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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could see what you were buying before you bought it. Not easy with electronic downloads, but we can have the next best thing!
Appraisals: Learn How To Love Them
If you’re one of those managers who dreads the annual appraisal, this article is written specially for you. Just learn these 7 simple steps and you’ll become the biggest convert to appraisals.
Employee Performance Reviews — Dealing With Disagreements
What do you do when an employee disagrees with something you’ve written on their performance review? How can you prepare for this and deal with it effectively?
Start by listening to figure out the source of the disagreement. Is it an issue of fact (you wrote that the employee received a customer satisfaction score of 79 but the employee says that his score was actually 83), or is a matter of judgment (you wrote that the employee’s customer service skills were unsatisfactor…
Employee Performance Reviews – Dealing With Disagreements
Most of the time, you have a reasonably good understanding of the areas where disagreements are likely to pop up in the course of the performance review discussion
Get Your Performance Appraisal Discussions Off To A Good Start (Part 1)
Too often, participants in performance appraisal meetings seem awkward and uncomfortable. To some extent, that’s unavoidable — it’s always a bit awkward for one person to deliver a formal assessment of the quality of work performed by another.
But following some simple suggestions can eliminate a lot of the awkwardness in performance appraisal meetings. Here are a couple of tips that will help put both players at ease. (In Part 2 of this article, I’ll provide some addition…
Get Your Performance Appraisal Discussions Off to a Good Start Part 1
Following some simple suggestions can eliminate a lot of the awkwardness in performance appraisal meetings.
Ten Tips For Creating A Terrific Employee Appraisal System
Face the facts: Creating a new performance appraisal system is a difficult undertaking. It’s even more difficult if the organization doesn’t have a logical, well-tested, step-by-step process to follow in developing their new procedure.
Based on my experience in helping dozens of companies create performance appraisal systems that actually work, here are ten tips that will help any company create a new performance evaluation system that will provide useful data and be enth…
How About Some Customer Service. Please!!
Communication is one of the most important industries in the world. People have a need to talk, to get in touch with their friends and family, no matter where they are in the world. We started with letters sent with any individual traveling in that direction, which progressed to the postal system. With the advent of the Internet, we exchanged snail mail for email and later instant messengers
Somehow though, it just wasn’t enough. We needed to hear their voices not just rea…
Adsense That Works
People unconsciously ignore ads, not because they aren’t interested in the products or services that are being offered, but a natural instinct to focus on the material they’re reading and block out “distractions”. Remember: they’re on the web to look for information. That can be a particular song they want to download, an article on their favorite celebrity, or a chicken recipe they can cook for dinner. They’re concentrating on that issue, and their minds are quickly filterin…