Performance Appraisal Skills Course

Learn how to improve performance with effective appraisals

Dear Reader

Performance appraisals can either help you  or hinder you, depending on your appraisal skills effectiveness

As a manager it is vitally important that you can find ways to increase prductivity and results of your team. Using our tried and tested methods for carryng out effective performance appraisals you will be well on the way to guaranteeing the results you desire

Time after time you hear of staff making comments such as 'appraisals are a waste of time'or 'our apraisal system does not work' or the classic that I hate hearing is 'it doesn't matter-it's only a paper exercise.

 Well nothing could be further from the truth.

This appraisal skills course will equip you with all the necessary skills you need to become an effective appraiser, you will dscover the secrets to carrying out effective appraisals and you will have a guaranteed blue print for ensuring you achieve the results you need

Effective appraisals gives the employer the opportunity to discuss and agree objectives, to review performance and be made aware of difficulties. While at the same time it offers the employee the opportunity of discussing their performance, knowing how they are performing and allowing them the opportunity to discuss their role and ideas for achieving agreed objectives

An appraisal is not a stick to beat some one with, it is not a chance to get even and it is not a paper exercise that management insist is done every December.

That does not mean that an appraisal should not highlight development needs and the importance of productivty needing to increase, after all the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement

An appraisal if done right, is the best opportunity you have to motivate, encourage, coach and improve productivity for the individuals in your team.

There is no such thing as a bad appraisal system, but there are definately managers with poor appraisal skills which can lead the employees to believe that the appraisal system is bad.

On the other hand there are managers who are effective at carrying out performance appraisals and the staff of these managers look forward to the apraisal as an opportunity to discuss thir job role and performance in an open and honest fashion

The bottom line is appraisals are a fabulous tool to manage and increase performance but only if they are in the hands of a manager who has discovered the secrets to carrying out effective appraisals, such as those taught on this course

If you wish to improve your staffs productivity, gain commitment to objectives and motvate your team, the first place to start is here. Our 365 day no quibble guarantee means you have no risk and nothing to lose by learning these skills now

You will learn

How to assess your management and leadership style

How your style impacts on others

How to plan and prepare for appraisal meetings

How to structure appraisal meetings

How to conduct effective meetings

How to listen and learn actively

How to assess performance fairly

How to be fair honest and open

How to deliver positve feedback

How to effectively deliver negative feedback

How to use self appraisal effectively

How to motivate during the appraisal meeting

How to deal with poor performance

How to ensure there are no surprises

How to assess job performance fairly

How to avoid personality influences

How to gain commitment to a plan of action

How to agree a structure for ongong feedback meetings (not once a year)

How to deal with difficult apraisees

How to get appraisees to open up

How to deal with appraises who are talkative

How to control the meeting

How to gain commitment to objectives

How to agree ongoing management of objectives

How to give feedback efectively

How to receive feedback effectively

How to agree and gain commitments to performance improvements

How to produce a plan of action for monitoring performance

How to avoid pitfalls of appraisals

How to avoid smoke screens

How to set and agree goals

Performance appraisal skills key areas

The performance management process

Assessing performance

Apprasisal styles

Feedback

Importance of appraisals

Managing poor performers

Difficult reviews

Commiting to objectives

Succesful structured meetings

Questioniing and listening

Performance improvement planning

Coaching

365 days no quibbles guarantee

Such is our confidence that by using the skills you learn will ensure you achieve the results you need. We offer a full 365 day no quibble guarantee on our apraisal sklls course.
You have a full 365 days to use the skills you learn and if you are not entirely satisfied just email us and we will refund your fee

If you wish to check availability and dates for our next open course get in touch

If you wish to discuss us coming to you to talor a programme for your team get in touch