All Entries in the "Management" Category
Improving How You Conduct Performance Discussions With Poor Performers
Barbara Brown, PhD asked: You are getting ready to do one of your least favorite management tasks: have a performance discussion with a poor performer. But before you have this discussion, you want to organize your ideas so you can clearly describe the problems and state your expectations for improvement. You have a standard approach [...]
Taking Part In A Balanced Scorecard Discussion
Sam Miller asked: Being a proprietor of any business, the need to check on the performance of the business itself in its entirety is quite inevitable. Any owner of any business would want to know how his business is doing. To do this, there are so many factors to consider. In this aspect alone, the [...]
How to Conduct More Effective Performance Discussions – Focus on Mutual Benefits
Barbara Brown, PhD asked: It’s time to sit down and talk to your employees about their performance. If your staff is similar to that of most managers, your employees perform at different levels. Some are high performers, some are average performers, and some are low performers. So you will have different discussions with different employees. To [...]
Group Discussion
Himanshu Juneja asked:
A Group Discussion is a collective amalgamation of available information. Each individual in the group is believed d to have a say in the process of communication. A Group discussion is based upon three P’s-Purpose, Planning and Participation. It involves two other components- Leadership and Casualness.
Advantages of Group Discussion
1) [...]
Performance Discussions About Communication – Using a Results and Behavior Approach
Barbara Brown, PhD asked: Consider this scenario. You have an employee who is constantly complaining about how others communicate. This employee could also benefit from better communication approaches as well (unbeknownst to the employee of course!). You have decided to talk to this employee, but you are unable to offer clear and concise suggestions for [...]
