ASTD's Ultimate Performance Management: Training to Transform Performance Reviews into Performance Partnerships

Has the traditional performance review failed to live up to its promise? If you think so, Ultimate Performance Management is the book for you. It provides everything required to transform your organization’s performance review process into powerful performance coaching conversations that enable managers and performers to continually build skills over time. Get a complete background on performance management; guidelines for assessing your organization’s situation; and all the handouts, training instruments and tools, learning activities, and instructions you need for one-day or half-day workshops. If you want a comprehensive, practical roadmap to improved performance management, look no further.

About the Authors

Jeffrey and Linda Russell are founders and co-directors of Russell Consulting, Inc., headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. For more than 20 years, Russell Consulting has provided consulting and training services in leadership, strategic thinking and planning, leading change, employee quality of worklife surveys, organizational development, performance coaching, and performance management. Their diverse list of clients includes Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, social or nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.

Jeff's bachelor of arts in humanism and cultural change and master of arts in industrial relations are both from the University of Wisconsin. He serves as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Wisconsin—teaching for the Small Business Development Center, the Wisconsin Certified Public Manager Program, and a number of other certification programs with University of Wisconsin campuses. Jeff is a frequent presenter at local, state, regional, and international conferences.

Linda's bachelor of arts is in social work from the University of Wisconsin. She has completed graduate work in rehabilitation counseling, also at the University of Wisconsin. Linda specializes in designing and implementing job engagement and quality of worklife surveys and in facilitating team and organizational development interventions.

Jeff and Linda together have authored six additional books, including Leading Change Training (ASTD Press, 2003), Strategic Planning Training (ASTD Press, 2005), and Change Basics (ASTD Press, 2006). They publish Workplace Enhancement Notes, a journal of tips for leading organizations.

Within their vision to help create and sustain great organizations, Russell Consulting, Inc., integrates theory, research, and "real-world" experience in their daily consulting and training practice. Jeff and Linda help their clients find practical solutions in a world that too often offers strategies that are long on hype and short on substance.