The Essential Performance Review Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource For Any Manager or HR Professional (The Essential Handbook)

This book gave me pretty much what I wanted, which are some best practices for conducting performance reviews. The author illustrates why performance reviews are important to employees, which is often a task that most managers dread. I appreciated the fact the book covers the key elements in performing reviews, as well as varying scenarios that can occur during reviews, in which examples are provided.Also covered are the different types of reviews, scoring matrices, compensation, and compliance rules. While the book is geared toward anyone in a leadership role, I believe those who are in an HR position would benefit more from this book, as many of the book's examples are out of my control (i.e. as a manager, I simply employ the type of review established at my company).The only downside to this book is that over 1/3 of it (70 pages!)contain example review forms. Once again, I must abide by the review form engineered by my company's HR leaders, thus I gained little from those pages.

Unfortunately I did not find this as helpful as I had hoped. This book is really about goals and although it might start the thought process for writing performance statements, the context as provided is highly impersonal.

Wasn’t fond of this book. Used it two to three times. Wouldn’t recommend it.di

Really interesting concepts and lots of examples

At my job we have to write our own performance reviews then our manager reviews them and makes their edits and comments. This has been a wonderful resource with power words and phrases!

We were re-doing performance reviews and evaluations at work. This book had some great ideas and we used it as a reference quite a bit.

Good Suggestions! Reviews look very organized and professional!

this is a very good book that contains excellent suggestions. it is very helpful and i would definitely recommend this book.