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Mitratech Holdings, Inc

A Manager's Guide To Performance Review Comments

Performance reviews feel like a daunting task for managers and employees alike. Yet, they hold immense potential to foster growth and enhance workplace dynamics....more

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Evaluating Evaluations in the Manufacturing Workplace

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Like all employers, manufacturers tend to hold strong opinions about the use of performance reviews and evaluations in the workplace. Whether performance reviews make sense for a given manufacturer usually requires an...more

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How to Conduct Terrible Employee Evaluations: Your 5-Step Plan on What Not to Do

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If your workplace is anything like most others, your team probably dreads the annual performance review process. Employees don’t like receiving reviews and managers don’t like conducting them. In fact, only 26% of North...more

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Michigan Governor Whitmer Signs into Law Major K-12 Teacher Performance Evaluations Reforms

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On November 22, 2023, Michigan Governor Gretchen E. Whitmer signed into law two bills (SB 395 & SB 396) reforming the teacher and school administrator evaluation processes at K-12 schools. The new legislation introduces...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

How to Determine the ROI of the Performance Review Process

The annual performance review: It’s a process that has been around for decades, but many companies are moving reviews online, shifting focus to shorter review cycles, and trying to get more out of their time. But how can you...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Navigating Difficult Conversations in Performance Reviews: Tips for HR Leaders

Performance reviews are a crucial part of any organization’s growth and success. They provide an opportunity to assess employee performance, set goals, and offer constructive feedback. However, not all conversations during...more

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Performance Evaluations as Talk Therapy

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If 20% of Americans currently live with mental illness as the National Institute of Mental Health reports, and 60% of American adults are working as the Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us, then managing mental health and...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Performance Evaluations: Training Managers Is Key

Employee performance is always rated in one manner or another. Best practice is to rate this performance through known, objective processes. In the context of the employment relationship, performance evaluations are an...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

SuperVision - Labor and Employment Law Insights, Issue 2, June 2023

Considerations for Employing AI in the Workplace - What is workplace artificial intelligence or AI? In its simplest form, AI in the workplace is the use of technology or software to monitor employees’ work performance,...more

Troutman Pepper

Making Sandwiches and Managing Employees: Hulu’s The Bear - Hiring to Firing Podcast

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Sometimes it’s not what you say, but how you say it. What’s the best approach to managing and getting the most out of your employees? Are there gender and generational challenges to administering performance management...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Write SMART Employee Review Goals For The Performance Appraisal

Most organizations have some sort of performance appraisal system in place to evaluate decisions related to promotions, salary hikes and professional development. To execute that, a set of expectations is established against...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

The Complete Guide To Employee Check-Ins

Running employee check-ins (also known as one-on-one meetings, progress meetings, appraisals, reviews, catch-ups, sit-downs, and so much more, depending on the organization) is something all good managers and leaders should...more

Venable LLP

Best Practices for Handling and Documenting a Non-Performing Employee

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Addressing an employee's failure to meet performance expectations can be challenging for an employer. This article highlights best practices for handling and documenting a non-performing employee....more

Baker Donelson

Making a List, and Checking it Twice: The Importance of Accurate and Complete Employee Evaluations

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For many companies, year-end and/or shortly after the new year is a time set aside on the corporate calendar for annual evaluations. Employee evaluations should not only put employees on notice of performance problems and...more

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Don’t Be Left Out In The Cold on Effective Performance Reviews: Five Tips You Need To Know

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Tis the season for employee performance reviews! In the midst of the chaos that is the holiday season and end-of-year deadlines, employee performance reviews are often scheduled during this busy time of the year. An impending...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Above-Average Performance Reviews Counter Employer's Grounds for Termination

​​​​​​​“Grade inflation” is a well-known phenomenon in the academic sphere, where grade-point averages creep up over time despite the lack of performance-based reasons for the increase. Grade inflation can also be an issue...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

How Should Employers Address Refusal to Sign Disciplinary Warning?

Recently we had an employer ask about how to react to an employee who adamantly refused to sign its standard disciplinary warning form. The employee had been counseled regarding deteriorating work performance but took issue...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Demote an Employee After a Positive Performance Review? Federal Appeals Court Says Not So Fast

Although it seems counterintuitive, we regularly run across situations where clients want to fire or demote an employee who recently received a promotion, stellar performance review, or some other kind of reward for good...more

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Evaluation Notices Due to Teachers

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Section 50.100 of the ISBE teacher evaluation regulations requires that teachers who are to be evaluated during the upcoming school term be notified that they will be evaluated and provided with certain information regarding...more

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Ohio Department of Education issues guidance on teacher evaluations conducted during COVID-19 and beyond

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To evaluate or not to evaluate? This is the question many school districts are considering in the midst of COVID-19. On April 9, 2020, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) issued guidance addressing frequently asked...more

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Dispensing with evaluations of teachers and administrators under H.B. 197: Are the benefits worth the legal risks?

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On March 27, 2020, Governor DeWine signed Am.Sub.H.B. 197 into law. This legislation makes it permissible for a board of education to elect to not finish teacher and administrator evaluations that were not already completed...more

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The Value of a Good Performance Review

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Getting supervisors and managers to prepare detailed and thorough performance reviews is like getting kids to eat their vegetables. They don’t want to do it, and they’ll look for excuses to avoid it. But just as good parents...more

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Are Performance Improvement Plans the Best Practice?

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Categories: Employment, Article I often get asked – what is the best way to terminate an employee? Often, the discussion centers around whether the employer should issue a written warning and/or performance improvement plan...more

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Performance Counseling and Mediation Session Not Considered Adverse Employment Actions Under Title VII

Employees cannot sue under federal anti-discrimination laws for every perceived slight or workplace occurrence. In order to be actionable, the alleged employer conduct must rise to the level of an “adverse employment action.”...more

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Third Circuit Permits Terminated Employee to Present Broad Comparisons to Others

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The Third Circuit’s recent decision in Andujar v. General Nutrition Corporation (GNC) should remind employers that termination of an employee based on poor performance should result from clear policies, and that personalized...more

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