Tips from November 19, 2009
The Small Business tips today discuss how to conduct performance reviews.
- Apply performance reviews
to everyone in the office. Be fair and consistent with all reviews. The
easiest way to do this is to create a template criteria sheet for every
performance review.
- Conduct your review first, and before
revealing it to the employee, ask them to evaluate themselves. The two
should match fairly closely. If not, it's a red flag that something is
not right. Talk the evaluation out and clarify expectations of their
role.
- Although it is hard, you need to indicate
poor performance. Be honest and straightforward about it, but don't be
brutal or harsh. If you have any examples of the poor performance,
document the behavior as it is happening.
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A performance review is not just to point out what the employee has been doing wrong. Use it to
show what they're doing right as well. It's just as important since positive reinforcement is more motivating
than a negative.
Daily Overview: Performance reviews are critiques
to change the behavior of every employee to do the best they can. Be
honest, fair, and objective.
We post these small business tips to our employee's Twitter account each day, Monday through Friday. This is a reposting of those tips.
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