Phrases and Strategies for Painless and Productive Performance Reviews
If you need to write an employee review, you need this book. If you want to look forward to giving and receiving performance reviews, you’ll welcome the ready-to- use performance review phrases this book provides. If you need to learn how to give a performance review of an employee, this book is full of how-to’s. And if you want to have a seamless system of performance management that culminates in an integrated performance review, then this might be the most important guide in your performance management library. This book is a quick and efficient resource to make employee performance reviews the positive management tool they were intended to be, and shows you how performance reviews can be satisfying and rewarding.
This useful and encouraging guide shows how performance reviews can be transformed from a prefunctory and stressful corporate ritual into a powerful, positive, and effective tool for both employers and employees.
Management consultants Meryl Runion and
Janelle Brittain, who have coached thousands successfully through the process, cover the essentials, including:
Five simple, essential steps for mastering every performance review
What to say, and what not to say
Hundreds of useful phrases organized by topic
Common pitfalls and how to steer clear of them
How to master the art of body language and verbal tone
Real-life success stories to emulate (and blunders to avoid)
How to make performance reviews a seamless part of TIPS: a Totally Integrated
Performance System
This guide will change not only what you say, but how you think about what you say in order to turn the review process into a positive, motivating experience that produces real behavior change.
A Practical, Step-By-Step Guide For Anyone Who Gives Or Receives Performance Reviews
Readers will find effective techniques for writing, presenting – and receiving – performance reviews.
Meryl and Janelle want to start a Performance Management Trend. They want performance reviews to be part of a Totally Integrated Performance System. How to Say It: Performance Reviews
can make that happen...
(Read the in-depth description on SpeakStrong.com here)
Meryl and Janelle want to start a Performance Review Trend. They want managers to include these
Bonus Superlative Performance Review Phrases
for their exceptional performers.
Download the list as a PDF......
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The How to Say It ® Website is brought to you by Meryl Runion and SpeakStrong, Inc.
As the founder and president of SpeakStrong, Inc., Meryl Runion, CSP, helps organizations and individuals create cultures where people have both the courage and the skills to confront difficult interactions head on, and move toward resolution and clarity. A dynamic, humorous, and tremendously effective speaker and trainer, Meryl has engaged audiences across the country and around the world. Working with some of the country's top companies and organizations, Meryl demonstrates how poor communication leads to misunderstandings, unclear work assignments, poor morale, internal conflict and even bad business decisions. Through her well-tested "Power Phases" techniques, Meryl has taught over 100,000 people to "Say what you mean and mean what you say, without being mean when you say it."
Meryl is the author of five books on communication: PowerPhrases!, How to Use PowerPhrases, Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors, Unite & Concur: How to stop arguing and start communicating about politics, and co-author of How to Say It ®: Performance Reviews.

Meryl's partner on the How to Say It ®: Performance Reviews project, Janelle Brittain, is a business trainer and consultant with more than 25 years of experience in communications, marketing, sales, and management. As executive director of the Dynamic Performance Institute, she has helped thousands of business people around the world develop essential skills for success.
and Introducing...
Meryl's SpeakStrong 4-Book Management Special
Whether you're new in management or you're a seasoned pro, this package teaches you how to get results through others. Hal Pitt's book gives you the secrets savvy managers know, and Meryl Runion's books give you the systems and words to streamline your management processes.
The Management Special includes:
How to Say It: Performance Reviews / Phrases and Strategies for Painless and Productive Performace Reviews
By Meryl Runion and Janelle Brittain
Perfect Phrases for Managers & Supervisors / Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Any Management Situation - By Meryl Runion
PowerPhrases! / The Perfect Words to Say It Right and Get the Results You Want - By Meryl Runion
The Number One Secrets of Successful Managers / Everything You Need to Know About Managing Others
- By Hal Pitt
...and as bonuses for ordering,
3 Downloadable and Printable PDF Posters
• The Totally Integrated Performance System
• Meryl's Performance Management Flow
• The Superlative Performance Review Phrases
Cost of Meryl's 4-book Management Special if purchased separately: $77.80 |
The 4-book Management Special give you the tools you need to be the kind of manager
employees want to produce results for.
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