HBR Guides to Performance Management Collection: Coaching Employees |
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Section 1: Preparing To Coach Your Employees |
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1 Shift Your Thinking to Coach Effectively |
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You're learning right along with your employees. |
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2 Set the Stage to Stimulate Growth |
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A practical, concrete plan for achieving peak performance. |
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3 Earn Your Employees' Trust |
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Build rapport so that they can hear your feedback. |
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Section 2: Coaching Your Employees |
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4 Holding a Coaching Session |
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Ask questions, articulate goals, reframe challenges. |
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5 Following Up After a Coaching Session |
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6 Giving Feedback That Sticks |
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Prevent a fight-or-flight response. |
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7 Enlist Knowledge Coaches |
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Tap the "deep smarts" of your subject-matter experts. |
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8 Coaching Effectively in Less Time |
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Adopt efficient habits and claim found time. |
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9 Help People Help Themselves |
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They'll continue to grow through self-coaching. |
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10 Avoid Common Coaching Mistakes |
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Pitfalls to watch out for-and how to remedy them. |
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Section 3: Customize Your Coaching |
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11 Tailor Your Coaching to People's Learning Styles |
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Find approaches to learning that your employees will be motivated to follow. |
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12 Coaching Your Stars, Steadies, and Strugglers |
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You can't-and shouldn't-give them equal time. |
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13 Coaching Your Rookie Managers |
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Help them avoid classic beginners' errors. |
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14 Coaching Rising Managers to Emotional Maturity |
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Don't promote people before they're ready. |
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When to intervene-and how. |
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HBR Guides to Performance Management Collection: Delivering Effective Feedback |
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Section 1: Ongoing Feedback |
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1 Giving Effective Feedback |
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The two types of feedback, defined. |
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2 Sometimes Negative Feedback Is Best |
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For some, it can be more motivating than praise. |
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3 Giving Feedback That Sticks |
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Prevent a fight-or-flight response. |
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4 A Better Way to Deliver Bad News |
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Take an open approach to your discussion. |
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5 The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome |
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How bosses create their own poor performers. |
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6 How to Give Feedback That Helps People Grow |
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Establish trust, then focus on improvement. |
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7 Recognize Good Work in a Meaningful Way |
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Tailor your rewards to the person and the effort. |
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Christina Bielaszka-Duvernay |
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Section 2: Formal Performance Appraisals |
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8 Delivering an Effective Performance Review |
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Five basic rules for getting it right. |
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9 Managing Performance When It's Hard to Measure |
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Focus on the individual, not a rating. |
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10 Stop Worrying About Your Employee's Weaknesses |
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Emphasize their strengths to help them grow. |
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11 How to Set and Support Employee Goals |
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Set your people up to succeed. |
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12 When to Grant a Promotion or Raise |
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First, make sure they can do the job they want. |
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13 Tips for Record Keeping |
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Track performance so reviews run smoothly. |
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14 How to Help an Underperformer |
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Identify the problem and see if coaching can help. |
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15 Delivering Criticism to a Defensive Employee |
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16 How to Give Star Performers Productive Feedback |
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Discuss performance, new frontiers, and aspirations. |
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17 Prioritizing Feedback-Even When Time Is Short |
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Three ways to be more efficient. |
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18 Navigating the Choppy Waters of Cross-Cultural Feedback |
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Make subtle shifts to adapt your approach. |
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19 How to Discuss Performance with Your Team |
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Let them do the talking first. |
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HBR Guides to Performance Management Collection: Leading Teams |
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Invest in the "people" side of teamwork. |
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Section 1: Build Your Team's Infrastructure |
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1 Pull Together a Winning Team |
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Make it small and diverse. |
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2 Get to Know One Another |
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Connect in a meaningful way and learn what people need to do their best work. |
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3 Establish Your Team's Goals |
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Define your tasks and outcomes-and your processes for achieving them. |
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4 Agree on Individuals' Roles |
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Decide who will do what on the team. |
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5 Agree on Rules of Conduct |
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Specify how the team will operate as a unit. |
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6 Set the Stage for Accountability |
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Sort out how the team will enforce its goals, roles, and rules. |
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7 Commit to a Team Contract |
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Summarize what you've agreed to in your team-building conversations. |
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Section 2: Manage Your Team |
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8 Make Optimal Team Decisions |
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Create an environment where everyone participates. |
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9 Hold People Accountable |
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Build skills-and trust-in giving and receiving feedback. |
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10 Give People Recognition |
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Motivate them to contribute more by acknowledging what they've done. |
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11 Resolve Conflicts Constructively |
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Get problems out in the open right away so you can move past them. |
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Discuss what's working and what may need to change. |
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13 Manage Outside the Team |
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Cultivate mutually beneficial external relationships. |
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Section 3: Close Out Your Team |
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Keep everyone focused and working productively until the end. |
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15 Learn from Your Team's Experiences |
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Reflect on what worked and what didn't. |
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Appendix A: Rules Inventory |
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Appendix B: Cultural Audit |
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Appendix C: Team Contract |
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HBR Guides to Performance Management Collection: Performance Management |
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Introduction: Performance Management for a New Age of Work |
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What changes to the process mean for you as a manager. |
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Section One: Goal Setting |
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1 The Characteristics of Effective Goals |
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Make them clear and specific, achievable but challenging. |
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2 Define Employee Goals-and Decide How They're Measured |
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Fit the needs of the individual and the organization. |
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3 Collaborate with Your Employee to Create a Plan for Moving Forward |
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Outline steps to accomplish objectives and adjust as necessary. |
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Section Two: Ongoing Performance Management |
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4 Assessing Performance Isn't a Onetime Event |
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Note good and bad work, and identify root cause. |
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5 Make a Habit of Providing Feedback |
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57 | (14) |
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Discuss your observations with your employee. |
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6 Coach Your Employees to Close Performance Gaps |
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71 | (12) |
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Ask questions to help them solve problems and master new skills. |
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7 How to Keep Your Employees Motivated |
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83 | (16) |
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Recognize good work, and encourage progress. |
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Section Three: Developing Employees |
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8 Understand Your Employee's Wants and Needs |
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99 | (12) |
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Know what your direct report aspires to. |
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9 Expand Your Employee's Skill Sets |
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111 | (14) |
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Basic tactics to learn new areas of expertise. |
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10 Craft a Development Plan |
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125 | (10) |
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Define a specific path for future growth. |
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11 How to Develop Someone Who's Struggling |
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135 | (14) |
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Good performers aren't the only ones who need to grow. |
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Section Four: Formal Performance Reviews |
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12 The Case Against (and for) Annual Appraisals |
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149 | (10) |
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How companies are changing the way they look at reviews. |
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13 Assess Performance, but Rethink Ratings |
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159 | (22) |
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Take an individualized approach. |
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14 How to Conduct the Review Conversation |
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181 | (14) |
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Tips and tricks for a productive discussion. |
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15 Define New Goals for a New Cycle |
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195 | (6) |
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Adjust objectives for continued growth. |
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Section Five: Tough Topics |
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16 Responding to the Steady Worker |
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201 | (6) |
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What to do with your stalwarts. |
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17 Preventing Burnout on Your Team |
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207 | (10) |
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Make sure your people aren't running out of steam. |
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18 Managing the Performance of Remote Employees |
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217 | (12) |
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From giving feedback to conducting annual appraisals. |
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229 | (8) |
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