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Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals : Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Goals for Any Performance Plan or Review [Paperback]

Douglas Max (Author), Robert Bacal (Author)
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007143383X 978-0071433839 March 2, 2004 1

Set the bar for outstanding performance

A follow-up to the top-selling Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, this book provides managers with phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports. A timesaving job aid for any performance review or plan, the book:

  • Makes it easy for managers to set high performance goals for executives, management, or non-managers employees
  • Includes many categories of goals, from revenue and productivity goals to quality and personal development goals • Facilitates the goal-setting process across the organization
  • Includes a guide to writing a performance plan for any employee

Featuring hundreds of ready-to-use performance goals, this practical job aid makes it simple for managers to set the bar for outstanding future results.



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Set Effective Performance Goals for Your People--Just Look Up the Right Phrase!

In their previously published, top-selling book Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, Robert Bacal and Douglas Max described past employee performance. In Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals, Bacal and Max go a step further with hundreds of precisely-worded future performance goals. Use these "perfect phrases" in the context of an annual performance review to let your people know what is expected of them in the coming year, or use them in regular "performance planning" meetings to:

  • Focus your people on the most important parts of their jobs.
  • Clearly communicate your expectations
  • Align employee goals with organizational priorities
  • Improve productivity and morale in the workplace
  • Reduce disagreements during performance reviews
  • Raise the bar for performance

You will find ready-to-use performance goals for both managers and employees, in many categories including sales and profit goals, quality and productivity goals, on-time performance personal development goals, and much more. This practical job aid makes it easy for managers to raise the performance bar, and focus their people on the organization's top priorities.

About the Author

Douglas Max is managing director of LR Communications, a firm that conducts on-site seminars in writing and presentation skills. He lives in Berkley Heights, New Jersey.

Robert Bacal is author of Managing Performance and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Consulting. His performance management website, work911.com, is visited by thousands of people every month. He lives in Winnipeg.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 175 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 2, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 007143383X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071433839
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals - not so perfect, February 16, 2006
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My reason for purchasing the book was to have a resouce for our employees to use as they are writing their goal statements based on the SMART goal matrix. I did not find it as helpful as I was hoping in demonstrating what a good, specific, measurable goals looks like. I think it gives you a few beginning words but should have expanded more within the examples.
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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals, August 7, 2004
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When I order this book, I thought I will get lots of ready-to-use "Goals" which I can esay to set my subordinate's Goals. But I am very disappoint. Lots of Goals listing in the books are actually the working items not goals. Like "Deposit completed backups...", "Schedule all planned shutdown...". Therefore this book help me to setup the work items of my subordinate not set the goals.

Sam
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4.0 out of 5 stars BJH, February 22, 2008
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This is a very helpful book when you need to write your own perfomance objectives. It is also useful if you are a manger writing objectives for your staff.
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"Before we start you on the path to writing better performance goals and before we explain how to use this book to help improve both individual work performance and overall performance of your work unit or company, we need to place performance goals within " Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sales training, better performance goals, setting performance goals
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Information Technology, Customer Communication, Human Resources, Using This Book, Staff Retention, Labor Relations, Customer Service Improvements, Write Better Performance Goals, Managing Current Sales, Generating New Sales, Work Environment, Policy Development, Staff Satisfaction, Organizational Results, Getting the Most, Sales Strategy Development
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