How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals by Dick Grote

How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals by Dick Grote

If you're an executive, manager, or team leader, one of your toughest responsibilities is managing your people's performance. What do you do if informal coaching fails to improve mediocre performance? This book provides a concise, hands-on guide to succeeding at various tasks required by your company's performance appraisal and management process.

"Grote has written a valuable guide for managers on how to appraise and improve the performance of their people" "Unlike many other books on how to improve performance, this one is down-to-earth, a model of clarity and amounts to good value for money. Managers who are facing intractable performance issues would, therefore, likely find it a very powerful work." -- HR Zone "This book offers managers the skills and confidence to navigate the minefield we know as performance appraisals. More importantly, it provides the wisdom and insight that will help any leader dramatically raise the performance level of their team." - Donald H. Brush, Ph.D., President, The Renova Corporation "Those of us who are so fortunate to have worked with Dick Grote know that when he promises How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals: Simple, Effective, Done Right, we can expect solid advice based on real-life experience that actually works! Highly recommended to all managers!" - Thomas Sohns, HR Director, Novo Nordisk; Business Area Africa, Gulf & India "Great tips and thoughts about how to do effective performance appraisals. A mandatory read for any manager who does performance appraisals." - Edward Lawler, author of Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage and Professor, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. "Almost every manager on the planet struggles with the task of conducting performance appraisals. Finally, there is a practical guide based both on research and business best practices that provides enough advice and how-to steps to successfully guide any manager through the appraisal process." - John Sullivan, Ph.D., Professor of Management, San Francisco State University "Dick Grote has been working as a change agent in the C-suite of some of the world's greatest companies for as long as I can remember. In his book How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals, he takes his expertise a step further. To say it plainly: this isn't a book for the C-suite; it's for anyone who manages people." - Anne Ruddy, CCP, CPCU; and President, WorldatWork

Dick Grote is President of Grote Consulting Corporation in Dallas, Texas. He is an expert in performance management and the author of The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal, The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book, Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work, and Discipline Without Punishment.

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ISBN 13	9781422162286
ISBN 10	1422162281
Title	How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals
Author	Dick Grote
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harvard Business Review Press
Year published	2011-07-05
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.