Practical and Effective Performance Management. How excellent
leaders manage and improve their staff, employees and teams by
evaluation, appraisal and leadership for top performance and career
development. For line managers, team leaders and supervisors to
enhance their performance management skills. Effective, flexible
and creative performance management lies at the heart of excellent
leadership; which creates successful and innovative businesses.
This book is aimed at people who are line managers, team managers
or supervisors who really want to improve the way that they lead
and encourage their staff to perform at their best. It gives a
practical approach to solving real workplace issues with a step by
step guide to actions that will encourage excellent performance.
This book is aimed at line managers, team leaders and supervisors
who want to improve their team's performance by working towards
excellence with all members of their team. The book is accompanied
by a downloadable action planning workbook to help managers plan
and record their choices. This can be found at
http://www.uolearn.com 5 key ideas to help you understand
performance management. 4 step model for effective performance
management in real world situations. A large, wide ranging choice
of over 40 levers, tools that managers can use to improve
performance and opportunities in their teams. Key practical
research on performance management in organizations. How to
encourage the people who are already performing at their best and
how to help those who are struggling to achieve excellence.
Practical exercises and action planning for you to develop your
leadership skills. A toolbox of ideas and actions to help you
become an excellent leader. Praise for the performance management
book. 'It gave me practical tips which I can implement.' 'It gave
me the opportunity to focus and take on board information while
reflecting on my own practice.' 'I am really impressed with the
amount of information that is in this book. It feels well
researched and has been written by someone who has trained this in
the real world.' 'Steve's approach is to look holistically at
performance management - addressing all aspects of the performance
spectrum and linking models and theory with practical examples from
his extensive experience of working with organizations. Steve makes
performance management accessible and understandable, helping
managers to clearly identify how they can get the best out of their
people.' 'This should be rolled out to all managers in my
organization.' 'I wish I'd had this book 15 years ago. It is so
well written and has loads of practical advice for everyday
situations. I found it really helped me to reflect on my skills as
a manager.' Excellent and useful book.' Head of IT, Large
International Company. Steve Walker is a skilled and experienced
trainer, consultant and communicator. In a varied career he has
worked in the criminal justice system, in universities, for a small
consultancy firm and for the Lord Chancellor's department. Over the
last 15 years he has run his own consultancy, providing successful
help to a large range of organizations. In his work with
organizations and individuals Steve focuses on issues around
leadership, strategy, culture, performance, development and
teamwork, using a reflective and practical approach that brings the
best out of people. He is known for helping managers disentangle
knotty leadership issues and dilemmas, using relevant research,
experience, fresh ideas and clear analysis and sound communication.
In his work Steve's goal is to help people to work out specific
actions that they can take back to their real world and apply with
confidence, and he has a strong and successful track record in
this. This is a book with a difference, blending tried and tested
ideas with rugged, real world pragmatism to help all managers to
work on and improve the way that they manage the performance of
their staff and their teams. Steve Walker is a skilled and
experienced trainer, consultant and communicator. In a varied
career he has worked in the criminal justice system, in
universities, for a small consultancy firm and for the Lord
Chancellor's department. Over the last 15 years he has run his own
consultancy, providing successful help to a large range of
organizations, big and small, across sectors and covering a variety
of projects as well as developing other businesses. He is also
experienced in one to one coaching with managers. In his work with
organizations and individuals Steve focuses on issues around
leadership, strategy, culture, performance, development and
teamwork, using a reflective and practical approach that brings the
best out of people. He is known for helping managers disentangle
knotty leadership issues and dilemmas, using relevant research,
experience, fresh ideas and clear analysis and sound communication.
In his work Steve's goal is to help people to work out specific
actions that they can take back to their real world and apply with
confidence, and he has a strong and successful track record in
this. He is committed to an effective leadership approach that also
focuses on developing people and treating them with respect and
integrity. Steve has covered performance management at a number of
levels, from working with senior managers on improving performance
across the whole organization to helping team leaders with everyday
front line performance problems and opportunities. Steve always
takes a pragmatic approach to his work on performance management.
He makes sure that the advice and help that he gives are useful in
the everyday situations that managers find themselves. At the same
time he works with people in a considered and thoughtful way, using
up to date research to inform advice and actions. Steve is also
careful to take into account all of the complications in any issue
to make sure that solutions stick: no quick easy wins that lead
back to even worse problems. For some time Steve has been keen to
convert this work into a book on performance management that
captures his and hundreds of managers' experiences and then goes on
to offer real ways to tackle what can be horribly difficult issues.
This is a book with a difference, blending tried and tested ideas
with rugged, real world pragmatism to help all managers to work on
and improve the way that they manage the performance of their staff
and their teams.
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