description: Light the Fire Leveraging Appraisals for Maximum Performance Beth A. Ferrara Managing and appraising employee performance is one of the most difficult parts of a manager’s or leader’s job. Light the Fire dramatizes how the true power in managing and appraising performance lies in ongoing feedback, coaching and mentoring, and recognition between manager and employee. It spells out specific techniques to help managers improve communication, build motivation, and facilitate each employee’s journey through the levels of performance development. Give managers the critical skills necessary to light the fire under every employee Full of skill-building exercises, role-plays, and icebreakers, Light the Fire is organized into three units: Unit 1: Writing Effective Goals and Objectives • Write goals that are specific, measurable, aggressive and realistic • Put goals into action • Share goals with others—and improve your chance of success Unit 2: Charting Success • Understand your company’s vision, strategies and priorities • Align your department’s goals with your company’s vision, strategies and priorities • Identify and develop your individual goals and objectives • Prioritize the critical tasks needed to turn goals into action Unit 3: Coaching and Development • Reap the benefits of a good coaching/mentoring relationship • Apply the principles of successful development • Set up the coaching/development meeting: Choose the time, location, purpose and agenda • Ask good questions and really listen to the answers • Get information to flow upward— from employee to manager 12 Ways Your Managers Will Benefit 	1.	Get hands-on practice writing goals and objectives that are clear and brief. 	2.	Reflect critically on their own goals and learn the importance of revising them. 	3.	Understand how they fit into the organization’s vision and business strategies and priorities. 	4.	Discover how goals and objectives align and build on each other. 	5.	Set goals that reflect the entire scope of their jobs, not just part of their responsibilities. 	6.	Become skilled at developing others—a vital skill to moving up. 	7.	Become adept at sharing information in feedback situations. 	8.	Select the right setting when planning a feedback conversation. 	9.	Successfully manage the 3 types of ongoing feedback situations. 	10.	Ask good open-ended questions to bring out important points for discussion. 	11. 	Feel more comfortable talking about difficult things with their managers. 	12.	Help others be more positive about upcoming changes.
title: Light The Fire Course Book
titlecomplete: Light The Fire Course Book (Pack Of 5)
publisher: HRD Press