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Performance Measurement, Management, and Appraisal Sourcebook $59.95 This sourcebook provides complete, up-to-date coverage of all aspects of performance management - communication, coaching, measuring, rating, reviewing, and developing. It is a collection of articles from today's most authoritative sources which have been pre-selected and organized by experts to make it easy for you to get the best information on current trends in the field. This is an invaluable resource for those who are designing, managing, and evaluating performance management systems. It links performance management to strategy, and discusses it as an organizational culture change mechanism. The articles and other resources have been carefully selected to emphasize application, which makes this a practical "how-to" sourcebook on all aspects of performance. Also included are ready-to-use, fully reproducible handouts, questionnaires, transparency masters, and other materials to use in presentations and training. Selected Contents; Performance Management as a Key Tool for Successful Execution of Strategy; How Performance is Measured Today; Developing a Performance Measurement and Management Approach; Establishing Expectations; Coaching; Collecting Performance Data ; Documenting Performance; Performance Review and Appraisal; Performance-Based Pay 650 pp/ Paperback/ Code..PMMA/ $59.95

The Human Touch Performance Appraisal II Training Video - Free Preview How To Training Points: How to conduct a positive and constructive performance appraisal How to be specific and candid How to build on the employee's strengths to improve performance How to evaluate your own performance as a manager, objectively and accurately. Every employee wants to be told how they're doing, honestly and often. Every honest performance appraisal contains both good and bad critiques. This video shows how to conduct "humane" interviews in which you bolster employees by focusing on the positives...while improving performance by tactfully addressing the negatives. Training Package Includes: 23 Minute Video / Training Leader's Guide / Book, The Human Touch Performance Appraisal.-- Also Available On CD-ROM For a Free Preview call: 973-427-3004 Purchase for Corporate $795.00 Purchase for Non-Profit and Education $636.00 Rent it for 30 Days $395.00 Rent it for 15 Days $235.00

The Competency Toolkit. Reproducible. Everything You Need for Competency-Based Employee Performance Initiative- BEST SELLER! ( By: David D. Dubois, Ph.D., & William J. Rothwell, Ph.D.) "The Competency Toolkit provides everything that is needed for a training/OD department or consulting firm to produce competency-based analysis and development. The Toolkit provides resources to guide practitioners through the whole process, front to back, from sponsorship through development to implementation. Comprehensive and well-researched, the kit is a must for managers and developers who want to do it right. Only Dubois and Rothwell could have produced a series of tools this thorough." - Jeremie Hill Grey, Ph.D. The Learning Consortium, Mesa, AZ The Competency Toolkit provides you with the tools you'll need to win key management support for, and to develop and implement powerful competency-based employee performance enhancement opportunities within your organization. The Toolkit contains the most innovative methods, procedures, suggestions, and materials to help your organization initiate or advance its use of competency identification and modeling technologies to its ultimate advantage. Also included are more than 300 overhead masters, detailed briefing presentation outlines, and the handouts for briefings that are typically needed to implement competency initiatives in an organization. In addition, comprehensive competency menus for leadership and individual contributor jobs found in organizations, “do's and don'ts,' explanations of “best practices,' a host of instruments, forms, competency card-sort activities, templates, and similar tools needed to implement credible competency practices, and an extensive bibliography, are valuable key components of this must-have resource! 600 pages/ two 3-ring binders and CD-ROM /Code...CTK /$295.00

Competency-Based Performance Improvement A vital resource book by competency expert David D. Dubois, Ph.D. This book presents a systematic approach to analyzing and improving performance in organizations. The most promising approaches to systematic strategic needs analysis, competency model development, curriculum design, learning intervention design and development, and program evaluation are explained. In this valuable resource, the author shows, step-by-step, how best to implement competency-based performance improvement programs. Selected Contents: A Model for Creating Competency-Based Performance Improvement in Organizations / Analysis, Assessment, and Planning in a Competency-Based Format / Concepts and Methods for Developing Competency Models / Creating a Competency-Based Curriculum Plan / Designing and Developing Competency-Based Learning Interventions. $39.95

Not Just Another Meeting: Performance Appraisal Training Video How To Training Points: How to plan for the appraisal and prepare appropriate documentation How to confront performance problems quickly and candidly How to keep conversation specific and avoid personal bias How to listen effectively and identify mutual goals. Easy-to-apply appraisal techniques for managers and supervisors. This video gives supervisors the tools they need to keep performance appraisals of their staf positive and productive. By watching ten videotaped performance appraisals, trainees learn how supervisors get off track, and how to prevent these mistakes when doing their own appraisals. Length: 22 Minutes, with Leader's Guide/ Code LC-NJAM/ For a Free Preview call: 973-427-3004 One Month Rental $325.00 Rental for 5 Days $165.00 Purchase for corporate $695.00 Purchase for Non-Profit and Education $556.00

Light the Fire: Leveraging Appraisals for Maximum Performance - A Video Workshop Managing and appraising employee performance is one of the most difficult parts of a manager’s or leader's job. This new video workshop teaches your managers and leaders how to write goals and objectives aligned with the goals of their departments and your organization to improve the appraisal process. Light the Fire dramatizes how the true power in managing and appraising performance lies in ongoing feedback, coaching and mentoring, and recognition between manager and employee. It spells out specific techniques to help managers improve communication, build motivation, and facilitate each employee's journey through the levels of performance development. Give managers the critical skills necessary to light the fire under every employee. Full of skill-building exercises, role-plays, and icebreakers, Light the Fire is organized into three units: Unit 1: Writing Effective Goals and Objectives Write goals that are specific, measurable, aggressive and realistic Put goals into action Share goals with others—and improve your chance of success Unit 2: Charting Success Understand your company's vision, strategies and priorities Align your department's goals with your company's vision, strategies and priorities Identify and develop your individual goals and objectives Prioritize the critical tasks needed to turn goals into action Unit 3: Coaching and Development Reap the benefits of a good coaching/mentoring relationship Apply the principles of successful development Set up the coaching/development meeting: Choose the time, location, purpose and agenda Ask good questions and really listen to the answers Get information to flow upward— from employee to manager 12 Ways Your Managers Will Benefit Get hands-on practice writing goals and objectives that are clear and brief. Reflect critically on their own goals and learn the importance of revising them. Understand how they fit into the organization’s vision and business strategies and priorities. Discover how goals and objectives align and build on each other. Set goals that reflect the entire scope of their jobs, not just part of their responsibilities. Become skilled at developing others—a vital skill to moving up. Become adept at sharing information in feedback situations. Select the right setting when planning a feedback conversation. Successfully manage the 3 types of ongoing feedback situations. Ask good open-ended questions to bring out important points for discussion. Feel more comfortable talking about difficult things with their managers. Help others be more positive about upcoming changes. The workshop includes the video Light the Fire: Leveraging Appraisals for Maximum Performance, Facilitator's Guide and five Participant Coursebooks. $795.00 A Set of 3 Additional Participant Coursebooks $38.95

Introducing: Janus Performance Management & Development System: Complete and Reproducible Janus is a fully integrated, fully reproducible, suite of materials that will help individuals, teams, and whole organizations set effective performance goals, build competency standards, and conduct an effective appraisal. The system provides a comprehensive, step-by-step approach for both appraisees and appraisers, with training material, coaching guides, forms, and templates, all contained within three volumes. Read more below... Click for Information on Janus Performance Management System

Janus Is a Competency-Based Performance Management System The Janus Performance Management System provides you with a comprehensive and best practice package of performance management material in one place. It is an extensive performance management support system for organizations to ensure that individuals and teams are focused and assisted in achieving personal and enterprise wide goals and objectives. Click for Information on Janus Performance Management System

The Legal Side of Evaluating Performance - Training Video Does your organization follow a specific procedure for evaluating performance? If not, your organization might be forced to defend itself against a wrongful discharge suit. Failure to communicate and document performance in an objective and consistent manner could lead to legal liability. This dramatic-style video shows viewers the biases that can taint the performance evaluation process, and how to avoid them. Make sure your managers are aware of the legal pitfalls of evaluating performance! How To Training Points: How to avoid personal bias in performance review How to communicate expectations and job standards How to appropriately discuss problems with employees Length: 19 min. Includes Training Leader's Guide. One week rental Code: LC-LSP-R $150.00 Purchase - Corporate $650.00 Purchase - Non-profit and Education $520.00 For a free preview call: 973-427-3004

Developing the High Performance Workplace Assessment By: David D. Dubois, Ph.D. , William J. Rothwell, Ph.D. This assessment includes 55 highly specific characteristics of a high performance workplace as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor, and provides employee respondents with a way to offer their perceptions about the importance and the present quality of each characteristic in the organization. Order Code: HR-HPV / $69.95

Building Performance Values Activity with Leader's and 5 Participants Guides By: Sharon A. Wulf, Ph.D. -- This stimulating new consensus - building activity will help your work groups and teams realistically analyze, discuss, and profile their values, strengths, and shortcomings. Using a collection of cards which contain statements about key business values (such as customer focus, performance measures, innovation, operational efficiency) participants work together to profile "the way it is" versus "the way it should be" for their team, group, or the entire organization. Any facilitator can use this engaging process to stimulate productive communication and help groups gain critical insights into issues and practices. Participants then plot the results on a graph and develop action plans to achieve their desired goals. Use this 2 hour activity in workshops on: Performance Management and Goal Setting Team Communication Planning, Reengineering, and Strategy This Training Package Includes: Comprehensive Leader's Guide with background interpretation, values profiles, lesson plans, and transparency masters / 42 Laminated Cards / Card Sorting Board / Five 32-page Participant Action Guides. $99.95

Let's T.A.L.K.: Handling the Difficult Performance Appraisal Managers and supervisors will no longer dread those difficult performance appraisals. T.A.L.K. will propel your company toward better job performance and a more productive work environment. Some managers dread all performance appraisals. But all managers dread some-the difficult ones. The employee who won't talk. The top performer who still needs to improve. Those who resent criticism or deny responsibility. andling difficult performance appraisals represents one of management's biggest headache and challenges. And yet, it's also the best way to help people get better at what they do. Your managers and supervisors will learn how to: Tell employees exactly how they see it Know to Ask for feedback from difficult direct-reports Discover ways to Lead toward a solution Keep at it until needed changes stick Key Learning Points: Performance Appraisals help people get better at what they do How a real give and take can uncover hidden motivations Ways to encourage top performers to do better How to overcome objections to 360-degree feedback Why on-going feedback reduces difficulties at the performance appraisal meeting The importance of staying focused on work-related issues How the T.A.L.K. method handles any difficult appraisal Using dramatic examples that illustrate many of a manager's worst performance appraisal nightmares, this video shows how the T.A.L.K. model leads employees to a mutually agreed upon solution to any workplace challenge. Program Includes: Facilitator Guide Reproducible Participant Materials Reproducible Self-Study Workbook 10 Pocket Reminder Cards Length: 17 min - VHS / Lease/Purchase: $795 / 30-Day Rental: $395 / 15-Day Rental: $235 DVD: Lease/Purchase: $995 / 30-Day Rental: $595 / 15-Day Rental: $395

Performance Appraisals: Getting Results (Training Video) How to get the best from your employees and tackle poor performance before it becomes a habit. Effective performance appraisals add value to your organization. They motivate your top employees to do even better. And they tell under-performers exactly what is expected and how to improve. Unfortunately, performance appraisals are often regarded as mere formalities. Reviews are sometimes skipped, or done late. Clear guidance falls by the wayside, and halfhearted work goes unchallenged. In this new video, you'll follow two dramatic story lines. One involves a small business, taking steps to formalize a review process for the first time. The other presents a large corporation, attempting to energize an existing system. Watch as two very different managers prepare for challenging review meetings--and see them apply skills that defuse tension and achieve the desired results. Viewers learn: Steps you should be taking in your appraisal process. The advantages of sticking to a regular schedule. The importance of fairness and consistency. The nuts and bolts of formats and record-keeping. Methods of motivating the top producers. How to deal with under-performers. Skills for the face-to-face review meeting. The value of employee feedback. This video shows that effective reviews can increase productivity, resolve problems, and improve work satisfaction-both for employees and their managers. Guarantee: Viewers will see the appraisal process as an effective management tool, and gain new skills to handle review meetings with confidence. Video type: VHS with an Instructor's Manual and one free study guide Length: 18 mins. Purchase for $146.95 Extra Study Guides come in packs of 5 for $54.95

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