Painless Performance Conversations: A Practical Approach to Critical Day-to-Day Workplace Discussions.  Author, speaker and management consultant Marnie Green guides you step-by-step toward achieving Painless Performance Conversations. Through four critical mind-sets and an easy-to-use conversation model, you’ll learn to: eliminate the pain and fear that leads you to procrastinate tough discussions; reduce the harmful impacts of judgment in performance conversations; and create a culture of ownership and accountability in the workplace. Learn More.

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Performance Evaluation: Get It Done Bundle

This collection includes three webinars, one hour of coaching from author Marnie E. Green, and a copy of Painless Performance Evaluations, providing you with the information and support you need to get it done, painlessly. Learn more.

$249 

Painless Performance Management Webinar Bundle

You’ll learn everything you need to know about preparing and delivering painless performance evaluations in this six webinar series set. Learn more.

$599 

Painless Performance Conversations Webinar Bundle

In this five webinar series you’ll learn how to master performance conversations and maximize their potential to resolve issues, build a team environment, and increase employee effectiveness. Learn more.

$499 

Can Performance Conversations Really be Painless?

“If you ignore it, it will go away.” Many supervisors take this approach to managing tough employee situations. And it never works. Learn more.

$129 

You Don’t Have to Pass Judgment: Keys to Painless Performance Conversations

Before beginning a performance conversation, it is critical that you sort out what you really expect. Often managers initiate performance-related conversations without having a clear picture of the expected outcome. Learn more.

$129 

You Don’t Have to do all the Talking: More Keys to Painless Performance Conversations

Inquiring powerfully and purposefully — being curious — allows leaders to learn the employee’s perspective and gain support. Learn more.

$129 

You Don’t Have to Carry the Burden: Still More Keys to Painless Performance Conversations

Just because you ask questions and allow the employee to share in the direction of the conversation doesn’t mean you are relinquishing the responsibility for improved performance. Learn more.

$129 

You Can Do It: Conducting a Painless Performance Conversation

The four keys to a Painless Performance Conversation provide the foundation to a productive result. However, they are only tools. Leaders also must also follow a clearly defined roadmap in order to confidently lead the conversation to a successful conclusion. Learn more.

$129 

What is Performance Management?
And Why You Probably Aren’t Doing it as Well as You Should

In this webinar, you’ll learn what performance management is all about; why it is important to you, to your employees, and to your organization; and why it’s something you’re probably not doing as well as you should. Learn more.

$129 

Getting Clear: Establishing Performance Expectations for Employees

In this one-hour webinar, we explore why there is often a difference between what you expect and what the employee delivers. Learn more..

$129 

Effective Employee Performance Documentation: Elements and Techniques

This webinar will explore the elements of effective performance documentation and will offer practical, useful tips for making performance documentation an easy part of your management routine. Learn more.

$129 

Being the Judge: Rating Employee Performance Accurately

In addition to exploring an approach to rating employee performance, this webinar will explore trends in the design of performance evaluation systems. Learn more.

$129 

Writing a Painless Performance Evaluation

In this webinar we’ll explore a practical approach to writing a performance evaluation document and we’ll share secret tips and techniques for writing performance comments with ease. Learn more.

$129 

Leading a Painless Performance Evaluation Meeting

The formal performance evaluation meeting offers you and the employee a wonderful opportunity—an opportunity to reflect on the past and to plan for the future. Learn more.

$129