2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results

by Paul Falcone

This trusted reference puts thousands of ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items right at your fingertips — perfect for review time, creating development plans, and monitoring performance year-round.

Whether you're an HR professional or a manager, chances are there's one task you really giving performance reviews. Even if you know the basic points you want to get across, finding the right words and committing them to paper is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist.

This phrasebook puts the right words in your hands with phrases that managers, supervisors, and HR professionals can use to help them properly evaluate performance and make the whole process much smoother.

In 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews, renowned career expert Paul Falcone covers the 25 most commonly-rated performance factors

productivity,time management,teamwork,decision making, and more!Falcone also shares job-specific parameters that apply in sales, customer service, finance, and many other areas and industries. 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews is useful not just for review time but will also be instrumental in creating job descriptions and development plans as well as monitoring performance, progress, and problems year-round.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Management, Leadership, Reference, Professional Development, Self Help

246 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 10, 2005

Reviews

[Coloradobetta · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great companion to the FYI series by Korn Ferry.

[Elle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good resource

I’ve used this book 2 years in a row to assist with my employees’ performance reviews. I’ve used it as a starting point. I’m surprised Interpersonal skills, Participation, and Achieves Business Results were not part of the Core Competencies. None of the job titles and roles apply to what my employees do so I pull portions out of various places and then do additional research on websites and other books.

[Kirby Ingles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Effective and plentiful

There are lots of examples of effective statements and bullet points to make as a roster or evaluator. Easily digestible and well organized. Came in useful for some of my more difficult people who had sub-par evaluations. Found some gems for the top performers that generated good ideas and quantifiable and qualitative appraisals.

[Ann Venkat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent starter resource

Loved the categorization of Phrases related to meets/exceeds/fails expectations which is exactly what managers need. The book could use more chapters on IT/digital related roles. It's an excellent resource to start a draft and/or augment reviews, both self assessment and as a people manager.

[Lynette Ledoux · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really good book to have on hand, especially when working on performance appraisals and coaching plans. This is one of my go-to references a few times a year. Therefore, it remains a standard on my bookshelf.

[Mckinley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful wording.

[Jannene · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is extremely helpful doing performance reviews for your employees. I recommended it to many of my peers.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok for catch phrases

[Brian Lueck · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the opening chapter establishes a good baseline for the purpose of performance reviews, and the appendices of verbs and adverbs is helpful, like a thesaurus for reviews.

[Juliet K · Rating 4 out of 5]

Friends, laugh at me if you want, but words are hard and professional words are harder. This is a book for a very specific need, but if you have that need, it is amazing.

[Christie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably could use some updating. I really like this list. It's given me ideas of where I need to improve as well as ideas as to what I should be looking for in others.

[Deirdre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful

[Tanya 313 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really helpful! I listened on Audible, but I think this would be better to own as a physical book so you can tab and refer back to different sections.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A big simplistic but it gets the job done

[Vanessa R.Shrauner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good inspiration - a little outdated in some terms

[XWXH020 · Rating 4 out of 5]

So useful! Don’t tell anyone I work with I read this, LOL! JK, I think if you need to write reviews, even just your own, this book is a gem. It’s not just like you copy stuff out. It just gives you a good template of how to construct sentences. Like I’ve always avoided adverbs but they’re pretty useful in reviews eg “reliably demonstrates”, “consistently focuses on”. But not only that it actually helps you think about the people you work with. Also you can easily invert the strengths and weaknesses as needed. REALLY useful book, surprised I didn’t give it five stars! I wonder why not....lol.

[Don Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not very impressed there are better books

I have used these types of books in the past. This one is mediocre. The one part of this book I may revisit will be the phrases related to lower performance as I have to complete any at risk evaluations.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an absolute life-saver for my current job. It really helped me to improve my reviewing capablilities and become a better manager. I recommend this to anybody in management.

[Joseph Workman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good HR book that is not only easy read but easy to implement. There is even a section of prewritten goals for specific jobs. Can't get any easier than that!

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[Kristen · Rating 3 out of 5]

good book for anyone that has to write reviews