5 Keys to Successful Performance Management

If you want better performance from your employees, the following four statements may surprise you:

• Forget about making managers' lives easier
• Dump your performance appraisal and "coach" moniker
• Shift accountability away from employees
• Stop paying them off

While these statements may seem to contradict what you have heard about successful performance management practices, we have found that the following five practices break away from conventional thinking to help solve the age old problem of the cumbersome, ineffective, and often ridiculed performance management practices.