Stop Stressing About Performance Appraisals

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to see it in a web browser. DREADING THE NEXT EMPLOYEE REVIEW CYCLE? THEN YOU NEED THIS COLLECTION. You're striving to turn around a problem employee. Trying to keep your team motivated. Working to prevent your star performer from jumping ship for a competitor. And it's only Tuesday. As a manager, dealing effectively and judiciously with the issues standing between your employees and optimal performance is critical for the success of your company—and your career. Yet, it can be a frustrating, time-consuming, angst-ridden administrative nightmare. Unless, of course, you've read the Performance Management Collection: Effective Techniques for Managers Looking to Get the Best from Their People. This three-volume collection from Harvard Business Review will give you insights into how you can create an ongoing system for providing feedback that will keep your team on track more effectively and easily than you may have thought possible. You'll learn practical, ready-to-use strategies and techniques for: Delivering performance appraisals that get real results Providing on-the-spot feedback that can resolve conflict, motivate your team and garner you top marks as a manager Effectively aligning employee strengths with larger corporate initiatives ORDER NOW Only $49* Product #8407BN Special Collection Get this special 3-volume collection for just $49*. A savings of more than 25% off the individual component prices. And it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee » BUY NOW The Performance Management Collection includes: How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals: Simple, Effective, Done Right By Dick Grote In this highly readable, engaging volume, prominent management consultant Dick Grote provides a concise, hands-on approach to succeeding at every task required by your company's performance appraisal and management process—from setting goals and creating performance plans to defining job responsibilities, assessing employees, determining compensation, retaining star players and solving people problems. And with a host of step-by-step instructions, examples, sample dialogues and suggested scripts, this is one book you'll want to keep within arm's reach at all times. Guide to Giving Effective Feedback Brimming with actionable advice on everything from delivering constructive real-time critiques to determining if your employee is ready for a promotion, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to master giving effective feedback. You'll learn how to incorporate ongoing feedback into your daily interactions with employees; highlight the impact of your employee's behavior on his or her team and the larger organization; coach your star performer to the next level; deliver productive criticism without generating anger or defensiveness; transform performance appraisals from dreaded meetings into catalysts for growth; and motivate your people even in challenging financial times. Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People By Edward M. Hallowell Bestselling author, psychiatrist and ADD expert Edward Hallowell draws on brain science, performance research and his own experience helping people maximize their potential to present a proven process for getting the most from your people. (1) Select: put the right people in the right job, and give them responsibilities that "light up" their brain; (2) Connect: strengthen interpersonal bonds among team members; (3) Play: help people unleash their imaginations at work; (4) Grapple and Grow: when the pressure's on, enable employees to achieve mastery of their work; (5) Shine: use the right rewards to promote loyalty and stoke your people's desire to excel. Order this special collection today and start getting better performance from your employees with less time, less hassle and less frustration than ever before—all at more than 25% off » BUY NOW To order by phone, call us toll-free at 800-668-6780 and mention referral code 01738. Outside the U.S. and Canada, call +1-617-783-7450. * Purchasers are responsible for all shipping charges, duties, taxes, brokerage fees, and/or import fees imposed by the country of import. Please check with your customs office for details. If you do not wish to receive special offer email messages from Harvard Business Review, click here. If you do not wish to receive any email messages from Harvard Business Review, click here. Copyright © 2013 Harvard Business School Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing | 60 Harvard Way | Boston, MA 02163 Customer Service: 800-545-7685 (+1-617-783-7600 outside the U.S. and Canada)