The secret to stress-free, hassle-free performance reviews that generate positive performance
If you're like most managers, the one job you never feel truly comfortable about is evaluating your employees. You want to be fair. You want to be accurate. And, you want to deliver the review with just the right amount of encouragement to make the employee want to improve ... and just the right amount of constructive feedback to make sure he or she knows what to do to improve.

And, yes, there's one more thing ... you don't want to spend countless hours preparing the perfect review. You need a process for developing on-target evaluations quickly!

Reviews that help your strong employees become even stronger ... and help employees who are "off track" get back in line
This one-hour training is packed with how-to strategies you can use in performance reviews to encourage and develop employees into peak performers.

You'll learn how to use criticism as a positive tool for helping your employees improve. You'll master smart ways to address unacceptable behavior head-on and establish clear expectations for improvement. And you'll discover motivational techniques you can use to spur great employees on to even greater accomplishments.

Don't miss this valuable opportunity to make the employee review process go more smoothly and be more effective from now on!

What You’ll Learn
Preparing for the performance review

• 2 critical steps you must take when planning the performance review
• 5 things employees expect from you during an evaluation session

Tips and tricks for using the performance review as a development tool

• The #1 mistake managers make when criticizing employees … and how you can avoid it
• 3 types of feedback that will motivate superstars to accomplish even more
• How to criticize in a way that boosts an employee's spirits
• The secret to beefing up an average performer
• 4 ways to feel comfortable giving positive feedback when you're not the nurturing type
• "Upward appraisal" – how to use the proven technique to increase productivity
• 4 powerful skills for evaluating an employee with a bad attitude

Your Trainer: Michael Perkins
Now in his second decade of training and consulting with success executives worldwide, Michael Perkins knows that conducting positive performance reviews can send morale and productivity soaring. He has helped some of the world's most conservative and traditional companies realize their review methods aren't necessarily the most effective — though they have been successful in the past.  
 
Michael is currently in high demand as a trainer and consultant, and we are thrilled to have him lead this training. His peers recognize that Michael is consistently on the cutting edge of interpersonal communication, HR law, and management training. His audiences see him as a savior: He taught them to transform the sometimes scary — and often frustrating — performance review process into an opportunity to create energizing action plans for both managers and employees.

Michael will show you how to make performance reviews positive and rewarding for your employees — and not something to be feared ... or ignored.