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    Key Books


    Power Freaks: Dealing With Them in the Workplace or Anyplace


    The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond


    How to Manage Your Boss: Developing the Perfect Working Relationship

    Search Results for "performance"


    How to Talk to your Boss about your Career Goals

    "Whether you had a great or a bad performance review for the last year, now is the time to ensure a more positive one for this year. Plan and prepare to meet with your boss on goal planning for the current year. Most of us just chuck it under the carpet or roll our eyes, wanting our best to delay as much as possible."

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: careerbright.blogspot.com


    10 rules to manage your boss

    "The relationship with your boss is probably the most important relationship you have at work.

    Boss management can stimulate better performance, improve your working life, job satisfaction, and workload. Give your boss a hand and reap the rewards."

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: rediff.com


    Workplace Bullying: What Can You Do?

    "It's hard to pinpoint how it started. Maybe it was when you saw your manager's assistant noting those rare occasions when you came in 10 minutes late. Or maybe it was the time the boss half-jokingly trashed your performance -- in front of her higher-up."

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: wlb.monster.com


    Dealing With Incompetent Leaders

    "As a mid-level employee, you’ve been working for the ACME Company, a manufacturing firm, for the past two years. Your job performance has been solid, and on occasion, even praiseworthy. However due to the current economic conditions – poor profit earnings, massive layoffs and company restructuring, you now find yourself working for a new boss. Ordinarily reporting to a new leader would not pose a real problem but this time it feels different -- management practices have changed. The team environment has been transformed from one of true collaboration, honest dialogue and a commitment to problem solving to one where backstabbing, finger pointing and plain fear are the norms. Congratulations – you are now under the control of an “incompetent” leader!"

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: ebooksnbytes.com


    US Companies Lose $105 Billion To Poor People Performance

    "Worldwide companies talk about people being their biggest asset yet they are not taking enough time to ensure they effectively select and utilize their single most important factor – their employees. Hundreds of billions are wasted as businesses squander the talent and potential of their workforce and fail to match the right people to the right jobs."

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: hrhub.com


    Resolving Workplace Conflict: 4 Ways To A Win-Win Solution

    "The effects of conflict in the workplace are widespread and costly. Its prevalence, as indicated by three serious studies, shows that 24-60% of management time and energy is spent dealing with anger. This leads to decreased productivity, increased stress among employees, hampered performance, high turnover rate, absenteeism and at its worst, violence and death."

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: webpronews.com


    Blindsided By The Boss In Your Annual Review

    "The boss just shredded your job performance in an annual review. What's worse, the bad news was a surprise. How do you handle it?"

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: nytimes.com


    How to Keep Cool In Performance Reviews

    "Few managers enjoy sitting down with their subordinates, one on one, for a candid evaluation. The situation is even more stressful for subordinates. Which aspects of their performance are important? How will they be appraised? The entire process seems vague, subjective -- and hence, intimidating."

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: careerjournal.com


    The Typical Cost Of Bullying

    "Few employers understand how a bully impairs productivity, hinders performance, and damages profitability. This page looks at a typical example of the effect of one serial bully on one department's performance."

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: bullyonline.org


    Illustrations of Psychological Violence: Bullying

    An exellent overview of psychologica tactics used against people organized into three groups: violations of civil norms, policies or laws; performance prevention tactics, undermining; and tactics of control, unrelated to getting work done.

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: workdoctor.com


    Boss To Self: How to Build a Better Me

    "If you're an employee, you can't build a better boss. But if you're the boss, you can improve your boss skills and boss performance. Here are seven steps to building a better you"

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: fastcompany.com


    How To Give Good Feedback

    "We can't teach you the one right way to provide - or receive - feedback. But our program does offer five action-oriented principles to improve your performance with performance reviews."

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    Evaluate This! The New Performance Review

    "For many managers, writing performance appraisals is akin to root canal—only more painful. It shouldn’t be. Here are tips for improving your employee evaluation process."

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: hbswk.hbs.edu


    Effective Performance Reviews

    "Effective managers address staff performance throughout the year, providing positive acknowledgment and necessary coaching and feedback to address problematic areas or issues. The formal performance review, then, should contain few, if any, surprises."

    Email Link  |  iFaveIt  |  Comments  |  Read: management.monster.com


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