Performance Management: Measure and Improve The Effectiveness of Your Employees

APPENDIX A

Useful Implementation Tools

This appendix contains two useful items. Both are freely downloadable from the Harvard Business Essentials series Web site, www.elearning.hbsp.org/businesstools. Readers can freely access this and other worksheets, checklists, and interactive tools found on that site.

1. A coach’s self-evaluation checklist (figure A-1). Are you a good coach? Use this checklist to evaluate your coaching skills. If this self-test indicates that you need work in that area, be sure to read the two coaching chapters in this book.
2. Annual core performance expectations and development plan (figure A-2). Does your company have a regular format for conducting annual performance appraisals? If it does not, feel free to use or adapt ...