How to Manage Performance: 24 Lessons for Improving Performance [Paperback]

Robert Bacal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2007

"How to Manage Performance" explains how to apply and stimulate greater productivity in the workplace. The reader will gain invaluable tips and pointers for achieving performance levels once thought unattainable. While performance itself may be a wide-ranging, difficult-to-quantify word, the results of improved performance are easy to measure and can mean the difference between competitive strength and vulnerability. The reader will discover techniques that can be used to inspire breakthrough performance, infusing both employees and the reader's career with renewed commitment and success in "How to Manager Performance".

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HOW TO MANAGE PERFORMANCE

24 Lessons for Improving Performance

Dramatically increased productivity is the primary driver of growth in today's workplace. But productivity improvements don't occur in a vacuum--they require knowledge, action, and a commitment to performance on the part of frontline supervisors and managers.

How to Manage Performance provides managers with goal-focused, commonsense techniques to stimulate employee productivity in any environment. This results-based guidebook features 24 invaluable strategies and action steps you can use to communicate the performance you expect from--and the incentives you can offer to--high-performing employees. Let this concise, dynamic book show you how to:

• Manage performance
• Work with employees
• Set performance incentives
• Align employee goals
• Conduct effective reviews
• Identify causes
• Recognize success
• Manage conflict with grace
• Document performance
• Develop employees

While performance itself may be a wide-ranging, difficult-to-quantify word, the results of improved performance are easy to measure--and can mean the difference between competitive strength and vulnerability. Discover techniques you can use to inspire breakthrough performance, and infuse both your employees and your career with renewed commitment and success, in How to Manage Performance.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Robert Bacal (Madison, WI) is the CEO of Bacal and Associates, a management training and consulting firm.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill (March 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0077116232
• ISBN-13: 978-0077116231
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,235,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #52 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Business & Investing > Industries & Professions > Human Resources & Personnel Management

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