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Help your meeting leaders put a stop to meetings that waste employees' valuable time.

Meetings are a way of life in today's corporations, where teams demand a high level of involvement and communication. But meetings don't have to be a waste of time. This video shows your staff how to turn even the most misdirected meetings into organized, productive sessions where participants are valued, focused, and involved.

How To Training Points

• How to involve each participant in the meeting
• How to resolve disagreements by listening, asking questions, paraphrasing, and getting feedback
• How to use the agenda to stay focused and on track
• How to end each meeting with mutually agreed upon and well, understood action steps

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Avoid the "verdict" performance appraisal-- improvement comes from coaching

Though it's easier to pin a verdict on how well an employee is doing, managers must remember to bevery careful not to fall in this trap. In other words, "be a coach, not a judge". Take advantage of the time to honestly assess how will your employee is doing, help them escalate their individual strengths, and find out what ways you can assist them on improving their weaknesses.

This is exactly what Conducting the Performance Appraisal is all about. Identify your real objective during the performance appraisal based on five personnel-management techniques set forth in the exemplifying video. There are four major steps to conducting your employee meetings. After watching this video, you'll understand in detail, how to prepare, meet, document, and follow-up after the appraisal using such models as the SMART method and a one-step-at-a-time formula for making the appraisal both beneficial for yourself and the employee. Within this video, your narrator will also provide you with an alternate list of questions to consider asking your employees, even if your organization already uses a form. In the end, your most brooded concerns and questions are answered in a Q & A format.

You'll Learn How To:

• Put the employee at ease
• Improve communication through open-ended questions
• Avoid three common pitfall effects
• Get the employee to talk about his/her strengths
• Keep written performance records

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How to balance the many responsibilities of managing people and their performance

Supervisors are ultimately responsible for the results in their area and the people they lead. Prepare your new supervisors for their role with management expert Ron Meiss as he helps them focus on the “can do”!

With help from various dramatic scenes, Ron explains how to balance the sometimes tricky responsibilities of planning work schedules, dividing and assigning tasks, giving evaluations, following-up, and other essential duties. You'll learn how to maintain emotional control and give corrective feedback. Ron also answers questions about the most common supervisory problems and what to do when you cross them.

You'll Learn How To:

• Categorize urgent and important activities
• Implement a prioritizing system
• Use six steps for effective delegation
• Separate corrective and supportive feedback

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Skeptical workers with "who cares" attitudes can be motivated. Teach your managers how!

Featuring Dennis Franz, star of TV's hit series NYPD Blue, this video dramatizes the story of a manager who learns the value of feedback. It shows how positive reinforcement can enable managers and supervisors to motivate even the most difficult employees to do their best.

How To Training Points

• How to establish a positive, predictable working environment
• How to measure performance and give encouraging feedback
• How to provide "planned spontaneous recognition"