How to Do a Superior Performance Appraisal
The complete guide to painless, mutually profitable performance appraisals… How to do a Superior Performance Appraisal For anybody who equates doing a performance appraisal with a dental appointment, here’s a complete guide to painless, mutually profitable appraisals. Written by bestselling management author and Fortune 1000 consultant William S. Swan, it shows you how to transform what traditionally has been a source of potential conflict among managers and staff members, into a productive and mutually profitable process for both employer and employee.A systematic, step-by-step guide to conducting appraisals that reduces defensiveness and conflict while increasing quality and productivityAll the nuts and bolts of doing an appraisal: data collecting, avoiding errors, knowing EEO guidelines, and much morePacked with useful checklists, information sheets,and sample dialogues, including a model performance appraisal form incorporating what has been proven to be the most powerful approachThroughout, the emphasis is on performance management vs. simplistic "report-card" type systems