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Here Is A Quick Way To Improve Your Performance Review



Here Is A Quick Way To Improve Your Performance Review
   

Career and Performance Review – What A Waste Of Time!

Then you will be having Performance Reviews with your staff. If you’re not or you are but they aren’t effective, then you are missing out on a great opportunity to motivate your staff.



As a manager, you're going to be faced with a number of tricky management issues - dealing with tardiness, sick leave, difficult customers, budgets, measures and keeping your staff motivated.

Performance reviews can be useful for motivating employees, but only if they are accurate. An inaccurate review, which fails to recognise the employee's value to the organisation, can be worse than no review at all.

If a performance review fails to take note of an employee's shortcomings, it won't be taken seriously.

If an employee consistently performs poorly, it's vital to document this, as well as any corrective action that is taken.

Your staff may be genuinely unaware that their performance in some areas is poor (or exceptional!), unless you tell them.

Most employers conduct performance reviews annually, in order to decide on salary increases and bonuses. Since performance reviews should build on previous reviews, it's better to conduct them more regularly - every 4 months is a good frequency.

Employees thrive on feedback, and regular performance reviews provide a consistent framework for providing positive reinforcement.

Under-performing employees can also benefit. Regular reviews can identify weak performance areas, and allow you to set clear goals and expectations, and to coach and mentor the employee to improve their performance.

Objectivity is vital. You need to concentrate on measuring performance, and not on quirks of personality.

The performance review should relate directly to the employee's job profile - your employees do have job profiles, or job descriptions, don't they? The job profile should identify the Key Performance Areas for the job. For instance, some Key Performance Areas for a receptionist might be:

* answer incoming calls within 3 rings

* take messages accurately and pass them on quickly

* type at a rate of 25 words a minute

The more measurable a Key Performance Area, the better.

Some other measurable Key Performance Areas include:

* number of customer complaints

* number of customer compliments

* number of co-worker complaints

Of course, you would have to keep accurate records of all of these.

You should prepare a performance review form for each employee, which lists the Key Performance Areas for the job, and provides a matrix for you to record the performance in each area.

For example, you might rate the employee's performance in each Key Performance Area against a scale of
'Poor, Satisfactory, Good, Very Good, Excellent'

Performance reviews should be a collaborative process - as far as possible, the employee should agree with your assessment.



How do you prepare for your own Performance Review?



Here Is A Quick Way To Improve Your Performance Review - To learn more about this author, visit Andrew Rondeau's Website.

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