by Dick Grote | Aug 15, 2008 | Performance Appraisal, Uncategorized
A few years ago I delivered the closing general session presentation at the Conference Board’s annual Human Resources Conference at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. The audience: 600 VP’s of HR from Fortune 500 and similar organizations. My topic: “Performance...
by Dick Grote | Mar 15, 2008 | Performance Appraisal, Uncategorized
There’s no question that discussing expectations and coaching and feedback should be a routine and ongoing process. And some managers—the great ones, the naturals—do these things routinely. But managers such as this are few and atypical. Left to their own devices, too...
by Dick Grote | Jan 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
Probably the biggest misunderstanding about performance appraisal arises because people don’t understand what a performance appraisal actually is. Let’s make it clear: A performance appraisal is a formal record of a supervisor’s opinion about the quality of an...
by Dick Grote | Mar 1, 2007 | Performance Appraisal, Uncategorized
Performance Appraisal Rating Labels: What’s Best, What’s Worst? Part 1 What’s the worst that performance can be? What is the absolute bottom of the barrel? Would you label performance that is just totally atrocious Unsatisfactory or is it Unacceptable? Is there...
