Mentor’s Message: Why Appraise Performance?

As a manager, you need to regularly appraise your employees’ job performance. By doing so, you can reinforce stellar performance as well as help your direct reports improve subpar performance. And that generates important value for your organization, in the form of higher productivity and more positive morale throughout your team.

But appraising performance isn’t easy. Many managers, for example, find it difficult to deliver constructive feedback to an employee whose performance is less than satisfactory. This book helps you master the art of performance appraisal—from preparing for an appraisal meeting and conducting the conversation to recording what happened and following up.

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