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Encouraging performance development

Encouraging performance development

- Both managers and their employees want to run for the hills when they hear it's performance review time. Managers, because of the tedious task of writing multiple long reviews, and being uncomfortable in addressing performance issues. Employees, because their anxiety increases as they brace themselves to hear about what they did wrong. Add on the virtual environment, and it's even more complicated. It doesn't have to be that way if you approach performance conversations as professional development. In this lesson, I will give you some strategies for how to turn performance management tasks into productive performance development discussions that you can have virtually. First, let's unpack why it's called performance development. Most companies have performance management procedures and policies that require you to submit reviews mid-year or annually. You will still need to follow performance management guidance. To…

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