Product Description

"How to Manage Performance" contains 24 Lessons for improving performance dramatically. Increased productivity is the primary driver of growth in today's workplace. But productivity improvements don't occur in a vacuum - they require knowledge, action, and a commitment to performance on the part of frontline supervisors and managers."How to Manage Performance" provides managers with goal-focused, commonsense techniques to stimulate employee productivity in any environment. This results-based guidebook features 24 invaluable strategies and action steps you can use to communicate the performance you expect from - and the incentives you can offer to - high-performing employees. Let this concise, dynamic book show you how to: manage performance; work with employees; set performance incentives; align employee goals; conduct effective reviews; identify causes; recognize success; manage conflict with grace; document performance; and, develop employees.While performance itself may be a wide-ranging, difficult-to-quantify word, the results of improved performance are easy to measure - and can mean the difference between competitive strength and vulnerability. Discover techniques you can use to inspire breakthrough performance, and infuse both your employees and your career with renewed commitment and success, in "How to Manage Performance."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45067 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

From the Back Cover

HOW TO MANAGE PERFORMANCE

24 Lessons for Improving Performance

Dramatically increased productivity is the primary driver of growth in today's workplace. But productivity improvements don't occur in a vacuum--they require knowledge, action, and a commitment to performance on the part of frontline supervisors and managers.

How to Manage Performance provides managers with goal-focused, commonsense techniques to stimulate employee productivity in any environment. This results-based guidebook features 24 invaluable strategies and action steps you can use to communicate the performance you expect from--and the incentives you can offer to--high-performing employees. Let this concise, dynamic book show you how to:

• Manage performance
• Work with employees
• Set performance incentives
• Align employee goals
• Conduct effective reviews
• Identify causes
• Recognize success
• Manage conflict with grace
• Document performance
• Develop employees

While performance itself may be a wide-ranging, difficult-to-quantify word, the results of improved performance are easy to measure--and can mean the difference between competitive strength and vulnerability. Discover techniques you can use to inspire breakthrough performance, and infuse both your employees and your career with renewed commitment and success, in How to Manage Performance.

About the Author

Robert Bacal is the CEO of Bacal & Associates, a management training and consulting firm. He is the author or coauthor of a number of management-based books, including Manager's Guide to Performance Reviews, Performance Management, and others.

Customer Reviews

Great reference & refresher guide
After being on a 2 year career break from managing people this book has been really great in refreshing my memory on the basics of managing performance.

I have recommended this book, and various others to friends and colleagues e.g How to Motivate your team, Coaching, Project Managing, Managing Change.

If you have studied managing and / or just need a quick reference when you are faced with a situation have a look through the McGraw-Hill colleciton of lesson guides!

I know mine never gather dust!

A Line Manager's Must-Have Booklet
This is a great little booklet, with suggestions and ideas to how to keep performance up, along with motivation. Many of these are things we already know (hopefully) but forget to use, or don't use in the right context. This book is essential for a new manager to read, and should be part of the New Hire Start Package!