Five Steps to Make the Performance Review Work For Employers, Not Lawyers
Performance appraisals are cross-examination favorites of plaintiffs’ attorneys. Drawing on his best practices research for SHRM and HR Magazine, Janove will share what employers have done to make performance reviews good for employees — and bad for lawyers. You will learn how to train managers to give effective two-way feedback, structure performance reviews to make them user-friendly and focused on the behaviors that matter as well as develop a system-wide approach that promotes consistency and accountability.
Jathan Janove
Jathan Janove is an internationally published author, including Managing To Stay Out Of Court: How To Avoid The 8 Deadly Sins Of Mismanagement, which Richard Drezen of the Washington Post described as “an extraordinarily useful book for managers and workers.” He is also the author of The Star Profile: A Management Tool To Unleash Employee Potential, Book Expo America Gold Medal winner, Business & Career. His latest book is Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories From The Management Trenches (HarperCollins). NYT bestselling author Daniel Pink states, “By sharing many of his best stories and experiences, Jathan Janove creates a short-cut for us to the knowledge needed to become an empathetic, effective leader in the workplace.”
Jathan writes the “Putting Humanity into HR Compliance” column for SHRM, and the “Coach’s Corner” blog for Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching. He is a frequent contributor to HR Magazine and other publications. He has been quoted as an authority in publications including the New York Times and Forbes.