Goals: Are goals the only way (or even the best way) to motivate high performance? Give way to alternatives on your journey to Agile Performance Management

Goal setting has been the de facto standard for motivating high performance. Consultants and traditionalists advocate SMART goals, and startups favour the variant of Objective and Key Results (OKR's) made famous by Google. What if you've found goals don't inspire your people, or you've found goals are the predominant cause of stress in your workplace? Are there alternatives to goals and how can people do their best work without goals? We propose 2 alternatives. [More]

Best practice survey design probes one topic at a time; encouraging respondents to click "Next"

When you have a lot of data to collect, this can be offputting and lead to low survey completion rates. Breaking your survey into sections, and providing a sense of progress can motivate your audience to respond to your survey in full rather than ignore or abandon it. Learn about survey design techniques that will increase your response rates. [More]