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Summary: Essential guide for written performance appraisals
Review: "Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals" is the equivalent of a "Roget's Thesaurus" for supervisors and managers who have to evaluate employee performance on a regular basis. It organizes effective phrases under headings such as 'Communicative Skills" and "Leadership". You pick the most appropriate phrase to describe your employee's performance, e.g. "optimally utilizes all channels of communications", and write the review. Even if you don't want to use phrases out of this book, I've found that it is a good pattern book for brainstorming my own phrases.The only omission (in my opinion) in "Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals" is the lack of phrases for below average performance. Try "The Definitive Performance Writing Guide" by Douglas L. Drewry for your below average performance appraisals.
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Summary: Essential guide for written performance appraisals
Review: "Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals" is the equivalent of a "Roget's Thesaurus" for supervisors and managers who have to evaluate employee performance on a regular basis. It organizes effective phrases under headings such as 'Communicative Skills" and "Leadership". You pick the most appropriate phrase to describe your employee's performance, e.g. "optimally utilizes all channels of communications", and write the review. Even if you don't want to use phrases out of this book, I've found that it is a good pattern book for brainstorming my own phrases. The only omission (in my opinion) in "Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals" is the lack of phrases for below average performance. Try "The Definitive Performance Writing Guide" by Douglas L. Drewry for your below average performance appraisals.
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Summary: A "must have" for all supervisory staff!
Review: A fantastic guide for starting the writing process of performance evaluations. Puts your thoughts into perfect words.
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Summary: TERRIFIC--A MUST FOR ANY MANAGER
Review: Anyone who writes performance reviews must buy this book! It took me less than half the time it normally would to write my reviews. My HR department even remarked at how well written my reviews were. This is a clear, "to the point" tool that every manager should have.
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Summary: A must-have for non-native English speakers/authors
Review: Especially for non-native English speakers, this is an extremely helpful book. How often we do know what we want to say, but just cannot find the right words? Through its encompassing "all-muscles-no-fat" lists of phrases this book has become to me an essential helper for all evaluations that I write.
A clear "10".
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Summary: A Necessary Resource for the Supervisor
Review: I am a new supervisor with a fairly new staff of employees. This book is very helpful in finding the suitable phrase in writing performance appraisals. If you expect more in your employees work, a good performance appraisal sets the groundwork when written in a positive manner. This book is all about positives...even when further improvement is needed. Highly recommended.
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Summary: A Must Have Tool to Assist in Writing Great Appraisals
Review: I give this book 5+ stars when it comes to assisting an individuals that have numerous appraisals to complete each year. You can have an idea in your head browse through the book and BINGO you have located a phrase that will make your appraisal flow/sound so wonderful!
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Summary: A Must Have Tool to Assist in Writing Great Appraisals
Review: I give this book 5+ stars when it comes to assisting an individuals that have numerous appraisals to complete each year. You can have an idea in your head browse through the book and BINGO you have located a phrase that will make your appraisal flow/sound so wonderful!
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Summary: One of the most helpful tools I've found for evaluations.
Review: I have written evaluations for employees in the past and most recently for students. I have never found any resource as handy as this one. It is full of phrases that can be adapted for almost any situation and/or personality. I use it for clinical evaluations of students in work settings as well as for letter of recommendations. It also comes in handy when I want to be particularly accurate on a college/scholarship application for a student. These recommendations are especially important to a student's future. I have received compliments on my letter writing skills from other faculty members. I really can't take the credit...it belongs to Mr. Neal. Thanks!
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Summary: Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals
Review: I purchased a previous edition of this pocket handbook some years ago and replaced it recently with this newer edition.. I get the impression that this thoughtful and well laid out guide was originally for use in the military and other government agencies. It is a very useful tool for allowing your own creative juices to work for you when writing up an appraisal. The best method that I've found for this little guide is start in with an employee appraisal, then scan through the relevant pages when you feel you are at a sticking point and need some time in order to place the correct phrase that just doesn't seem to come to mind at the moment. Rest assured that taking a break, scanning through this guide for a while, and then putting your work aside for a few hours will result in some very constructive ideas for you.. s/ Patricia Gibbons
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