Continuous Performance Management -- the new industry standard for igniting employee engagement and boosting productivity and profitability in today's modern workplace. However, the truth is that technology is a tool, not a magic bullet. It's actually the manager-employee relationship that's the key to employee engagement, and adding a layer of technology could create more problems than it solves. Positively Managing Performance is written as a user's guide for managers of people searching for help when it comes to managing employees and their performance. It's one-part textbook, packed with the leading research on continuous performance management, employee performance, engagement and productivity, and one-part workbook, offering a step-by-step roadmap for setting expectations, handling employees' emotional reactions to feedback, conducting effective one-on-ones, duplicating performance using the author's Manager Multiplier Effect process and much, much more! Sharrell Kline's background and passion for positive performance management in the performance management arena for helping managers of people positively address employee performance in a way that makes managers more confident and effective and employees more engaged and productive.