John M. O'Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. When the job market turns into more of an employee's market, shortcuts ...

A performance-based assessment evaluates employees on their output vs. their expected contribution to a business, explains Tsuru Kotaro of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. These ...

In today’s workplace, leaders are being asked to support employee well-being on top of doing more with less. The tension between performance and people is real, and many organizations are feeling the ...

As a manager, employee performance and coaching conversations can be scary. In addition to providing constructive criticism and feedback (which is tough enough), you must also be prepared to provide ...

If there's a domain where college faculty could most stand to learn from K-12 educators, it is assessment. Too often, assessment is treated in postsecondary education as synonymous with grading: as a ...