Demonstrate Accountability
To drive accountability, alignment, and focus — all required for OKRs — you need governance and sound processes.
OKR Lab Mailbag: Top OKR Questions, Answered
Key questions about how to do OKRs are answered.
Autonomy and Structure with OKRs
How one company uses OKRs to enable autonomy in a self-managed organization.
How 23andMe Reinstituted OKRs to Power its Current Phase of Growth
How one biotech startup uses OKRs to drive focus and innovation.
Learning Faster With OKRs
Using stretch goals in OKRs can promote innovation and make failure more acceptable.
OKR: Definition and Examples of John Doerr’s Goal-Setting System
A primer on OKRs, including the various types.
OKR Examples and How to Write Them
Learn the formula for writing effective OKRs.
Betterworks Thrice Honored at the Winter 2020 G2 Awards
Betterworks wins three awards for performance management by G2.
5 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Company Culture
These 5 approaches will improve employee experience and company culture.
The 3 Keys to Successfully Transitioning Your Organization to a Continuous Performance Process
Find out how to start making the transition to continuous performance management.
Betterworks Research Confirms: Managers Feel Talent Management “Needs Improvement”
Managers sound the alarm about what’s lacking in their organizations.
Introduction to Top Company Objectives for OKRs
Understand the different approaches to creating company objectives, with examples provided.
Driving Better Results with OKRs: A Q&A with Auth0’s Ari Schapiro
Find out how one rapidly growing business uses Betterworks to manage growth, complexity, and strategic alignment.
Josh Bersin: Performance Management is Heating Up
Learn about the impact of purpose-built software on continuous performance management.
How to Solve the Manufacturing Industry’s HR Problems
As the old saying goes, knowing is half the battle. To that point, while we previously discussed the challenges facing the manufacturing industry with respect to HR and human capital, understanding those underlying challenges is an important but, ultimately, single...
Using Company Values to Set Goals
Reinforcing company values with strong goals makes them much more effective and motivating for employees.
3 Golden Rules for Establishing Company Values
How company values serve as a North Star for guiding behaviors and decisions.
Setting Work Goals? Pay Attention to These 3 Cultural Clues
Learn about the cultural attributes that support the accomplishment of OKRs.
How AI in People Analytics Is Transforming HR
Table of ContentsUse of artificial intelligence in HR is trending up8 benefits of AI in HRBecome a tactical and strategic assetReduce human biasImprove relationships between employeesImprove efficiency and insight in candidate assessmentSupercharge strategic...
5 Ways to Develop a Strong Company Culture
People-first values, feedback, transparency, work-life integration, recognition, and reward are the elements of a solid company culture.
Managing Employees Who Work from Home
Here are a few things to keep in mind when managing a work-from-home staff.
Effective Communication Tips for Managers
Learn ways to build better communications, listening skills, and trust as a manager.