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Addresses the growing appetite for a business reference series. Focuses on dealing with people and communicating, drawing on the sales history of other management series, and giving managers what they want most: insight into what successful managers already know.

In this video, Cutting Edge team members prepare for work appraisals. Casey and Tammy are nervous about their performance reviews. Marcus offers Dion tips about knowing your goals, where you've progressed, and how you wish to move forward. Sam states that being proactive communicates self-motivation. Having a brag list is beneficial: you can demonstrate what you've accomplished and various ways you monetize your value to the company. People going...

Appraisals can be difficult, awkward or totally ineffective. In this episode of Q&A, Eve Ash and Peter Quarry provide key definitions of appraisal processes, strategies and techniques. By addressing a number of questions from a variety of workplaces, they offer practical solutions for even the most difficult of appraisal situations.

HR consultant Peter Wallbridge explains how to best conduct performance reviews. Companies should maintain an ongoing development culture rather than only a once-a-year review; this helps avoid surprises. Employers should agree on goals in KRAs (Key Result Areas) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators.)Wallbridge discusses how to go about assessing performance and discussing career development. He discusses the relation of performance reviews to incentive...

Authors Ridings and McIver polled more than seven hundred historians and academics to determine who were the best, the worst, and even the most mediocre presidents. Each survey participant was asked to rate every president from highest to lowest in five separate categories: Leadership Qualities - Franklin Roosevelt rates highest; Harding lowest. Accomplishments and Crisis Management - Lincoln rates highest; Buchanan lowest. Political Skill - Franklin...

"More than just a standard outline of reward systems-of-the-moment, this book explains the do's and don'ts of building a competitive, successful pay system - and helps you avoid the failures inherent in a pay system that stands apart from your company's overall business plan. The book covers: sources of business strategy; forces influencing compensation strategy; work analysis and evaluation; base pay systems and structures; measurement of individual,...

CD-ROM contains: examples of PowerPoint e-portfolios and templates.

"Will tell you how to identify good and bad teachers, how to avoid assignment to bad teachers, how to make sure the problem is the teacher, how to make the most of teacher conferences, what to say to the principal to get your child the attention he deserves, what not to say to the principal if you want action, and how, if all else fails, to help your child survive a bad teacher."