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How to Write SMART Objectives
Sign up for one of my five day email courses on how to write objectives for your team, yourself or, if you are an HR Professional, how to help others to write objectives.
How to Do Appraisals, Performance Reviews and PDRs
Pick the five day email course that suits you. For HR Professionals get tips on how to help others to do appraisals well and find out why they have the problems they do.
For Managers, find out how to prepare for and carry out appraisals. If it's just your appraisal you need to be prepared for, there's a course specially for you. Pick the course you need.
How to Deal with Difficult People
You know how frustrated you and your colleagues feel at wasting valuable time dealing with difficult people, but have you ever wondered how much it's actually costing your business?
Nancy Slessenger has prepared a special calculator to help you work out the costs. Try it, you'll be horrified! Difficult People Calculator.
A five day email course on dealing with Bullies and other people who give you a hard time in and outside the work environment. Pick up some simple, easy to apply tips that will transform the way these people respond to you. Understand why they are difficult and what to do about it.
You can can pick the course to suit your needs right here.
Articles about Dealing With Difficult People and Behaviours
How to recognise and deal with Disruptive People at work.
A Simple Tool for dealing with Difficult People
Happiness Tips
Free tips on lots of different ways to be happy. None of them are expensive - they're all simple things that anyone can do. Some of them will surprise you.
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17 Articles on Performance Management
- The 18 Dirty Words You Can't Say in Objectives (That Everyone Says Anyway)
- SMART Objectives and SMART Goals With Examples. Want to know what SMART Objectives and Goals are? Find out here
- Do You Make These Mistakes In Your Objectives? Get this check list to help you.
- 6 Tips to Get Yourself Motivated. Easy ideas that will get you going.
- Can People Change? 2 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Try
- The Only Two Ways to Improve Time Management. Find out what they are
- Never Give Feedback Again. You may be surprised to see me advising you not to give any more feedback. But I am. Find out why here.
- 6 Step Tool For Personal Planning Success. Find out how to do it the easy way
- 3 Cases of Bullying in 1 Week. Tips on how to deal with bullying.
- The Second Big Secret in Increasing Output, How to avoid an easy mistake
- How to find out what people's values really are. A simple question that you can ask and may save you a lot
- Why Goals Help. What having goals does to make it easier to achieve more
- Tantrum-Fixing Technique. Here's what to do if you have to deal with people who throw tantrums
- How to Give Feedback that Improves Intelligence. A simple way to improve intelligence is to give feedback effectively. Discover the keys to doing this and what to avoid
- Why There are Still Poor Performers in Your Organisation. Ever wondered why there are so many people who just aren't performing in your organisation? Or who are still causing problems for everyone else. In my report 'How long has this been going on' you'll find out why they're there.
- Is SMART worth bothering about? A controversial view.
- A Handbag. What's a handbag got to do with Objectives?
- Defines SMART – what it is and what it REALLY means
- Goes through each step of SMART, identifying how your objectives can be SMART but still completely wrong
- Explains what you need to do to get your objectives right
- Identifies what objectives are really for – you may not know this
- Shows how it is that all the people in a department can achieve all their objectives but the department still fails
- Clearly identifies the manager’s responsibilities as far as objectives are concerned
Grapevine Blog
Nancy Slessenger writes a regular blog, covering all the Vinehouse topics - SMART Objectives, Performance Management, Dealing With Difficult People and all kinds of general skills useful in the workplace and in getting things done. As usual, Nancy pulls no punches in her blog and you'll find that it's full of useful ideas and tips. Often you'll find that Nancy challenges your preconceptions about performance management and she always backs up her thoughts with real experiences. Just click the link below and bookmark the page.
Free Downloadable Report - What's Wrong With SMART Objectives?
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