Painless Performance Conversations
A Practical Approach to Critical Day-to-Day Workplace Discussions
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Painless Performance Conversations
A Practical Approach to Critical Day-to-Day Workplace Discussions
About This Book
Actionable communication and management strategies for tackling difficult workplace discussions
Delivering the uncomfortable news that an employee is not stacking up can be stressful, and managers often have difficulties finding the right words to get their message across. Painless Performance Conversations presents actionable and practical communication and management strategies for any manager looking to effectively influence employee performance. Learn how to focus these conversations for maximum impact on performance, crystallize expectations for what success looks like, and engage employees in solution-finding.
Presenting four key mindsets and an easy to use conversation model, this book offers the tangible solutions managers need to tackle critical workplace discussions with poise and professionalism, as well as the tools needed to stay focused in otherwise difficult conversations.
- Eliminates the pain and fear that leads to procrastination of tough workplace conversations.
- Reduces the harmful impacts of judgment in performance conversation
- Helps managers create a culture of ownership and accountability
- Author Marnie E. Green is a featured blogger for Jobing.com and shares her popular and practical management perspectives in keynotes, webinars, and workshops with thousands of leaders in organizations worldwide
Painless Performance Conversations will help you to lead performance-related conversations with confidence and create a culture of workplace accountability.
Frequently asked questions
Typical Manager | Catalyst Manager |
Maintains status quo | Seeks new and better results |
Gets work done | Creates new opportunities |
Completes defined goals | Establishes new and challenging goals |
Preserves | Promotes |
Sustains performance | Takes performance to the next level |
Reinforces accepted ideas | Provokes new thinking |
The Primary Tool of Catalyst Managers
Employees Want Meaningful Conversations
Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Painless Performance Conversations
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Be a Catalyst: Fostering Painless Performance Conversations
- Chapter 2: Have the Guts: Tackling Performance Conversations Head On
- Chapter 3: Form Clear Expectations: Making Your List
- Chapter 4: Share Your Expectations: Conveying a Picture of Success
- Chapter 5: Lead with Behavior: Separating Actions from Attitudes
- Chapter 6: Eliminate Judgment: Focusing on Performance Evidence
- Chapter 7: Inquire with Purpose: Using Curiosity to Expand Possibilities
- Chapter 8: Be Clear: Creating a Culture of Ownership
- Chapter 9: Show Confidence: Conducting the Conversation
- Chapter 10: What If?: Your Toughest Performance Conversations
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- About the Management Education Group, Inc.
- About the Author
- Index