

Performance Appraisals That Work
A Constructive Framework For Talking About Performance

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5 Steps To End Waste-Of-Time Reviews Once And For All
If you’re tired of uninspiring, time-wasting performance reviews and want to turn them into a valuable employee development tool and take the mystery out of evaluating and documenting performance, then this 5-step framework is for you.
Get Answers To Your Most Pressing Review Questions
- How do I use the review to tangibly improve employee performance?
- What do employees actually want from a performance review?
- What should and shouldn’t I say or write in a performance review?
- Why do so many performance reviews fail to engage and motivate employees?
- What if there is disagreement between manager and employee on performance?
- How can I conduct great performance reviews even if my company uses an outdated process or system?
16 Ways Performance Reviews Run Off The Rails
In order to get the results you want, reviews must be done well – every time, and there’s far too much room for error in reviews which causes them to quickly run off the rails.
To help, we dive into the top 16 things to avoid when conducting performance reviews and what to do instead.
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53-page Blueprint, 5-step framework provides a success plan you can use to make your job as a manager easier, less painful and more rewarding – while creating a positive work environment where employees are engaged, motivated and highly productive. Plus, five tools to help implement the Blueprint Success Plan.

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5-Step Framework For Talking About Performance
- Why performance reviews have become sterile “annual inspections” that give everyone involved a numbing feeling
- 7 misconceptions about what a performance review is for – and what it’s really about
- Managing expectations for both the “ready to move up” and “simply content” employee
- How to organize the written review – whether you have a standard form or not
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Key Elements To Conduct Effective Reviews Time And Again
- Where to begin – how to avoid sabotaging the review before it starts
- Managing expectations for both the “ready to move up” and “simply content” employee
- How to organize the written review – whether you have a standard form or not
- How to express poor performance without provoking hostility or leaving the employee feeling dejected
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Extra Resources Included
Five Practical Tools To Help You Implement Everything You’ve Learned From The Blueprint
24-point, Printable Performance Review Checklist
8-Question Employee Self Evaluation Questionnairer
7 Examples of Complete Written Evaluations for Different Scenarios
25 Effective Phrases to Use in Written Performance Review
25 Phrases NOT to Use in Written Performance Review
16 Reasons Performance Reviews Fail
- # 2 – The top-down, one-way review
- # 3 – Sugar-coating
- # 11 – Making reviews seem routine
- # 14 – Being late
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