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Books By Bacal:Robert Bacal has written a number of books for McGraw-Hill and Alpha Press(Complete Idiot's Guide), several of them being best sellers. Topics range from performance management and appraisal to customer service and dealing with difficult employees. Here's a summary of each book, and links for more information and discount purchasing.

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  • Performance Management - A Briefcase Book

    Readable, plain language on the entire performance management process. Practical and also addresses criticisms of performance management by "systems" people and quality people. Focus on people, communication, appraisal methods, and debunks a number of myths about rankings, ratings, objectivity in appraisals. A best seller published by McGraw-Hill and translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and more, it's been a performance management best seller since its release.
    You can purchase this book at your local books store, or click the link for more book information and purchase from amazon.com

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Consulting

    If you want to break into the consulting profession or simply enhance your consulting skills, this is a great starting point. Contains real world practical hints about the consulting process, and the business side of running a consulting business.
    Written by Robert Bacal, and available from your local bookstore, or via amazon.com (click the link for more information, and purchasing info from amazon.

  • Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals : Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Goals for Any Performance Plan or Review

    In their previously published, top-selling book Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, Robert Bacal and Douglas Max described past employee performance. In Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals, Bacal and Max go a step further with hundreds of precisely-worded future performance goals.
    You will find ready-to-use performance goals for both managers and employees, in many categories including sales and profit goals, quality and productivity goals, on-time performance personal development goals, and much more. This practical job aid makes it easy for managers to raise the performance bar, and focus their people on the organization's top priorities. Available through your local bookstore or at amazon. Click the link for more book details.

  • Performance Management - Why Doesn't It Work Product Information

    A short concise examination of all the factors that drive performance management systems into the ground, along with some suggestions as to what to do about it. Written by Robert Bacal, also author of Performance Management - A Briefcase Book published by McGraw-Hill. Available in printed form, electronic download, and also through amazon.com. Click on the link to view a complete table of contents, and free excerpts.
  • The Manager's Guide to Performance Reviews

    ll managers, whether brand new to their positions or well-established in the organizational hierarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their organizations. For both managers and employees, performance reviews are too often viewed as negative and disciplinary. The Manager's Guide to Performance Reviewshelps managers instead make reviews both positive and proactive. It provides a step-by-step process for administering an effective performance review, one that will meet the organization's needs for employee appraisal while giving employees an honest sense of how they are performing and where they could improve. Also examined are various approaches to performance reviews, different forms and techniques, and more. Available at your local bookstore and through amazon.com. Click on the link for complete information.


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