Performance Management Set (booklets)

Employee appraisals and performance reviews

This set of small, compact booklets is designed to help you carry out employee performance appraisals and reviews with ease. You will discover how to prepare for and plan the review, how to write and agree the objectives and how to give feedback. 

It includes the booklets:

• “How to Write Objectives That Work”
• “Feedback for the Faint-Hearted”
• “Praise and the Appraisal”

Performance Management

Each booklet is stuffed full of tools and techniques to help you manage performance without difficulty. 

Read the essential tips you need to achieve dramatic improvements in your management skills that will help you deliver your objectives.

"How to Write Objectives That Work"

55 Tips & Techniques by Nancy Slessenger

This booklet is small & compact, it covers 55 simple tips in 17 short pages, and it's full of real-life examples that you can immediately copy and modify to suit your situation. In it you'll discover:

• How to create perfect goals from scratch that communicate & motivate
• How to take any plan you've got and make it SMART - Specific, Measurable, Aligned, Relevant and Time-bounded
• The single biggest pitfall most people encounter when setting goals, and how you can safely bypass it
• The 8 Most Dangerous Phrases to Avoid ... and what to say instead that moves your projects forward
• The one acid test to ensure your objectives are well-chosen, understandable to your team & immediately actionable
• How to measure your progress quickly, easily & consistently, through to the end

"Feedback for the Faint-hearted"

62 tips on how to give feedback that improves performance by Nancy Slessenger

Badly given feedback actually reduces performance. That includes phrases like:

‘Great job’
‘You were wonderful’
‘You are brilliant’

In this simple, step by step guide you will discover:

• What feedback really is.
• How to give feedback.
• Why there is no such thing as ‘positive or negative’ feedback.
• Damaging and dangerous ways of giving feedback that you must avoid.
• The three key ways of giving feedback.
• 20 Specific examples of how to give feedback
• 10 examples of how not to do it.
• How to give feedback in really difficult situations.
• How to give written feedback and specific examples
• What you should absolutely never ask when you need feedback
• A really easy strategy for dealing with unwanted, unfair or unpleasant feedback

"Praise and the Appraisal"

105 Tips & Techniques to Make Appraisals Work by Nancy Slessenger

In this simple, step by step guide you will discover:

• How to plan for the appraisal
• How to structure the appraisal
• How to make difficult discussions about performance easy
• How to apply scoring systems, gradings and ratings in a way that is fair and consistent
• How to handle those awkward moments
• What to do if an individual has not achieved their objectives
• How to phrase written comments on a review form
• How to work out a development plan
• How to make the process motivational