Bøger af Robin Kessler

Managers working in today's organizations often focus more on results than on the people who achieve those results. But regularly evaluating the performance of your employees is critical to improving the efficiency and output of your organization. Performance reviews have changed significantly in the past few years. Companies today are looking for the key characteristics, known as competencies, that help the most successful people in their field to be so successful. Managers and employees need to focus on those competencies, especially during performance review discussions. Competency-Based Performance Reviews offers you a new and more effective way to handle performance reviews and to coach your employees to emphasize the knowledge, skills, and abilities that they have and the organization needs. Most sophisticated U.S. and international employers are using competency-based systems to select, interview, and evaluate the performance of employees. Fortune 500 corporations such as American Express, Anheuser Busch, Coca-Cola, Disney, Federal Express, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer are all looking for specific competencies. This book will give you the guidance you need to: -- Perform competency-based reviews on your employees. -- Help your team get the recognition they deserve in division meetings by providing the evidence to justify higher performance rankings. -- Develop your own competencies--and those of your employees. -- Coach employees to recognize competency-based accomplishments and advocate for themselves throughout the year. -- Write smarter, targeted competency-based accomplishment statements to use on performance review forms. By putting these competency-based performance reviews into practice, managers can strengthen their organziations, their careers, as well as the careers of their employees. Competency-Based Performance Reviews includes sample phrases to use on reviews, as well as sample accomplishment statements to guide employees to improving and writing their own.

Do you want the key to the best jobs with the best employers? It's time to play offense instead of defense. Competency-Based Resumes shows today's job candidates a new, more targeted way to write resumes to get them back on the same playing field with the best employers and improve their odds of winning the job they want. The system an employer uses when filling jobs has changed significantly in the past few years, and it is still evolving. Rather than simply looking at an applicant's past jobs, companies are instead looking at candidate's experiences in certain key areas-including measurable work habits and the personal skills, known as competencies, used to achieve objectives at work.Competency-Based Resumes offers you a new and effective way to create resumes that emphasizes the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you have and employers need. Many sophisticated U.S. and international organizations are using competency-based systems to recruit, interview, select, and promote. Corporations such as American Express, Coca-Cola, Sears, and MetLife are all looking for specific competencies.

People interviewing for jobs today often fail because they are using yesterday''s strategies. Technology is becoming more sophisticated and virtual assessment centres are being used to assess how strong candidates are in key competency areas. Global competencies are being used to help organisations choose people for international assignments or simply to work on diverse international teams. The best employers are constantly changing the way interviews are done. This newly revised edition of COMPETENCY-BASED INTERVIEWS offers you a new and more effective way to handle the tough new interviews so that you will emphasise the knowledge, skills and abilities that you have and that employers demand.Preparing for a competency-based interview will give you the strategy you need to:┬╖Be selected for the most competitive positions┬╖Win the best job at a new organisation┬╖Get a great first job or internship┬╖Be chosen for that critical promotion in your current organisation┬╖Take control of your career path ┬╖Increase your salary┬╖Secure more interesting assignments and more interesting work