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| Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews : Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases That Describe Your Employees' Performance | 
 enlarge | Authors: Douglas Max, Robert Bacal
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 8284
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 250
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 007140838X
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.3125
EAN: 9780071408387
ASIN: 007140838X
Publication Date: November 11, 2002
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Product Description
Hands-on help for quicklyand persuasivelywriting company-mandated performance appraisals Writing performance appraisals is one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks managers face. Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews simplifies the job, providing a comprehensive collection of phrases that managers can use to describe employee performance, provide directions for improvement, and more. For example: - "Sets priorities well"
- "Misses important deadlines"
- "Thorough, reliable, and accurate"
All managers and HR professionals will value the book for its: - Hundreds of ready-to-use phrases, organized by job skill and performance level
- Tips for documenting performance issues and conducting face-to-face reviews
- Easily adapted performance review templates covering five performance levels
With the wide-ranging assortment of descriptions available in this book, managers will be able to find the perfect terms to help them analyze and understand the work performance of each person they work with.
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 Phrases and a lot more March 9, 2003
53 out of 56 found this review helpful
Doing performance reviews--preparing for them, filling out the form, and understanding how to make them effectively improve an employee's performance--can be a challenging task. How do you make it a positive experience, for yourself and for the employee? It's not easy. How do you let the person know he or she is not living up to the organization's expectations? Again, not easy. This book can help in doing these things. The majority of book is given over to phrases you can use in over 70 different categories of performance. Each category has five levels of phrases, from outstanding to unacceptable. Even if some phrases don't fit exactly what you're looking for, you have a place to start and you can easily modify them to fit your purposes. I also like the first part of the book on how to plan, conduct, and write a performance review. The book also has two cool appendixes. One is titled "Ten Mistakes Managers Make When Conducting Performance Reviews," and the other is "Seven Mistakes Employees Make During Performance Reviews." For a retail price of [money], this book is a great tool for anyone having to do performance reviews. Highly recommended.
 Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews .... Not! March 19, 2004
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
The background to giving appraisals is very good, as is the advice on how to conduct an interview. For this alone the book is worth purchasing. Included within this book are many pages of "perfect phrases". To state they are perfect is, I feel, a little misleading. Although I must mention that at the start of the book it is stated that these sentences should be altered to suit the individual. My gripe is that the sentences have not been rated very well. For example, on page 41 under Accuracy, Outstanding options provides you with "Mistakes don't slip through" as one of the choices. Should that not read, "Exceptionally accurate at all times". Many of the sentences are very weak and fail to use any "power words" to strengthen an employee's qualities.My feelings are that the book has been thrown together from previous appraisals with little though to the content of the phrases. The "sentences" require regrading and stronger words added to give them more bite. Also other attributes need to be added to give the book a wider audience such as: Loyalty, Sense of Duty, Competence, Confidence but to name a few.
 Underwhelmed! February 26, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book has a lot of great catagories, but when it comes to actual phrases to use, they come up short. The phrases are very basic...I didn't need a book to come up with these. This book lacks detail, descriptive phrases and impact. I was looking for inspiration in writing my performance reviews - I did not find any inspiration or usuable phrases in this book!
Perfect phrases July 25, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent resource for dealing with difficult employees; perfect phrases to use in human relations situtuations.
 Ready to use September 18, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book gets right to what you need, phrases for the performance review. This isn't a book you read but a book you use. Grab this book from the shelf, look up the skill or ability, match the performance and choose the phrase that fits best. This approach is straight forward and to the point. A must have for all managers. Then add the documented measurements of that performance like the number of days missed, etc...
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