Summary of Program: All too often your career can rest in the hands of your supervisor who, often, has the power to determine your fate. On the other hand, as a supervisor, you may find yourself never completing your performance appraisal because evaluations don't necessarily help people grow. Assessing the performance of another human being does carry staggering responsibility. This seminar creates a tool for productive feedback which makes the performance appraisal something to look forward to.

    Your duty to answer responsibly to the performance of those you supervise, or to answer to your supervisor, will become a much easier and more pleasant task with this tool for understanding why people think differently. theExact Word^®'s system gives you an immediately useful template which will help you assess performance while you understand why someone would do a job in a way that you otherwise would not. This ThoughtPrint^® tool explains, with a system you can use permanently, why people approach jobs and communications differently. Therefore, performance appraisal becomes a matter of assessing an employee's strengths, or our own, and how to best showcase those strengths in light of job requirements without expecting everybody to do something your way. Having this systematic approach takes the burden off and prevents procrastinating.

Program Objectives:

Learn how people do jobs differently, but equally well.

Learn how to objectively define individual strengths.

Measure performance strengths against position requirements.

Suggest solutions for improving performance as measured by position requirements.

Unify staff differences.

Understand diversity of thinking and identify strengths of an individual.

Use an overarching organizational chart of "inner" and "outer" professional behaviors to advise employees how to target areas for improvement.

End fighting in the workplace.

Write performance appraisals well.

Delivery Format:

3 Days.

Fun.

Write one employee's performance appraisal, fact or fiction.

Discussion.

Minimal lecture.

Hands-on practice.

Seminar Exercise Manual, Feedback for Growth^©.

Desktop Handbook, Elements of Thought^©.

Color-coded highlighter markers as learning aids for tEW's model.