A Manager's Guide to Improving Workplace Performance

By Roger Chevalier

Book Overview

This book offers a practical, step-by-step approach to guiding employees to excellence by analyzing their problem areas, developing creative solutions, and implementing change.

While many supervisors know how to identify flaws in their employees' performance, only the best managers truly know what it takes to fix the problem. Employee performance expert Roger Chevalier has helped thousands of managers and human resources professionals to bring out the best in their workers.

Using case studies and real-life examples, Chevalier shows supervisors how to take their employees from good to great by:

using tools like the Performance Coaching Process, Performance Counseling Guide, and Performance Analysis Worksheets tailoring the amount of direction and support to an employee's specific abilities and motivations applying the Situational Leadership model to teams and individual employees.

Practical and authoritative, A Manager's Guide to Improving Workplace Performance offers a positive, yet realistic solution for one of the greatest workplace challenges facing managers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814474187
• ISBN13: 9780814474181
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

A pick for both practicing managers and any business library catering to them.

What separates good managers from ordinary ones is their ability to work with employees to fix problems and boost productivity, and Manager's Guide to Improving Workplace Performance is right up the alley of any who would move to this higher next level in management, creating a step-by-step approach to handling employees for optimum results. From using coaching tools and applying the Situational Leadership Model to team members to handling individuals, Manager's Guide to Improving Workplace Performance helps managers identify problems and pair them with tested solutions, making this a pick for both practicing managers and any business library catering to them.