by Dick Grote | Jun 5, 2011 | Performance Management
“Onboarding” is the most recent addition to a manager’s checklist of performance management activities. Only in the last few years has it been seen as a separate and specific activity. Paying attention to onboarding is a good thing. Originally, the process of...
by Dick Grote | Mar 12, 2010 | Performance Management
Tip #10 — Use, monitor and update the program. Audit the quality of appraisals, the extent to which the system is being used, and the extent to which the original objectives have been met. Demand 100 per cent uncomplaining compliance with deadlines and requirements....
by Dick Grote | Feb 19, 2010 | Performance Management
Tip #9 — Orient all appraisees. The program’s purposes and procedures must be explained in advance — enthusiastically — to everyone who will be affected by it. They need to understand that the purpose of performance appraisal is to benefit them. How does it benefit...
by Dick Grote | Feb 6, 2010 | Performance Management
Tip #8 — Train all appraisers. Performance appraisal requires a multitude of skills — behavioral observation and discrimination, goal-setting, developing people, confronting unacceptable performance, persuading, problem-solving, planning. Unless appraiser training is...
by Dick Grote | Jan 23, 2010 | Performance Management
Tip #7 — Demand that appraisals tell the truth. We all remember from our school days that some teachers were easy graders and some were tough. But allowing variable standards is unfair in an organization where a level playing field is mandatory. The easiest way to...
