Advice and Suggestions


  • The Busy Learner's Kit For Making Performance Management and Appraisal VALUABLE: Walking The Path TogetherBusy? We walk you through the complete process of managing performance, from goal setting to addressing performance problems and discipline issues. Contains ALL our help cards, and here's a sneak peak: Walk the path WITH employees.
  • Why don't we prepare employees for their performance reviews?Well, we do. Here's a low cost mini-guide FOR EMPLOYEES so they can be active participants in a truly collaborative performance review.
  • How can you fix performance problems if you don't know the cause?Well, you can't, so this short LearnByte guides explains how to identify barriers to employee performance, in order to clear them away. Diagnosing is the key to productivity improvement.
  • The Performance Management and Performance Review Checklist For ManagersOk. Now you can have a reusable checklist so you don't miss any of the critical steps needed to succeed with your employee reviews.
  • Plan To Remove The Pain Of Performance AppraisalsSave huge amounts of time and frustration during performance review meetings, by having set proper goals and objectives for the employee. Isn't that your job? To make sure employees know what they need to accomplish?
  • Overview of the Performance Management Process For Managers & SupervisorsIf you think performance management = performance appraisal, you NEED this badly.
  • You Think Discipline Is Punishment? How Wrong Can You Be...and how damaging to your employees. We'll walk you through the entire process of dealing with performance problems with one goal: To FIX them, and improve productivity. And we ask for less than 20 minutes of your time.
  • Many of Our Learning Tools Are Available On The KindlePrefer Kindle? Many of our quick read helpcards and also our books on performance management and reviews and how to make them work, are available via Amazon on the KINDLE. Click here to go direct.
  • NEW! 10 Ways To Modernize Performance ManagementIt's 2013, not 1945 and it's time to lose the industrial mindset and use management tools for THIS century. Here's ten steps to improvement.
The Busy Learner's Kit For Making Performance Management and Appraisal VALUABLE: Walking The Path Together1 Why don't we prepare employees for their performance reviews?2 How can you fix performance problems if you don't know the cause?3 The Performance Management and Performance Review Checklist For Managers4 Plan To Remove The Pain Of Performance Appraisals5 Overview of the Performance Management Process For Managers & Supervisors6 You Think Discipline Is Punishment? How Wrong Can You Be7 Many of Our Learning Tools Are Available On The Kindle8 NEW! 10 Ways To Modernize Performance Management9
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Top : Advice and Suggestions - Learn how to improve performance reviews and appraisals from these articles providing advice and suggestions about how to do evaluations properly.

Performance Management Articles, Guides and Help:

Performance Reviews: What Your Employees Are Really Thinking | Inc.com

By Jeff Haden - Introduces the idea of "counter-factual" thinking" as an explanation of why performance reviews don't seem to have much impact on behavior. Newest Additions Viewed 4 Times )

For Employees - My Supervisor Stopped Doing Staff Appraisals Once I Reached The Top of My Pay Grade. What Should I Do?

By Robert Bacal - Many managers stop doing appraisals when pay is no longer dependent on them. If you are an employee, should you worry about that? Here's the answer. Viewed 1294 Times )

Motivate staff to take performance appraisals seriously

By Steve A. Watson - Performance appraisals and reviews work best when employees take them seriously and participate actively. Learn how to motivate your employees to be full participants in the process and work as partners. Viewed 1110 Times )

Will Employees Self Evaluate Themselves Unrealistically High?

By Robert Bacal - Managers are often concerned that employees asked to self evaluate or self appraise their performance will tend to be more lenient, or evaluate themselves in an artificially positive way. It's a realistic fear but it's often not true. Learn why. Viewed 782 Times )

Employee Evaluation Help for Non-Profits

By TGCI - Ten part article (parts are short) focusing on how to use employee evaluation techniques in non-profit organizations. Useful stuff! Viewed 1486 Times )

We're Looking at Performance Management in the Wrong Way

By Kathy Gurchiek - Excellent article that gets to some of the problems with the mindset of how we look at performance management and employee reviews that undermines their usefulness. Ties performance management into employee engagement. Viewed 19 Times )

Conducting Employee Performance Review Tips

By na - Fairly short suggestions on conducting the performance review meeting, starting with greeting, summary, and going through strengths, weaknesses, feedback, salary and closing. Viewed 3376 Times )

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