Performance Reviews

by Harvard Business Review, Mark Cabus (Reading)

Conducting performance reviews can be stressful. But these conversations are critical to your employees' development, allowing you to formally communicate with them about their accomplishments relative to their goals. Performance Reviews guides you through the basics. You'll learn to:



• Gather and analyze the right information
• Document your assessment
• Address performance problems
• Set challenging goals



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Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Management

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First published April 7, 2015

Reviews

[Dr. Appu Sasidharan (Dasfill) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Performance reviews are opportunities for growth if appropriately done by congratulating the workers who exceeded expectations and constructively criticizing those who need improvement based on their performance. It will improve the company's general performance and buttress the relationship between the employees and the company.

HBS tells us the importance of conducting performance reviews and the essential criteria we should consider while we do it. It also discusses the ideal frequency with which we should run the performance reviews.

"Honestly, assessing how you may have affected an employee can help you evaluate their performance more accurately and fairly."

[Summer Wright · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actionable and helpful and concise.

[Meghan Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very practical book - it provides actionable steps you can take in a range of circumstances, and gives useful templates for annual reviews, tracking performance, and setting goals. I appreciate how they spent as much time on how you should review a rockstar performers as they did with how to review low performers.

[Hamed Ghassemian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, direct, punctual, and comprehensive
The last part, poor performers is a life savor if you need to direct a colleague doing bad or poor
Several real hand on job points that can change your reviews completely specially about sandwiching the miss targets with good ones

[Julie Bayorek Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book reminded me that my workplace does generally follow what's universally a recommended path for performance reviews. It documents what employee and employers expectations should be during the process.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actionable and concise,but I would have enjoyed more.

[Eman Abdulaziz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Has good takeaways, on preparation, best way to provide feedback in different situations, and manage both high and low performers, that are absolutely useful.

[Robin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some useful tips on goal-setting and constructive feedback, but not particularly empathetic.

[Teerasak · Rating 5 out of 5]

ไม่ว่าจะใช้เวลาอ่านกี่นาที หนังสือเล่มนี้มีประโยชน์ใช้งานได้จริง เรื่องที่ดูธรรมดาคนทำงานทำ Performance Review กันเป็นปกติแต่น้อยนักจะเข้าใจแก่นของการทำจริงๆจังๆ ลองอ่านแล้วเปลี่ยนตัวเองดูจากที่ทำแค่ผิวขอไปที ลองใส่ใจลงไปใหม่

[Juan Castro · Rating 5 out of 5]

More like 50 minutes manager series

It took me 50 mins, so I was wondering and taking notes, or I read too slow for Harvard's standards :0
Anyway, after receiving performance reviews for years, you learn a thing or two. Heuristics. But either a manager or just an employee, you should look into this guide, it'll become handy for your career. Good read. Good buy.

[Jaime · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really useful although it took me more than 20 minutes to read it.

[Randy · Rating 4 out of 5]

useful and straight forward advice to improve the review process. valuable checklists included throughout to consider if your natural tendencies are comprehensive.