Performance Management For Dummies is the definitive guide to infuse performance management with your organization's strategic goals and priorities. It provides the nuts and bolts of how to define and measure performance in terms of what employees do (i.e., behaviors) and the outcome of what they do (i.e., results) — both for individual employees as well as teams.

After 30 years of conducting research and working with organizations on talent management, I decided it was time to summarize key research findings into an accessible and practical HOW-TO guide. I chose the For Dummies series as the perfect outlet.

My book Performance Management For Dummies is now available for pre-order at https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Ma...

Because you are reading this, you probably already know that performance management is broken. You hate wasting time dealing with “HR cops” who ask you to fill out useless performance evaluation forms. And, you surely hate those dreaded soul-crushing annual performance review meetings. I don’t need to tell you, because you already know, that performance management is not even close to living up to its promise of turning human capital into a source of competitive advantage.

Interestingly, though, opposite to media headlines such as “Performance Evaluation is Dead” and “The End of Performance Reviews,” performance management is not going away. On the contrary, many companies such as GE, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Adobe, and Accenture are transitioning from performance appraisal (i.e., once-a-year evaluation and review) to performance management (i.e., ongoing evaluation and developmental feedback). In other words, performance management is becoming a normal, routine, built-in, and ever-present aspect of work in 21st-century organizations, particularly considering demographic trends about Gen X and Gen Y employees who are digital natives, demand ongoing feedback, and thrive when given growth opportunities. So, if you want to be a successful manager, you need to be a successful performance management leader. This means you need to have the knowledge and skills to manage the performance of your employees. And, this is exactly what this book will teach you how to do.

The book teaches you how to gather and use data to understand if the performance management system is working and where fixes may be needed. Overall, the book teaches you how to design and implement a state-of-the-science performance management system.

And, if you don’t manage employees yet, you can give a copy of this book to your managers because what they learn in this book will help them manage your performance and make your own job a lot more satisfying and rewarding.

In this book, you’ll find a new multi-step, cyclical process to help you keep track of your employees' work, identify where they need to improve and how, and ensure they're growing with the organization—and helping the organization succeed. Plus, it’ll show managers to C-Suites how to use performance management not just as an evaluation tool but, just as importantly, to help employees grow and improve on an ongoing basis so they are capable and motivated to support the organization’s strategic objectives.

* Understand if your performance management system is working
* Make fixes where needed
* Get performance evaluation forms, interview protocols, and scripts for feedback meetings
* Grasp why people make some businesses more successful than others
* Make performance management a useful rather than painful management tool

Get ready to define performance, measure it, help employees improve it, and align employee performance with the strategic goals and priorities of your organization.

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