Be sure to reflect before you react.

Here's how to get truly prepared for these important meetings, in mind and attitude. Remember the whole agenda is ultimately for the employee's benefit.

IES employment research is published in reports, papers and articles: find it all here.

Whether in business or sports, there is no doubt about the importance of results. When it comes to the question of how to accomplish them, our coaching needs to focus less on demanding and inspecting progress and more on strategies that bring about a commitment to explore our personal best.

High-achieving men and women are described differently in performance reviews.

Performance planning, coaching, and review are the foundation of any well-designed performance management system, but the results of a recent study suggest that leaders are falling short in meeting...

The Rubik’s cube recently reached its 40th birthday. Much like the puzzle, whereby trying to create order on one side of the cube causes disorder on another, HR teams often find themselves facing four paradoxes at the heart of a firm's HR processes. Fixing these could give a timely boost to employee performance in the next 12 months.