Performance Talk:
The One-on-One Part of Leadership

Performance Talk: The One-on-One Part of Leadership by Wally Bock

Want to be a better boss? The difference between a good manager and a great one is often the ability to talk to your staff about their performance. Now there’s a book filled with effective and practical advice on how to do it: Wally Bock’s innovative Performance Talk: The One-on-One Part of Leadership.

Using a fictional supervisor, Karen, Bock teaches you how to motivate your people, influence their behavior and help them reach their full potential. Based on solid behavioral science research, this wise and enjoyable book provides a system that helps you prepare for and conduct supervisory interviews that get results.

Each chapter includes specific key points, reminders, learning aids and resources for further development.

• You’ll learn how to use the personal styles and strengths of your people to your advantage.
• You’ll discover how to improve your odds that conversations with subordinates will come out the way you want.
• And you’ll have specific tools for analyzing performance problems, setting objectives, and planning and carrying out supervisory interviews.

This is not just another business book. It’s the one manual you need to make the most of being a manager.

This site will help you do two things. If you want to be a better manager, especially in the trick, one-on-one part of the job, you will be able to determine if Performance Talk is a book that will help you do better job.

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