Management in Practice : Candid Approach on Underperformance: Books

Are your employees meeting their goals? Is their work improving over time? Understanding where your employees are succeeding - and falling short - is a pivotal part of ensuring you have the right talent to meet organizational objectives. In order to work with your people and effectively monitor their progress, you need a system in place. The "HBR Guide to Performance Management" provides a new multi-step, cyclical process to help you keep track of your employees' work, identify where they need to improve, and ensure they're growing with the organization.

Master the power of influence and persuasion. What if you could instantly boost your capability to influence, motivate and connect with people? How could it increase your productivity, team culture and bottom line? Better yet, what if you could influence yourself to achieve greater success

Pam Jones explains how the performance management approach has changed and how it fits into an organisation. She provides tools, tips and techniques to take advantage of its benefits when allied to teams and teamworking practices.

Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management addresses all areas of performance management, from performance pay and giving feedback to managing underperformers and having difficult conversations, so organizations can optimize staff performance. This fully updated and restructured 6th edition analyzes traditional as well as the latest developments in performance management including the shift from ratings and annual reviews.

This thoroughly revised second edition shifts the entire focus of performance management to performance improvement and talent management. This book will help help in enhancing the performance of individuals, dyads, and teams for achieving organizational excellence.

When not handled correctly, performance appraisals can turn into nerve-wracking confrontations. If employees and managers aren't on the same page about expectations and performance, the working relationship can be seriously harmed. Productive Performance Appraisals gives readers all the easy-to-use tools they need to conduct an effective review

This book shows how the One Minute management techniques can be applied on a day-to-day basis to improve performance, productivity and profits. Their message is that there is no 'quick fix'. The keys to successful management are conviction and consistency.

In How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals, Dick Grote provides a concise, hands-on guide to succeeding at every step of the performance appraisal process—no matter what performance management system your organization uses. Through step-by-step instructions, examples, do-and-don’t bullet lists, sample dialogues, and suggested scripts, he shows you how to handle every appraisal activity from setting goals and defining job responsibilities to evaluating performance quality and discussing the performance evaluation face-to-face.

Cet ouvrage traite du management interculturel à travers l’étude des styles de management, des modes d’organisation et des politiques de développement des entreprises.

This book brings together theories and research on team development, team functioning, managing teams, team growth and more! It also describes tools and techniques that can be used to raise the performance levels of teams and help them to function optimally.

Offers realistic sample dialogues managers can use to facilitate clear, direct interactions with their employees, helping them sidestep potential awkwardness and meet issues head-on. This practical, solution-oriented book walks readers through some of the most common as well as the most serious employee problems they are likely to encounter. Covering

In Overload, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how the intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to burnout, attrition, and underperformance. "Flexible" work policies and corporate lip service about "work-life balance" don't come close to fixing the problem. Complete with advice about ways that employees, managers, and corporate leaders can begin to question and fix one of today's most serious workplace problems, Overload is an inspiring account about how rethinking and redesigning work could transform our lives and companies.

Written for coaches, consultants, leadership development directors, and anyone working in or with teams, The Hedgehog Effect begins with an in-depth analysis of what teams and groups are all about.

With the assistance of this guide, every manager can effectively appraise employee performance. Here are over two thousand professionally written phrases which will clearly describe job performance. This valuable guide will make the completion of performance appraisals fast, easy and accurate.

Difficult Conversations is the definitive work on handling unpleasant exchanges. It teaches us to work through them by understand that we're not engaging in one dialogue but three: the "what happened" conversation (what do we believe was said and done), the "feelings" conversation (the emotional impact on everyone involved), and the "identity" conversation (what does this mean for everyone's opinion of themselves).

Häufige Krankheiten, Burn-Outs, Suchtproblematiken und konstant schlecht arbeitende Low-Performer können Anzeichen struktureller Probleme sein, die nachhaltig gelöst werden müssen. Hierfür müssen Unternehmensleitung, Führungskräfte und Betriebsräte unter Ausnutzung der bestehenden Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten die richtigen Rahmenbedingungen schaffen.

The book provides a tool kit for managers tasked with raising performance and sustaining motivation. The book presents the principles of solution focussed thinking in a language that is readily understandable by managers, and shows how those principles can be applied to a range of issues which managers may find themselves facing as willing or enforced coaches.

The authors show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-makingand action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or hype. This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held - but ultimately flawed - management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance.

There is perhaps no more dreaded managerial task than communicating with an employee about a disciplinary problem. But when performance problems become apparent, you can't just ignore them. You need to deal with them head-on. Not sure of the best way to handle a particular situation? the guidebook covers dozens of problems likely to occur in the workplace.

Recadrer constitue un acte de management fort, pour rappeler les règles ou repréciser les objectifs, mais pas seulement ... C'est aussi l'occasion de redonner confiance, réorienter et remotiver le salarié ! Sur le terrain, c'est souvent un exercice difficile pour les managers, qui souhaitent préserver une bonne ambiance de travail et prévenir les tensions et les conflits. Alors, comment mener un entretien de recadrage sans démotiver votre collaborateur, tout en lui redonnant du sens et du plaisir à l'action? Possible? Impossible? C'est ce que l'auteur vous invite à découvrir.

This book presents practical communication and management strategies any manager can use to effectively influence employee performance. Through four critical mind-sets and a conversation model, this book offers tangible solutions for tackling critical workplace discussions with poise and professionalism. This book will help you lead performance-related conversations with confidence and create a culture of workplace accountability.

Apprenez à conduire avec efficacité vos entretiens annuels et permettez à vos collaborateurs d'augmenter leur réussite en leur apportant l'aide nécessaire. Ce guide pratique vous aidera à construire un dialogue de qualité qui se distinguera d'un entretien formel et vous permettra d'améliorer la performance de votre activité.

This book gives you the language to empower, engage and develop your employees. Filled with hundreds of words and phrases you can use in virtually every coaching situation, this go-to guide provides everything you need for: onboarding and training; conducting performance reviews; setting employee goals; coaching high and low performers; creating powerful teams; building strong relationships.

Managing the Unmanageable will give you practical tips and proven techniques to show you how to: Understand what's driving your unmanageable employee. Evaluate the costs and benefits of turning him around. Enroll her in that effort, and help her become a valued member of your team. Guide all your employees to greater innovation, cooperation, and effectiveness. Communicate effectively with each of the three generations in today's workplace

The inspiring story of one man who, with no formal business experience, took on the entrenched powers and turned an industry on its head. Framed as a general management book, Driving Excellence offers tried and tested principles to help organisations succeed. The book's message is simple: even the most challenged company, non-profit or public agency can excel - but only if managers lead courageously and adopt principles that meld private sector techniques with the unwavering stewardship of the public good.

Giving an employee a poor performance review is never an easy task. Fails to Meet Expectations teaches managers how to document, write, and deliver a less-than-satisfactory performance evaluation.

Managing Difficult People gives you the tools you need to cope with all kinds of difficult employees. From sneaky slackers to resident office tormentors, this handy guide cuts to the chase, helping you identify and deal with specific personality types such as The Bully, The Complainer or Whiner, The Procrastinator, The Know-It-All, The Silent Type, The Social Butterfly, The "No People Skills" Person, The Rookie, The Overly Sensitive Person, and The Manipulator.