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, a former state bar Employment Lawyer of the Year and now Executive Coach and Organization Development consultant, writes SHRM’s “Putting Humanity into HR Compliance” column, and is a Master Coach and Practice Leader with the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching organization, including writing its Ask the Coach column. He’s the author, most recently, of “Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories From The Management Trenches” (HarperCollins 2017). He’s currently working on his next book, “From Compliance Cop to Culture Coach: Transforming the HR Profession.”
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