Communicating about performance is always important, but has never been more critical than in the current economic downturn. Our customer Convenience Food Systems has been using their online performance management system to help ease them through these difficult times, with a focus on goal management and ongoing performance feedback. This process ensures that CFS employees understand how they are contributing to the organization in spite of economic cycles.

Next week on Thursday April 16th at 2:00 p.m. EDT, Scott Mottern, Regional HR Manager at CFS will be leading a webcast where he’ll share:

• Lessons learned in implementing an employee performance management system at two organizations to mend a broken process and reduce HR headaches,
• How he has used performance management data as the basis for other talent management practices such as succession and pay for performance initiatives,
• The crucial role this has played in aligning goals, improving employee engagement, unifying a fragmented corporate culture with a renewed focus on performance, and
• More recently, bringing a sense of security to employees via ongoing feedback in challenging economic times.

If you are interested, you can register for the webinar here. I’ll be sharing some of Scott’s lessons learned in a post in the next couple weeks too.