Performance Appraisals: Measure Results Not Personality During Reviews
As I have mentioned before, conducting performance appraisals is not an exact science. You will always look at an employee through the eyes of your biases and personal values.
In performance reviews, you need to measure the results and the performance of the individual or team, and not the personality of the person. Reviews based on personality traits or characteristics are by their very nature flawed, biased and a total waste of time.
If you personally believe in being in the office at the crack of dawn and not leaving until late in the evening, you will judge your employees on whether or not they do the same. The problem is that there is always more than one way to get a job done. Just because you do it your way, doesn’t mean that it is the perfect way, or there isn’t another way that will generate the same results.
The bottom line is you need to focus on observable, job-related behaviours and their outcomes and not what you interpret the employee’s personality to be.
Until next time
Ingrid Cliff
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