Performance Management for Agile Organizations

“Tim Baker is at the front line of assisting managers to make sense of increasingly challenging workplace environments. This provocative book prods a few sacred cows of performance management and encourages managers to think, feel and act differently so that they can be effective when faced with a multitude of performance scenarios – many of which are likely to be completely new.”

Dr Geoff Abbott, Director, Executive Coaching Programs, Graduate School of Business, QUT

The End of the Job Description

Building on the phenomenal success of The End of the Performance Review, Baker examines four essential ‘Non-Job’ roles that all employees must fulfil and shows how to create meaningful role descriptions that can help you recruit better people and enable them to deliver better results.

Conversations at Work

(Co-author Aubrey Warren)

Organizations are about conversations. For any organization to achieve its goals, people need to interact and those interactions require dialogue and conversation. Yet, thanks to technology, we seem to be having fewer genuine conversations. This book seeks to change this, through 'how to skills' and wider cultural change advice.

The New Influencing Toolkit

Without influence, managers are ineffective. In today's workplace, managers need to influence up, down and increasingly, sideways as organizations become less hierarchical. This book is expertly designed to diagnose and develop managerial influence, focusing on four key strategies: investigating, calculating, motivating and collaborating.

Attracting and Retaining Talent

Many companies are striving to adopt an 'employer of choice' strategy in an attempt to attract and retain quality staff, although few do this well. This book offers a practical roadmap for developing a more productive workplace culture; one that reflects the changing needs of the modern employee and the progressive organisation.

The End of the Performance Review

'I believe this book will revolutionize the way we appraise performance in the modern workplace.' - Brent D. Peterson, Ph.D., co-author of Fake Work: Why People are Working Harder Than Ever but Accomplishing Less, and How to Fix the Problem

A thoroughly tested, distinctive alternative to the appraisal process that draws on well-established principles of organizational behavior. Based around Tim Baker's Five Conversations Framework, and with a timely focus on fostering innovation, this book is practical and easy to use – featuring case studies, interviews and useful templates.