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Performance Phrases For Performance Reviews

This completely revised and updated second edition of Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews provides hundres of ready-made phrases you can use to clearly communicate any employee performance in 74 different skill areas. ...more

Perfect Phrases For Setting Performance Goals

This completely revised and updated second edition of Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals provides hundreds of precisely worded performance goals you can put to use in virtually any situation. ...more

Performance Management - A Briefcase Book Second Edition Perfromance Managment A Briefcase Book

Proven strategies for maximizing employee commitment and performance As a manager, you know that employee performance is your most important asset—but are you making smart, well-thought-out efforts to leverage it to its fullest? Manager’s Guide to Performance Management helps you get the most out of your people by focusing on performance planning (instead of appraising), creating a dialog (instead of issuing directives), and solving problems (instead of pointing blame). ... more

 

Most Commonly Used Appraisal Method and its Inevitable Failure

What's the most common method used in performance appraisals? It's an easy question. it's not 360 degree feedback. It's not narratives and anecdotal methods. It's not direct observation and using actual metrics of productivity.

It's employee ratings.

Sadly, rating employees on some sort of scale, while common, is one of the worst ways to both evaluate performance, and improve performance. And when coupled with ranking employees with respect to each other, the entire process ends up NOT able to identify the most valuable or even weakest employees, resulting in poor decisions.

This is such an important element in the workplace that we've devoted this page to understanding ratings, their evil cousins, employee rankings, and their limitations.

First, All About Documenting Employee Performance

Rating systems, and for that matter the completion of paper or computer based forms constitute a process of documenting employee performance. It's a simple process -- simply recording and saving information.

The Various Employee Performance Documentation Methods

Narrative And Critical Incident Methods

MBO - Management By Objectives

Bringing MBO Into The 21st Century - Step 1 (coming soon)

360 Degree Feedback

 

About Company

Bacal & Associates was founded in 1992 by consultant and book author, Robert Bacal. Robert's books on performance management and reviews have been published by McGraw-Hill. He is available for consultation, training and keynote speaking on performance and management at work.

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We Believe

  • Performance management and appraisal MUST be a partnership between manager and employee where BOTH benefit.
  • Performance management can be the lever for improved employee engagement.
  • The review process is the LEAST important part of performance management
  • If managers aren't managing employee performance, why are they there?

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  • Bacal & Associates
  • 722 St. Isidore Rd.
  • Casselman
  • Ontario
  • Canada, K0A 1M0