How To Write A Performance Appraisal

The appraiser may be any person who observes the employee while performing a job. The appraiser has thorough knowledge about the job content, contents to be appraised, and standards of contents. The appraiser should prepare reports and make judgments without bias. Typical appraisers are supervisors, peers, subordinates, employees themselves, users of service, and consultants.

Make It Count: What You Say and How You Say It

Feedback in business is a collaborative process of two-way communication between management and employees. Too often, input from a manager doesn't come until it's time for a performance evaluation or when a problem has escalated out of control. Providing candid and frequent feedback is a necessary process in one's professional development. You get out of it what you put into it.

Workplace Harassment

At a recent American Psychological Association conference, psychologist Paula Grubb from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reported a very disturbing finding—nine out of ten workplaces in the United States experience some level of uncivil behavior, verbal abuse, and bullying.

Formal Versus Informal Behavior? Which One When?

How do you appear at work? As an incredibly competent leader or as a likeable and folksy friend? Which is better for your image? Did you know that you have a choice? Find out what others are doing and saying about this issue!

Donald Trump Apprentice TV Series Teaches a Bad Lesson in Office Communication

Donald Trump Apprentice TV Series is in fact a view of what is wrong with corporate America and it functions much like a dysfunctional family. This sends the wrong message to up-and-coming business professionals.

A Proactive Approach to Dealing with Conflict in Organizations

Conflict is inevitable in business and relationships. How you manage it determines its impact on your company, yourself and your employees. The worst thing a company or manager can do is ignore conflict and all too often, that is the strategy being used by many in today's organizations. Learn how NOT to avoid conflict and transform the way you, your team and the organization can develop a healthy and productive relationship with conflict.

Work Place Communication in Trucking with Dispatchers

Workplace communication is not just important in office work. In many industries the workplace is larger than just the office. Consider if you will a trucking company that is nationwide with trucks and dispatchers serving the entire North American continent.

Work Place Communication in Air Transportation Sector

Workplace communication and teamwork are essential to pilots and their crew. When everything is going right workplace communication in the cockpit of an airliner is not so important, but when things start to go wrong it is omnipotent.

The Twinkie Defense and 3 Other Strategies Lawyers Use - Tips for Coaching Employees

Using the skills, strategies, and smarts of lawyers, you’ll be able to more effectively coach your employees to optimal performance.

Business Conversation Skills Basics: Learning to Speak

What elements must every request, offer, or promise in business or out have in order to be complete?

Communication Counts - How To Make People Pay Attention

Methods to show people see that your message is worth paying attention to, whether it is a notice on the staff board, a letter to existing customers or a sales presentation.

Communicating Boundaries to Tame Hostile Co-Workers, Customers and Bosses

Setting personal boundaries in the workplace allows you to get more respect. Do you have hostile co-workers, customers or bosses? Learning this simple process can de-esculate hostility and restore a sense of self respect, calmness and focus to your work and personal life.

Process Improvement Through Benefit Communication

How to improve any process and achieve your business goals and personal satisfaction. Communicating your goals, desires and expected process benefits to all involved parties is the key to any successful business process improvement.

Why 30 Seconds?

It is very important to get your point across with the right words in the right time frame. If you cannot do this your success will be very limited. You may even fail. This article stresses the need for a 30-second message even if the communication time available is far greater than 30 seconds.

How to Make Friends and Avoid Enemies

Over the past few years an epidemic of rudeness has swept America. Here's how to stop the disease.