http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Dick+Grote Business Management Dick Grote Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=140417&ca=Business+Management If your employee performance management system is not effective – in other words, your managers aren’t meeting their responsibility of getting their employee performance appraisals written, approved and delivered on time - here’s the first question to ask: What happens to the manager who doesn’t tur... Business Management Dick Grote Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=131215&ca=Business+Management Smoothing the Consequences of Miscounduct with Accountability For seventy-five years, American organizations have used a fairly standardized procedure to handle familiar personnel problems such as absenteeism, poor performance, and other misconduct. This approach, usually called “progressive discipl... Business Dick Grote Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=120076&ca=Business Conventional wisdom says that there’s no such thing as a perfect employee performance appraisal form. And with so many sorry examples of appraisal forms around, conventional wisdom might almost seem correct. It’s not. There is an ideal model for the employee performance appraisal form. And getting t... Business Dick Grote Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=115414&ca=Business In America’s best-run and most-admired organizations, employee performance appraisal is a vital and vigorous management tool. No other management process has as much influence on individuals’ careers and work lives. Used well, employee performance appraisal is the most powerful instrument that organ... Business Management Dick Grote Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=43268&ca=Business+Management Too often, participants in performance appraisal meetings seem awkward and uncomfortable. To some extent, that’s unavoidable — it’s always a bit awkward for one person to deliver a formal assessment of the quality of work performed by another. But following some simple suggestions can eliminate a lo... Business Management Dick Grote Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=43270&ca=Business+Management What do you do when an employee disagrees with something you’ve written on their performance review? How can you prepare for this and deal with it effectively? Start by listening to figure out the source of the disagreement. Is it an issue of fact (you wrote that the employee received a customer sat... Business Management Dick Grote Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=32641&ca=Business+Management What’s an organization to do when all of its honest and genuine efforts to motivate Sally and Sam to come to work on time, work safely, deliver efficient services, and act as if they were happy to be a part of the team, fail? There is no shortage of pop-psych books and motivational speakers who’ll t... Business Management Dick Grote Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14750&ca=Business+Management Face the facts: Creating a new performance appraisal system is a difficult undertaking. It’s even more difficult if the organization doesn’t have a logical, well-tested, step-by-step process to follow in developing their new procedure. Based on my experience in helping dozens of companies create pe...