Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases That Describe Your Employees' Performance by Douglas Max, Robert Bacal

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  • 250pp
  • Sales Rank: 4,848

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  • ISBN-13: 9780071408387
  • Edition Description: New Edition
  • Edition Number: 1
  • Pub. Date: November 2002
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The

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  • Pub. Date: November 2002
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Format: Textbook Paperback, 250pp
  • Sales Rank: 4,848

Synopsis

Writing Performance Reviews is as Easy as Looking Up the Right Phrase!

Finding the right words to assess and describe your employees' performance is an important--and time consuming--exercise for any manager. Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews provides hundreds of ready-made phrases that you can use to describe any employee's performance in 74 different skill areas. The phrases are grouped into five employee performance levels:



  • Outstanding

  • Exceeds expectations

  • Meets expectations

  • Needs improvement

  • Unacceptable

You can use these phrases to:



  • Craft a carefully worded and accurate assessment

  • Document behaviors and accomplishments

  • Specify areas of excellence or poor performance

  • Guide and develop promising workers

  • Make the entire review process more productive for yourself, your organization, and those who report to you

Complete with a step-by-step primer on how to plan, conduct, and write a performance appraisal, Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews is an indispensable resource for managers who want to write fair, accurate reviews that help every employee become more productive.

Douglas Max is Managing Director of LR Communications, a firm that conducts on-site seminars in writing and presentation skills.

Robert Bacal is an author of Managing Performance and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Consulting and other books dealing with human resources issues.

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Douglas Max is Managing Director of LR Communications, a firm that conducts on-site seminars in writing and presentation skills.

Robert Bacal is an author of Managing Performance and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Consulting and other books dealing with human resources issues.

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Waste of moneyby AFChief

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February 18, 2009: I teach performance appraisal writing and tell people not to use this or other books like this one. Using these books is a cop out and does little to capture a person's accomplishments. Focus on setting measurable and attainable standards and then capturing those in the appraisal...stop being lazy, your workers aren't dumb.

Good for First-Timers, Old-Timers, Nearly Every Boss!by Anonymous

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April 12, 2003: This is an excellent aid for any supervisor or manager who wishes to make clear distinctions of performance levels, and for those who are in the throes of clarifying performance ratings and levels. A clear explaination of how to do reviews, with a set of well thought-out example forms, adds value to this work. For those who struggle with getting just the right turn of phrase, to ensure the reviewee understands what is being done right, what needs work or improvement, and what constitutes improvement, PERFECT PHRASES FOR PERFORMANCE REVIEWS will be welcomed with relief. The time saved, alone, will make this title well worth the cost to almost any business with enough employees to justify performance reviews. Recommend this title, either alone, or in conjunction with EFFECTIVE PHRASES FOR PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS, by James E. Neal; the latter title includes two-word phrases and adjectives, which could adapt PERFECT PHRASES even further, and would be a valuable combination for performance reviewers in all industries, businesses, and for government employees.