Author: Lawrence Holpp Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 240
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Increase Productivity with High-Impact Performance Reviews! Performance appraisals may not be everyone's favorite task. Done right, though, they serve as a vital part of company strategy-and document in black and white your contribution to the organization's success. Win-Win Performance Appraisals gives you the knowledge, insight, and tools to transform every performance review from a painful, one-hour "sit down" into a collaborative process for achieving long-term goals. GET ALL THE INSIGHT, TIPS, AND TACTICS TO: Align objectives with corporate strategy Write unbiased, productive evaluations Hold face-to-face reviews focused on moving forward -not looking back Avoid possible legal pitfalls Conduct follow-up reviews that benefi t you and your employee.
Author: Lawrence Holpp Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional ISBN: 0071736115 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
Increase Productivity with High-Impact Performance Reviews! Performance appraisals may not be everyone’s favorite task. Done right, though, they serve as a vital part of company strategy—and document in black and white your contribution to the organization’s success. Win-Win Performance Appraisals gives you the knowledge, insight, and tools to transform every performance review from a painful, one-hour “sit down” into a collaborative process for achieving long-term goals. GET ALL THE INSIGHT, TIPS, AND TACTICS TO: Align objectives with corporate strategy Write unbiased, productive evaluations Hold face-to-face reviews focused on moving forward —not looking back Avoid possible legal pitfalls Conduct follow-up reviews that benefi t you and your employee
Author: Stephanie Lyster Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company ISBN: 1601380690 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 349
Book Description
No matter what type of business or even nonprofit organization you are managing, a written performance appraisal is good management. Employee reviews can serve as a platform for employees to bring forth questions and concerns. This can help increase employee dedication, creativity, and job satisfaction. Reviews allow you to evaluate employees for increased responsibilities and future promotions. You will have written records of your employees performance, get more productivity, and clearly set compensation. Employee appraisals are critical to your organization, but are time-consuming to write. This new book and companion CD-ROM is your solution. You will produce professional-quality performance reviews in minutes. The book provides over 199 pre-written employee phrases you can insert into a blank employee appraisal form. The evaluations are professional, constructive, and direct. See the accompanying CD-ROM for 25 different categories to evaluate your employee in. Each category includes at least 8 different phrases you can choose from to describe your employees performance in that category. Pick and choose which categories you would like to include in your employees performance appraisal and how you want to describe your employees performance in that category and then just insert them all into the prepared appraisal form. The companion CD-ROM is included with the print version of this book; however is not available for download with the electronic version. It may be obtained separately by contacting Atlantic Publishing Group at [email protected] Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed. This Atlantic Publishing eBook was professionally written, edited, fact checked, proofed and designed. The print version of this book is 288 pages and you receive exactly the same content. Over the years our books have won dozens of book awards for content, cover design and interior design including the prestigious Benjamin Franklin award for excellence in publishing. We are proud of the high quality of our books and hope you will enjoy this eBook version.
Author: American Institute of Architects Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118667131 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 1641
Book Description
The definitive guide to architectural practice Business, legal, and technical trends in architecture are constantly changing. The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice has offered firms the latest guidance on those trends since 1920. The Fifteenth Edition of this indispensable guide features nearly two-thirds new content and covers all aspects of contemporary practice, including updated material on: Small-firm practice, use of technologies such as BIM, and project delivery methods, such as IPD and architect-led design-build Career development and licensure for emerging professionals and state-mandated continuing education for established architects Business management topics, such as organizational development, marketing, finance, and human resources Research as an integrated aspect of architectural practice, featuring such topics as evidence-based design and research in a small-firm context The Fifteenth Edition of The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice includes access to a website that contains samples of all AIA Contract Documents (in PDF format for Mac and PC computers). With comprehensive coverage of contemporary practices in architecture, as well as the latest developments and trends in the industry, The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice continues to be the essential reference for every architect who must meet the challenges of today's marketplace with insight and confidence.
Author: Richard C. Grote Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN: 1422162281 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
If you're an executive, manager, or team leader, one of your toughest responsibilities is managing your people's performance. How do you appraise just how well a direct report has carried out her job? What do you do if informal coaching fails to improve mediocre performance? In How to be Good at Performance Appraisals Dick Grote provides a concise, hands-on guide to succeeding at every task required by your company's performance appraisal and management process. Through step-by-step instructions, examples, sample dialogues, and suggested scripts, he shows you how to handle appraisal activities ranging from setting goals, defining job responsibilities, and coaching to providing recognition, assessing performance and discussing it with employees, and creating development plans. Grote also explains how to tackle other performance management activities your company requires, such as determining compensation, developing and retaining star performers, and solving people problems.This book is so accessible and practical that you won't just read it once and put it away. Instead, you'll be sure to keep it within arm's reach, referring to particular chapters each time you face a performance management task.
Author: Jeffrey L. Buller Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118123743 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 496
Book Description
THE ESSENTIAL DEPARTMENT CHAIR This second edition of the informative and influential The Essential Department Chair offers academic chairs and department heads the information they need to excel in their roles. This book is about the "how" of academic administration: for instance, how do you cultivate a potential donor for much-needed departmental resources? How do you persuade your department members to work together more harmoniously? How do you keep the people who report to you motivated and capable of seeing the big picture? Thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded, this classic resource covers a broad spectrum of timely topics and is now truly more than a guide—it's a much-needed desk reference that tells you "everything you need to know to be a department chair." The Essential Department Chair contains information on topics such as essentials of creating a strategic plan, developing and overseeing a budget, key elements of fundraising, preparing for the role of chair, meeting the challenges of mentoring to increase productivity, and creating a more collegial atmosphere. The book also explores the chair's role in the search process, shows how to conduct a successful interview and what to do when it's time to let someone go. And the author includes suggestions for the best practices to adopt when doing an evaluation or assessment. The Essential Department Chair, Second Edition, contains a wealth of new, realistic case studies to equip leaders in this pivotal position to excel in departmental and institutional life.
Author: Julio Gimenez Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000890058 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 331
Book Description
Backed by evidence and research, this practical book presents an innovative yet comprehensive approach to teaching non-native English speakers the main communication and cultural competencies that are required to succeed in an international English-speaking workplace. Each unit includes strategies for teaching key skills, tasks to encourage reflection and notes on relevant cultural and technological issues. Practical features in each unit include lesson plans and materials, insights from research, extension tasks, reflection activities and further readings. Supported by current learning theories, key teaching methodologies and assessment materials, the chapters address the challenges that non-native English speakers may face in the international English-speaking workplace. Areas of focus include: Job hunting Job applications Interviews Interpersonal, written and spoken communication Performance appraisals Applying for promotions Written for pre-service, practicing and future teachers, with specific guidance for each role, this is an essential resource for all educators who want to confidently address the challenges that non-English speakers may encounter at work, including linguistic proficiency, cultural awareness and the use of technology.
Author: Erwin Rausch Publisher: Wiley-Interscience ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
A detailed overview of performance management, showing how to set up an effective system and revise an existing one. Stresses the skills required to conduct a fair performance evaluation and avoid undesirable conflicts that may arise during an appraisal. Discusses problems that supervisors face working within an existing system and provides suggestions for resolving them. An appendix provides sample forms and discussions of relevant management theory, laws and regulations affecting personnel actions, and a section on performance evaluation of Federal employees.
Author: Glenn Shepard Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471745774 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 163
Book Description
The motivations and values of the newest generation entering the workforce are different from those of previous generations. You may be baffled about how to motivate or connect with this new generation. Learn how to modify the evaluation process based on the values of the new generation in How to Make Performance Evaluations Really Work. You'll find step-by-step guidelines for evaluating and motivating employees, learn what mistakes to avoid, what the legal pitfalls to watch for, and get numerous sample ready-to-use evaluation forms and sample phrases you can use as is or customize and make your own.
Author: Wendy Denham Publisher: Human Resource Development ISBN: 1599968819 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 309
Book Description
50 Activities for Performance Appraisal Training. Quick exercises that get results in just minutes. By Wendy Denham and Jane Jestico. Teaching employees how to deliver effective performance appraisals will pay big dividends in your organization. But, too often, employees perceive the training as uninteresting OCo even boring. HereOCOs a terrific resource full of hands-on exercises that will make training in this vital area enjoyable and extremely motivating. Every employee OCo regardless of how experienced they are in appraisals OCo will be stimulated by learning how to question, listen, be objective, give feedback, communicate and manage the process. Each activity is ready-to-use and includes a description, when to use it, objectives, materials and time required, and methods. Each activity takes under 60 minutes or so to complete. Need to find a specific activity quickly? No problem. The activities are categorized into two groups OCo the skills and the process OCo so they are easy to select. All handouts are numbered using the same number as the activity. And some youOCOll want to make into transparencies for use with an overhead projector. Whether youOCOre a new or experienced trainer, youOCOll find all the support you need to lead the activities, adapt them to your own training style and give performance appraisal training the priority it deserves. Sample activities: Actions Speak Louder; Confirm It in Writing; Do You Really Mean That?; Just Stick to the Facts; Praise versus Criticism; What Do You Think?; Where Do We Go from Here?. 308 pp"
Author: Lawrence Holpp
Author: Lawrence Holpp
Author: Stephanie Lyster
Author: American Institute of Architects
Author: Richard C. Grote
Author: Jeffrey L. Buller
Author: Julio Gimenez
Author: Erwin Rausch
Author: Glenn Shepard
Author: Wendy Denham