Tips to make your next performance appraisal powerful & effective

There are many ways to create effective employee performance review systems, but no matter the style of system, all successful systems share a few key elements. First, they are customized to the situation and the job description. Using a performance review template from the web or an e-book is a great start, but the template [...]

Many firms are starting a new cycle in their employee performance review process and this year it is even more challenging with the economic downturn. For both managers and employees employee performance appraisals can be a very stressful time. However, there are ways to turn this highly charged time of year into a constructive conversation [...]

With good performance review processes, you have the employee complete a self rating before you meet. Generally many employees rate themselves quite hard, or on par with your views of their performance. But what do you do if the person has rated themselves as exceptional on many areas and you think they are borderline competent [...]

Performance appraisals should never be conducted in isolation of the overall business direction. It is important to link each person’s goals and objectives back to the business overall goals and objectives. Unless each person can clearly see how their job contributes to at least one part of the business success, then they begin to wonder [...]

When scheduling your employee performance reviews, the temptation is to start with the person you have been itching to tell exactly what you think of them. This is the absolute worst thing you can do! Always start your employee performance reviews with the easiest person to review. That way you will reduce your nerves, get [...]

Managers often ask how much time should they spend appraising compared to planning for the future. I have a strong view that there should be no surprises during performance reviews. With that viewpoint I recommend managers spend more time planning for the future rather than focusing on the past at performance review time. If you [...]

t’s that time of year when many businesses start doing their employee performance reviews. There was an interesting study done by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Ethics Resource Centre (ERC). Only 23% of HR professionals surveyed had any form of comprehensive ethics or codes of conduct in place in their organisation [...]

Here is a copy of an article I published in my newsletter this week about 360 degree performance review. To subscribe to my weekly newsletters go to www.heartharmony.com.au. I was talking with a manager the other day about their employee performance review processes. This company had been doing them for some time and wanted to [...]

Recently I was asked if time and results were the only things you could use to measure employee performance. Here’s a snippet of my response.The most important thing to remember when measuring performance is that you are trying to measure the things that make the most difference (not just the things that can be measured). [...]

Performance reviews can be very serious – but they can also be funny. Check out the great employee review comments and what they “really” mean (as well as some very funny comments made on military performance appraisals). http://www.squidoo.com/employeeperformancereview. Until next time Ingrid Cliff