Powerful Performance Management

Introduction: Complete, Honest, and Timely Performance Reviews

It is critical that you, as a leader, have frequent “crucial conversations” with your employees to let them know at all times where they stand. Positive Performance Management (PPM) is based on the following belief: Leaders and their employees must strive to make performance reviews complete, honest, and timely. In the course of executing PPM, leaders hold themselves to the highest standard, always being fair and honest, and never injuring a person's sense of dignity and self-worth.

Ultimately, by holding yourself to this high standard, you as a leader will grant employees the free will to make whatever decisions are in their best interests, whether such decisions involve re-committing ...