
How to Prepare for a Performance Appraisal
- Performance Management
A performance appraisal is supposed to be an improvement-based course of action instead of a reserved evaluation that takes place every year.
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A performance appraisal is supposed to be an improvement-based course of action instead of a reserved evaluation that takes place every year.
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The absolute key to excellent Performance Management is that it’s an every-day part of management, not a once-in-a-while discussion of what isn’t working.
Springing bad news on an employee during an appraisal usually means you’ve been avoiding the day-to-day performance management of team members.
Do appraisals work? If you are thinking about tweaking or overhauling your appraisal process, here are some things for you to think about.
If you have a problem in your organisation, look up the ladder and not down for its cause.
Every employer faces internal problems that include employee differences, unmet company expectations, and lack of productivity to name just a few.
Forward-thinking business leaders get the most out of their management training investment.
Good managers are good delegators: the more they give away, the more they develop other people’s skills and stretch their capacity.
It should be a continuous development process rather than a one-time fix-it approach.
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Multinational companies have the great advantage of working in and with different cultures to make their products and services accessible to a far wider community.
As far as the monkeys know that’s the way it’s always been done around here!
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Standing up to bullying behaviour is easy to say yet hard to do. But if you don’t they’ll pick on you more!
Facilitation is the thing that’s needed to get people out of routine, to stop people time-wasting and to get things moving forward.
Good facilitators see and hear not only the obvious but are tuned in to what else might be going on that isn’t quite so apparent.
Teams are stronger than individuals, but you have to put the work in to get the results out.
Delegation is an art, a key management skill that involves a lot more than just getting the work done.
When dealing with difficult people, stay out of it emotionally and concentrate on listening non-defensively and actively.
In many organisations when radical change is necessary to fight stagnation and apathy, managers deliberately introduce conflict to raise the intensity of a group.
If you can take charge of a situation with the aim of resolution, then conflict is indeed something to be relished and not avoided.
Is there a situation in your workplace that requires an intervention? Don’t know where or how to start?