According to one recent study, about 71 percent of all executives say that employee engagement—and the performance boosts that occur as a result—are “critical” to the success of their companies. Research has long indicated that happy, engaged employees tend...

Whatever happened to the human aspect of human performance? Over time, businesses have abandoned the practice of encouraging human connection in the workplace. It’s time we break free from the impersonal, robotic-like business models and embrace a more humanizing...

In many businesses, performance is boiled down to a behavior-based or competency-based job description that provides information for Human Resources but does not help managers ensure exemplary performance on the job. The job description often isn’t accurate for what...

An insurance company engaged Radcom for a career path design project. The company was seeing an increase in resignations because employees weren’t seeing a path for their career growth within the company. Upon further analysis, they determined that creating...

The Background Radcom was approached by a growing municipality with union workers. The city recognized it needed to add classifications for its employees in order to differentiate performance and skill levels, as well as pay structure. Because of this,...

Performance improvement uses a systematic approach—known as performance analysis—to uncover those issues within an organization that cause performance problems. Performance problems occur when work fails to meet minimum requirements for success. Once performance problems are identified, the interventions necessary...

The “Great Resignation” is making an impact on businesses across the country and around the globe. It’s a phenomenon that describes record numbers of people leaving their jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic, often with no prospects lined up. In...

Whenever you are attempting to teach someone something or even just getting them to remember it, interactivity is important because humans learn by doing. However, we only learn if we are doing the right things. After all, I can...

It happens to the best of us: you want to use a word but suddenly realize you aren’t quite sure what the word really means. I mean, you do, but DO you? If you aren’t sure whether you are...

Employees value an employer who invests in their career growth, according to a recent LinkedIn Learning report. Employees are more likely to leave if they don’t see a clear career path they can use to move forward within your...