Probably the most challenging part of the performance appraisal meeting is giving feedback to our employees on their performance. But, of course, feedback we must give – if we want the performance appraisal meeting to be motivational for our employee and to result in improved performance So how can we give motivational performance feedback [...]
Filed under Management Skills by on May 17th, 2012. Comment. 
Management skills: Do you feel the need to know all the answers? When I’m helping managers, team leaders and business owners develop their people management skills I often come across some reluctance to take action to practice those management skills – to actually take action to manage their employee’s performance. Often this reluctance is about [...]
Filed under Management Skills by on May 10th, 2012. 1 Comment.
One of the most interesting things about learning how to delegate (and why, so often, delegation doesn’t work as well as it should) is that managers forget to tell everyone who is affected what has happened. When you have gone through the process of delegation (see some tips in my blog ’10 Quick Tips [...]
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In the first two blogs in this short series on how to close an ‘employee performance gap’ I’ve looked at how to improve employee performance when that improvement is within the control of the employee (including when training can close the gap). I’ve also taken a look at what happens when (and if?) a lack [...]
Filed under Performance Management by on Apr 26th, 2012. Comment.
I’ve been writing a lot recently about one of the key challenges in performance management – closing the employee performance gap (gaps a gap between; a) what you want and need from your employees and b) what you are actually getting from your employees). In this article I’m going to take a look at a [...]
Filed under Performance Management by on Apr 19th, 2012. 1 Comment.
In my blog ‘Improving Employee Performance: 3 Reasons Why Employees Underperform’ I outlined the importance of our employees knowing; what we want, why we want what we want and that what they are currently giving us isn’t what we want! OK, so let’s assume we’ve followed that advice and: • Got clear with our [...]
Filed under Performance Management by on Apr 17th, 2012. 1 Comment.
Do you have an ‘employee performance gap’? Are you trying to improve employee performance? Are you trying to close an ‘employee performance gap’ – a gap between; a) What you want and need from your employees and b) What you are actually getting from your employees? Do you know why there’s an [...]
Filed under Performance Management by on Apr 5th, 2012. 3 Comments.
In my blog ‘Performance Management: Mind the Gaps!’ I talked about what happens when there is a gap between good performance management practice and our actual performance management practices. In Performance Management Gaps: Monitoring Employee Performance I covered (go on, make a guess) monitoring. In this blog I’m covering what happens when there’s a gap [...]
Filed under Performance Feedback by on Mar 28th, 2012. Comment.
In my blog ‘Performance Management: Mind the Gaps!’ I talked about what happens when there is a gap between good performance management practice and our performance management practice – when there’s a gap between what we know we should be doing in performance management and what we are actually doing or, more often, not doing [...]
Filed under Performance Management by on Mar 22nd, 2012. 1 Comment.
Performance Management: Is there a gap between good practice and your practice? I’m sure you know what good practice looks like in performance management; clarity about our expectations of our employee’s performance, monitoring employee performance, feedback on employee performance? And I’m sure you know that ‘good practice’ means that these performance management techniques really work [...]
Filed under Performance Management by on Mar 15th, 2012. 2 Comments.
