Dick Grote - Articles

Dick Grote is one of America's most successful authors, consultants, and speakers on performance management. He is the CEO of Grote Consulting and the developer of the GroteApproach online performance management system - on the http://www.groteapproach.com

• Creating An Effective Employee Performance Management System
  06/04/2007 | Management
  If your employee performance management system is not effective - in other words, your managers aren't meeting their responsibility of getting their employee performance appraisals written, approved and delivered on time - here's the first question to ask: What happens to the manager who doesn't turn in all of his... Read
  
• A Positive Approach To Employee Performance Improvement Through Discipline
  06/03/2007 | Management
  Smoothing the Consequences of Miscounduct with Accountability For seventy-five years, American organizations have used a fairly standardized procedure to handle familiar personnel problems such as absenteeism, poor performance, and other misconduct. This approach, usually called "progressive discipline," provides for an increasingly serious series of penalties - reprimands, warnings, suspensions without pay... Read
  
• Employee Performance Appraisal - 5 Steps For The Ideal Assessment Form
  25/01/2007 | Business
  Conventional wisdom says that there's no such thing as a perfect employee performance appraisal form. And with so many sorry examples of appraisal forms around, conventional wisdom might almost seem correct. It's not. There is an ideal model for the employee performance appraisal form. And getting the form right is essential... Read
  
• Employee Performance Appraisal - An Ideal System
  05/01/2007 | Business
  In America's best-run and most-admired organizations, employee performance appraisal is a vital and vigorous management tool. No other management process has as much influence on individuals' careers and work lives. Used well, employee performance appraisal is the most powerful instrument that organizations have to mobilize the energy of every employee in... Read
  
• Employee Performance Reviews — Dealing With Disagreements
  30/03/2006 | Management
  What do you do when an employee disagrees with something you've written on their performance review? How can you prepare for this and deal with it effectively? Start by listening to figure out the source of the disagreement. Read
  
• Get Your Performance Appraisal Discussions Off To A Good Start (Part 1)
  30/03/2006 | Management
  Too often, participants in performance appraisal meetings seem awkward and uncomfortable. To some extent, that's unavoidable — it's always a bit awkward for one person to deliver a formal assessment of the quality of work performed by another. Read