Aligning employee focus with organizational goals and objectives is more relevant today than ever before. Historically, for most employers, workforce locations were fairly stable and predictable. Employees worked with colleagues in office buildings and/or at job sites. In recent years, telecommuting, distance and remote working gained popularity within many industry sectors. Unexpected global events in 2020 rocked the workplace paradigm, employees who drove to a central location to work and returned home at the end of the business day now have a new ‘normal’. Now, if and when possible, employees who can, work remotely to preserve their health and the health of their coworkers. How long with this new normal last? No one knows for sure, however, studies conducted on employer and workplace trends long before 2021 showed a steady growth in a remote workforce.

How do managers, on a wide scale, establish objectives, conduct employee appraisals to get key results that are essential to maximizing success, while not in the same workplace on a daily basis? This presentation will provide ideas, tips and tools to make it easier to master remote employee performance appraisals. You will learn about employee management approaches designed to effectively facilitate performance, engage employees and cultivate positive organizational cultures. And be introduced to appraisal strategies to guide and manage cohesive employee teams in office or out. Discover ways to communicate sufficiently so employees understand and know their work product and contributions matter.

What You Will Learn

• Ideas, tips and tools to make it easier to master remote performance conversations and appraisals 
• Employee management approaches designed to effectively facilitate performance, engage employees and cultivate positive organizational cultures regardless of their worksite
• Appraisal strategies to guide and manage cohesive employee teams
• Ways to communicate sufficiently so employees understand and know their work product and contributions matter
• Demo of LightWork Software Performance Management solution

What is LightWork Performance Management?

LightWork Performance Management (formerly Talent Management) is a dynamic talent management system designed to help you identify strengths and areas for improvement in employee performance and set goals for employee and company success. Web-based with familiar Microsoft Windows navigation, LightWork integrates with all HR systems with the tightest integration to Sage HRMS.

​LightWork Performance Management transforms the overwhelming task of managing employees into an indispensable business strategy. With LightWork, it’s easy to identify strengths and areas for improvement in your workforce and align employees and groups with goals to optimize your company for success. Its flexibility and intuitive interface contains easily modified appraisals and criteria templates to help you provide valuable feedback to your employees in a thoughtful and efficient way. If you already have something in mind, templates can also be created from scratch.