
Written by
Sarah Brinton
Sarah Brinton is an Organization Success Team Member for BerniePortal and BerniePortal's sister company, Bernard Health. She has worked as an HR professional for four years and is responsible for assisting in keeping BerniePortal and Bernard Health going and growing.
How You Can Develop a Manager Handbook to Improve Employee Performance

If your organization doesn’t have a manager manual, you’re doing it wrong. Shockingly, most organizations barely give managers any training at all; the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found a few years ago that organizations with less than 100 employees gave only 12 minutes of manager training every six months. For organizations with 100 to 500 employees, that number is only six minutes.
In this episode of HR Party of One, we covered how employers and HR teams can develop and implement a manager manual for the organization.
What Should Be Included in the Manager Manual?
Central to any good performance management strategy is developing and maintaining a handbook of standardized processes and best practices. We call this the manager manual. In the new episode, I explained what these handbooks are, what should be included in them, and how a great manager manual can elevate HR's role within an organization.
Watch the full video here:
If you’d like to learn more about this and other industry updates, I recommend that you check out the BerniePortal blog.
Additional HR Resources
BerniePortal has a ton of great HR resources to help you out during this process and beyond:
- How to Write an Employee Newsletter Your Team Will Actually Read
- Answered: Is it Legal for People to Use FSAs and HSAs Together?
- Low Cost to Free Health Insurance is Now Available for Unemployed Americans
- Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) Explained

Written by
Sarah Brinton
Sarah Brinton is an Organization Success Team Member for BerniePortal and BerniePortal's sister company, Bernard Health. She has worked as an HR professional for four years and is responsible for assisting in keeping BerniePortal and Bernard Health going and growing.
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