Employee Performance Management and Performance Improvement Consulting Services: Grote Consulting

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Grote Consulting Corporation is dedicated to helping organizations, large and small, integrate best-practice performance management processes that fit your culture and workforce.

We offer customized consulting, implementation, and training services that can help you better manage and develop your most valuable resource - your people.

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Are Your Performance Management Systems Making the Grade?

	Is your Performance Appraisal System getting poor reviews?

	Does your Employee Discipline System deliver true performance improvement?

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Performance Improvement Quick Tip

Years ago, in one of the first rigorous studies of performance appraisal, General Electric discovered that criticism for an individual’s performance doesn’t usually result in much performance improvement.

What does work, the GE researchers found, was reinforcing the individual’s strengths and encouraging him to make even more use of those skills that were particularly well developed. Things haven’t changed. Building on strengths almost always provides better performance than trying to shore up weaknesses.

- Dick Grote

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News and Information

“Is Progressive Discipline a Thing of the Past?” That’s the provocative headline that writer Rebecca Hastings’s uses for her latest SHRM article. She quotes Dick Grote extensively on the need to refocus disciplinary action from a punitive process to one that concentrates on requiring people to take personal responsibility for their choices of behavior.

Many interviewees throughout Hastings’s article advocate using Dick’s Discipline Without Punishment approach. She concludes her piece by quoting Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D., author of the book, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: P.S. It's All Small Stuff: “Your job is very simple,” Mantell said, quoting from Grote’s book: “To help them become a good employee or an ex-employee.”

Looking for a Better Way to Improve the Performance of Your Organization?

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