Depending on how your organization chooses to define them, key performance objectives are often used to refer to outcomes for your team, or measurements that determine how well they’re performing. Sometimes, this phrase is used interchangeably to refer to OKR goals, but here we’ll clarify the
By Jessica Leauanae, Learning Program Manager at Workfront | Adapted from the Leap Dallas 2019 Presentation: "Who Do You Serve? How Good Leaders Align Stakeholder Interest"
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A year ago I participated in my first-ever bicycle tour — the Tour De Provo Peloton. It was a 90-day race to see how
By Jordan Staples, Director of Modern Work Enablement at Workfront
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History was made on May 5th, 1973, the 99th running of the Kentucky Derby. Secretariat’s chances of winning were in doubt, coming off a third-place finish two weeks earlier at the Wood Memorial Stakes.
Thirteen horses burst
You know about the advantages of having a strong continuous performance management system—it helps align and track measurable goals, creates an ongoing feedback loop for coaching, and boosts engagement through recognition—but are there any disadvantages to not having ongoing performance management?
We spoke to Rose Hayes, VP of Program Management at JLL, at Leap 2019 — both on stage and behind the scenes. This piece presents key lessons in work management from those conversations.
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As VP of Program Management at the real estate company JLL, Rose Hayes has worked all over the world. “I’ve
By Scott Lee, VP of Product Marketing, and Jon Ogden, Senior Manager of Content Marketing
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There’s a shift underway in how enterprises operate.
Just look at four basic elements of operations:
In many organizations today, leadership functions
Nowadays, many organizations have figured out the secret to modern performance management. Between setting clear goals, creating an ongoing feedback loop between leaders and their teams, and offering development opportunities, companies can take a robust approach to performance management and
A Message From Alex Shootman, CEO at Workfront — Adapted From His Presentation at Leap.
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On August 15, 2013, I received one of my most important lessons on the meaning of work, a lesson learned on a dirt road near Wolaita Sodo in the Southern Ethiopia. It had taken almost three hours to drive
By John Schefer, Account Executive at Workfront
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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” said one of the most influential management consultants of all time, Peter Drucker. Or at least Mark Fields said he said it. This was 2006, before Fields went on to become chief executive of Ford motor
Performance management is a process that organizations use to align their knowledge workers and resources to strategic objectives and priorities in order to ensure that your company’s short-term objectives and long-term goals are consistently met in an effective and efficient manner. Ultimately, it
As our global Leap conferences draw to a close for this year with our Leap London event, we have welcomed more than 2,400 work management leaders and hosted more than 250 sessions, led by over 200 presenters including authors, technologists, and of course our customers.
Delegates from enterprise
Workfront Recognises Customer and Partner Achievements in Modern Work Management
Today Workfront announced the 2019 Lion Award winners at our Leap user conference in London. During the conference party, Workfront CEO Alex Shootman and Vice President EMEA Simon Griggs presented Lion Awards to
