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Replacing the Performance Review

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Tim Baker There is considerable and contestable debate in blogosphere and elsewhere about the viability of the performance review. Another group thinks that with some modifications, the performance review will be fine. The End’ for the traditional performance review but just the beginning for a groundbreaking new model.”.

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Why We Hate Performance Reviews and How to Improve Them

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Everyone hates performance reviews for three reasons that we just need to accept. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out why and how: Why We Hate Performance Reviews and How to Improve Them. However, there are three relatively simple fixes that can make the process a lot less painful.

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How to Prepare for a Performance Review so it won’t Feel Like a Root Canal : Employee Version

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The annual employee performance review is an important opportunity to get feedback from your manager in order to make sure your performance is meeting expectations and to learn what you need to do to improve. career advice performance appraisals performance review process'

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7 Ways to Prepare for a Performance Review so it won’t Feel Like a Root Canal: Manager Version

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The annual employee performance review is an essential human resource process for documenting how well an employee performed throughout the year, an opportunity to provide feedback to the employee, and serves as a springboard for setting performance and development objectives for the coming year.

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Playbook for a New Leader’s First 90 Days on the Job

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In preparation for these meetings, review the organizational chart, form a cursory understanding of their roles and projects, and read their last performance review and résumé, if they’re on your team. Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review. 2) What motivates you?

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What a Success Plan Is (and Isn’t)

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A success plan is much more than an annual performance review. Annual performance reviews focus only on what’s born out of hard skills and tend to boil your people down to metrics around what they’ve done for your company. But first, we have to define success. And that can be a moving target. What Is a Success Plan?

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About.com has a new Management expert!

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Here''s a new article that I just posted at About that you may like: The Top 10 Performance Appraisal Blunders a Manager can Make. About.com management performance appraisals performance management performance reviews'