Positively Managing Performance: Your Roadmap for Managing Employees, Increasing Engagement & Creating a High Performance Work Environment

Continuous Performance Management -- the new industry standard for igniting employee engagement and boosting productivity and profitability in today's modern workplace.

As high-profile companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM switch from annual performance reviews to continuous performance management to ignite employee engagement, more and more companies are touting their high-priced continuous performance management software programs "ultimate solution." However, the truth is that technology is a tool, not a magic bullet. It's actually the manager-employee relationship that's the key to employee engagement, and adding a layer of technology could create more problems than it solves.

Positively Managing Performance is written as a user's guide for managers of people searching for help when it comes to managing employees and their performance. It's one-part "textbook," packed with the leading research on continuous performance management, employee performance, engagement and productivity, and one-part "workbook," offering a step-by-step roadmap for setting expectations, handling employees' emotional reactions to feedback, conducting effective one-on-ones, duplicating performance using the author's Manager Multiplier Effect℠
process and much, much more

Sharrell Kline's background and passion for positive performance management stem from a three-decade investigation into the many modalities for managing employee performance. While working as a journalist, then a labor & employment attorney, mediator and administrative law judge, she had the opportunity to work with hundreds of managers and thousands of employees and their unions. However, it was while working for one particularly horrible boss, and discovering that sometimes even "managing up" doesn't work, that she explored what was possible, found what worked and put it all into this guide - "the best of the best" in the performance management arena for helping managers of people positively address employee performance in a way that makes managers more confident and effective and employees more engaged and productive.