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Back to the Blaast Basics: What is Performance Management?
At Blaast, our goal is driving impressive results for your business by focusing on performance management. So today, let’s go back to the basics. What is performance management? Through a search engine’s…

Remote Work and the Environment: Companies and their Sustainability Efforts
Two years after the Covid-19 pandemic introduced us to the work-from-home lifestyle, is the environment better off? It seems like common sense that, yes, the world is less polluted as we work…

Using the Employee Experience to Increase Retention
Right now, Americans are leaving their jobs more than ever before. In August of this year, 4.3 million people quit their jobs. The quits rate, measured against total unemployment, rose to a…

OKRs: Strategizing for Growth
There are about a hundred different ways to go about goal setting in a company. In fact, this is probably one of the most important things that managers do. Key Performance Indicators,…

Performance-Focused Culture vs. Growth Culture: Why Blaast Chooses the Latter
We live in a high-paced corporate world unlike any in history. Business executives are faced with a highly competitive environment, and the pressure is on to see results. With the success of…

5 Tips For Eliminating Annual Performance Reviews
We’ve all been there; that dreaded calendar invite from your manager for your annual performance review. For millions of employees worldwide, this does nothing but create a great deal of anxiety and…

Skill Will Matrix: Creating Motivated Employees
As a manager, one of the most difficult aspects of the job description is performance management, and from there, some may feel the hardest part is determining where to start—analyzing employees on…