title: One important way to get the best performance from staff.
abstract: Good communication about expectations is essential to encouraging the best performance from staff. An excellent tool for fostering this communication is the performance evaluation. Used correctly, it can open a dialogue that can lead to agreement between the supervisor and staff member on areas that need to be improved and ways to do so.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Goldstein
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003797:Dental Staff; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006801:Humans; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods; D011215:Practice Management, Dental