How to Manage Performance: 24 Lessons for Improving Performance - Softcover

Robert Bacal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0077116232 ISBN 13: 9780077116231

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2007

Synopsis

"How to Manage Performance" explains how to apply and stimulate greater productivity in the workplace. The reader will gain invaluable tips and pointers for achieving performance levels once thought unattainable. While performance itself may be a wide-ranging, difficult-to-quantify word, the results of improved performance are easy to measure and can mean the difference between competitive strength and vulnerability. The reader will discover techniques that can be used to inspire breakthrough performance, infusing both employees and the reader's career with renewed commitment and success in "How to Manager Performance".

About this title

From the Back Cover

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Inspire your people and achieve breakthrough productivity

Packed with inside tips on achieving performance levels once thought unattainable, How to Manage Performance provides you with the goal-focused, commonsense tools you need to stimulate productivity in any environment. Get the hands-on knowledge and insight you need to:

Modernize your thinking

Work with employees

Set performance incentives

Plan precisely with clear goals

Conduct effective reviews

Identify causes

Recognize success

Use cooperative communication

Manage conflict with grace

Document performance

Develop employees

Continuously improve your system

How to Manage Performance will help you increase the productivity of your staff, improve morale, and align individual employee performance with the goals of your organization.

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How to Manage Performance arms you with proven techniques for inspiring breakthrough productivity levels and infusing both your and your employees' careers with renewed commitment and success. This concise, dynamic guide features 24 powerful strategies and action steps for communicating the performance you expect from-and the incentives you can offer to-dedicated employees, detailing:

The difference between performance appraisal and performance management

Ways to communicate an employee's essential job functions and establish clear expectations

The barriers that hinder performance and how they can be minimized or eliminated

Methods for creating a climate that supports and encourages employees to communicate with you-all year long

Best practices for preparing for and holding performance reviews

Guidelines for documenting problems and communicating those issues to employees

Successful performance management means helping your employees understand what they should be doing-and why-while empowering them with the ability to make day-to-day decisions. How to Manage Performance gives you the skills and tools you need to ensure effective communication and stimulate greater productivity company-wide.

Robert Bacal is the CEO of Bacal and Associates, a management training and consulting firm. He is the author or coauthor of a number of management-based books, including Manager's Guide to Performance Reviews, Performance Management, and others.

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Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0077116232
• ISBN 13: 9780077116231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128