What does it take to build healthy, thriving teams that drive business results? This question is critical, with recent Gallup research showing employee engagement at an all-time low. To make matters worse, managers are increasingly expected to do more with less and face burnout and lack of enablement. To top it all off, companies globally experience $322 billion in lost productivity because our current approach is actually making things worse, not better.

 

Recent research proves managers are the secret to unlocking top performance on teams and across organizations—and yet, we’re currently setting our managers up to fail. This session, led by Bonusly's Chief Customer Officer Debra Squyres, will discuss why historically under-valuing and under-investing in managers has caused a culture and performance crisis. Then, she will dive into actionable ways HR teams can partner with managers to drive performance, which starts with throwing out the old ways of traditional performance management.

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After this session, you'll know:​​

1. Why traditional performance management fails 

2. How to enable performance through meaningful, ongoing interactions

3. Actionable strategies to equip and support your managers, leading to a stronger company culture and business outcomes

4. How prioritizing manager training and well-being directly impacts business success.

5. Real-world examples from Bonusly on building and empowering successful teams

 

Speaker Bio:

As Bonusly's Chief Customer Officer, Debra combines her passion for an exceptional customer experience with her drive to empower companies to connect, motivate, and engage their employees to build winning workplaces. Prior to Bonusly, Debra was the VP of CS at Beamery and the Chief Client Officer at Namely, to name a few. She has over 25 years of experience in senior leadership roles in Human Resources ranging from in-house HR leadership to HR Consulting, Outsourcing, Client Services, and Customer Success working directly with HR teams across a variety of industries. She currently resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband.