Leadership Offense
Description
Ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items right at your fingertips to organize and streamline employee reviews, create clear and effective career development plans, and monitor performance year-round, from the leading voice in HR expertise.
Whether you're an HR professional or a manager, turn to this great tool for scripts and templates you can apply immediately to your employee reviews.
Chock full of wisdom from Paul Falcone, a renowned expert on appraisal, motivation, and professional and career development, this book:
- Provides sample phrasing for key performance areas to drastically reduce the time it takes to complete multiple employee reviews.
- Offers language to use for both positive and negative evaluations that offer concrete and constructive feedback.
- Includes many examples of behaviors, strengths, and opportunities to document when writing any type of evaluation or performance appraisal.
Mid-year, end-of-year, and all appraisals in between, this handy, easy-reference resource helps turn a task many managers dislike and avoid-giving performance reviews-into a much more succinct, positive opportunity that puts your employees on the path to success.
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Paul Falcone is principal of Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Consulting, LLC, specializing in management and leadership training, executive coaching, international keynote speaking, and facilitating corporate offsite retreats. He is the former CHRO of Nickelodeon Animation Studios and has held senior-level HR positions with Paramount Pictures, Time Warner, and City of Hope. He has extensive experience in entertainment, healthcare/biotech, and financial services, including in international, nonprofit, and union environments.
Paul is the author of seventeen books, many of which have been ranked as #1 Amazon bestsellers in the categories of human resources management, business and organizational learning, labor and employment law, business mentoring and coaching, business conflict resolution and mediation, communication in management, and business decision-making and problem-solving. His books have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Turkish and have sold in excess of 750,000 copies worldwide.
Paul is a certified executive coach through the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching program, a long-term columnist for SHRM.org and HR Magazine, an adjunct faculty member in UCLA Extension's School of Business and Management, and a member of the board of directors of the American Management Association. He is an accomplished keynote presenter, in-house trainer, and webinar facilitator in the areas of hiring, talent and performance management, leadership development, workplace ethics, and effective leadership communication.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1. Creating a Coaching Culture
- 1. The Leader-as-Coach Model: A New Cultural Construct for Today's Workplace
- 2. Coaching Leadership Versus Traditional Management
- 3. Employee Engagement: A Critical Starting Point
- 4. Identifying High-Potential Talent to Develop Your Leadership Bench
- 5. Moving the Middle: A Smart Approach to Team Development
- 6. Are You a Coachable Leader? Assessing Your Own Leadership Style
- Part 2. Performance Management: Real-Time Feedback, Quarterly Goal Check-Ins, and Annual Reports
- 7. Limitations of Historic Performance Review Systems
- 8. Creating an Achievement Mindset: Goal Setting and Progress Measurement
- 9. The Way Forward: Real-Time Feedback
- 10. Quarterly Reports and Check-Ins: Coaching Windows of Opportunity
- 11. The Critical Nature of Self-Evaluations in Preparation for the Annual Review
- 12. Gaining Agreement on Rating Definitions and Overall Scores Before Drafting Performance Reviews
- 13. The Annual Review Meeting: Objective Feedback Plus Renewed Engagement
- 14. Performance Review Documentation Tips: Strengthening Your Written Message
- 15. Addressing Today's Critical Competencies: Innovation, Remote Work, and Change and Agility
- 16. When Your Performance Appraisal Template Doesn't Quite Get You Where You Want to Go
- 17. Creating an Effective Performance Improvement Plan
- Part 3. On Motivation and Professional and Career Development
- 18. Motivating Staff Without Money: The Holy Grail of Workplace Engagement
- 19. The Nature of Motivation: Five Steps for Quick Turnarounds
- 20. Salvaging Restless Top Performers: Appealing to Personal Career Development Needs
- 21. "Stay Interviews" Trounce Counteroffers Every Time
- 22. If You're Going to Make a Counteroffer, Make Sure You Do It Right
- 23. Recognizing Burnout and Reengaging Your Employees Based on Their Individual Needs
- 24. Putting Your Employees First: Even Above Your Customers and Shareholders
- Index
- About the Author
