Performance Management: A Manager’s Guide to Managing Talent
One of the reasons I started this blog was to learn and write on the habits of successful management practices.
From time to time, I will pick a topic critical to successful management. I will create a series to share what I’ve learned, identify key resources, highlight insightful articles, and share my own thoughts to help you establish your own habits for better management.
In this series, I’m focusing on Performance Management. Managing talent is one of the most difficult, time consuming and under developed skills for managers. Even though performance management should be a year-round process, most companies and managers only pay attention to this once a year (during the annual review period).
This blog post will serve as the landing page for all of the posts in the Performance Management series. This list will continue to expand and change as I create the content.
Here’s a few key posts of note with more to be filled in later:
- Why Performance Management Is Important?
- Writing Clear Job Descriptions
- Employee Goal Setting For Success – The SMART Way!
- Creating Well Constructed Employee Development Plans
- How to have effective one-on-one meetings
- Three Critical Guidelines to Writing an Effective Performance Appraisal
- Tips to a Successful Performance Discussion
- Dealing with Poor Employee Performance
- Additional Resources You Can Use
Please leave your comments, and let me know if there are any particular topics you want to make sure I cover. I’m excited about this series since it will essentially become a flagship series for Management 4-1-1.



