In Effective Performance Reviews, you'll learn...
- How to provide specific, realistic and tactful feedback to employees
- How to describe the difference between standards and goals and explain the importance of both in improving employee performance
- How to avoid common performance review errors that reduce their effectiveness for the employee, the manager and the company
- How to conduct annual performance reviews that are more comfortable for the manager and the employee—and more effective in attaining higher levels of performance
- And much more!
Conducting annual performance reviews is a task many managers are not comfortable with. This seminar provides the information, tips and applications that will make the process easier, more comfortable and more effective in producing real employee performance improvement.
You’ll discover how to give effective feedback—the most important element in an effective performance review. You’ll also learn the difference between standards and goals, why interim reviews are critical to the review process, the right way to document employee performance and many more invaluable tips and techniques for completing effective performance reviews.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
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Introduction to effective performance reviews+
- Discovering what employees and managers are most concerned about when it comes to performance reviews
- Take a quick self-check to see where you’re at when it comes to performance reviews
- Uncover what effective feedback really is
- Learn the key characteristics of effective feedback
- Understand the steps in the performance review cycle
Standards, goals and interim reviews+
- Understanding the difference between a standard and a goal
- Why it’s helpful to managers and employees to have regular interim reviews
- Tips and tactics for documenting employee performance
- How to make documentation easy
- Uncovering common performance review errors
Conducting the formal performance review+
- How to tie it all together
- Discovering the manager’s checklist for conducting effective performance reviews
- How to prepare for the formal performance review
- The information you need to have available during the meeting
- Effective use of 360° feedback
- How to avoid the common mistakes managers and supervisors make when preparing for performance reviews
- How to anticipate disagreements and questions—and be prepared for them
- How to conduct a fair and constructive performance review
- Why you shouldn’t soft-pedal the issue
- What you need to understand about communicating with other personality styles
- Put what you’ve learned to the test in a role-play scenario
