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Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies

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The newest steps and strategies to enhance the performance appraisals you provide

Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies shows you how to apply the latest performance appraisal practices and generate positive outcomes for your employees, for your company, and for you. The days of stand-alone annual performance appraisals are drawing to a close, with today’s appraisals utilizing quarterly or biannual sessions, continuous feedback with regular two-way communication, collaborative goal-setting, career development, and an ongoing forward focus. This approach includes tools to provide impactful feedback and feedforward, recognize and support employee success, avoid the common mistakes related to performance appraisals, and build your coaching skills.

Gain a clear understanding of the ways that performance appraisals contribute to individual and organizational success.
Provide productive feedback by accessing more than 3,300 phrases.
Lead appraisal sessions that resonate with your employees and set the stage for improved performance and career development.

By applying the newest steps in performance appraisals, you will literally and figuratively be in an excellent position to build your employees’ skills, motivation, performance, satisfaction, and commitment.

The newest steps and strategies to enhance the performance appraisals you provide

Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies shows you how to apply the latest performance appraisal practices and generate positive outcomes for your employees, for your company, and for you. The days of stand-alone annual performance appraisals are drawing to a close, with today’s appraisals utilizing quarterly or biannual sessions, continuous feedback with regular two-way communication, collaborative goal-setting, career development, and an ongoing forward focus. This approach includes tools to provide impactful feedback and feedforward, recognize and support employee

success, avoid the common mistakes related to performance appraisals, and build your coaching skills.

Gain a clear understanding of the ways that performance appraisals contribute to individual and organizational success.
Provide productive feedback by accessing more than 3,300 phrases.
Lead appraisal sessions that resonate with your employees and set the stage for improved performance and career development.

By applying the newest steps in performance appraisals, you will literally and figuratively be in an excellent position to build your employees’ skills, motivation, performance, satisfaction, and commitment.

Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Today’s performance appraisals have undergone major changes that have led to a wide range of positive and productive outcomes for employees, managers, and their companies. These changes start with continuous feedback that is based on managers meeting regularly with their employees throughout a given evaluation period, typically on a scheduled basis as frequently as once a week. These sessions focus on performance, goal progress and attainment, coaching and development, new initiatives, and any other topics, questions, or points of interest that may arise. While these sessions include a discussion of performance and progress, there is equal focus on coaching related to employee growth, upskilling, and career development, as the entire process now focuses on feedforward as well as feedback. A related change is the movement away from annual appraisals and toward more frequent appraisals, typically on a quarterly or biannual basis. The entire process is now more open, transparent, forward-focused, and premised on two-way communication at every step. This leads to performance appraisal sessions that are void of the surprises, angst, stress, and distress that typified annual appraisals and limited contact and communication during the evaluation period. The entire appraisal process is now structured to provide constructive feedback and feedforward that include plans, strategies, and support to improve performance and productivity, enhance learning and growth, strengthen career development, and build employee motivation, satisfaction, and commitment, all in alignment with the goals and mission of the company. The checklists and tips below will help you carry out today’s performance appraisal process successfully, effectively, and productively, especially in terms of providing continuous feedback, preparing for performance appraisal sessions, conducting employee appraisals, avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls, and following up with employees after the appraisal sessions.

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Ken Lloyd, PhD, is a nationally recognized consultant, author, and columnist who specializes in organizational behavior, communication, and management coaching and development.

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