Performance Reviews

Well that was half a day wasted: being trained to give Performance Reviews. I learnt that they are a motivational tool to help employees achieve the company objectives. Therefore you shouldn’t be too critical about past mistakes, but instead focus on future improvements that can be made. Pay rises are not going to be linked to performance, because that might discourage employees from revealing where problems and underperformance occurred. Using “open questions” will help elicit information that the reviewee may otherwise not divulge. Silences shouldn’t be a worry, they may encourage the reviewee to divulge more. The DVD was mildly amusing, with various “problem” characters you might come across, or all of them if you’re me and really lucky. Even I’m losing the will to live with this post, better stuff will appear above (hopefully)