Giving and Receiving Feedback: How to Create and Improve an Employee Development Plan

This webinar will explain different performance appraisal models and will identify the pros and cons of performance appraisals. Attendees will learn how to create and improve an employee development plan.

Why Should You Attend:

Missteps often occur as a result of how feedback is conveyed. The workplace has become a more contentious environment for managers and supervisors and at the front of this “battlefield” is the topic of constructive versus perceived destructive feedback.

This webinar will introduce the appropriate tools to communicate within the governing labor laws and policies that oversee this activity. It will also provide valuable insight to managers at all levels in:

• Scripting the conversation
• Understanding the steps to facilitate this dialogue
• Heightening awareness of listening skills

Learning Objectives:

• Learn a variety of performance appraisal models that cover self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills
• Understand the steps to developing a prototype
• Heighten awareness of how current trends in organization planning are important in the performance appraisal process.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Delivering performance appraisals that are in line with the needs of the organization
• Identifying the pros and cons of performance appraisals
• Developing the shared vision (manager and employee)
• Reviewing different performance appraisal models
• Creating an employee development plan
• Writing appraisals
• Preparing and structuring the appraisal discussion
• Promoting the art of “follow through”
• Investigating alternatives in conflict management
• Identifying elements of problem solving and performance feedback
• Reviewing the principals of putting knowledge into practice

Who Will Benefit:

• Newly/Recently Promoted Managers
• Human Resource Professionals
• Independent Consultants (HR, Marketing, Crisis Management, etc.)
• Attorneys and Mediators
• Project Leaders