Performance Management FAQ
What should one do with an irate employee during an performance review?
Ask the employee to create actionable and measurable performance goals and to provide periodic progress reports. Also, try holding less formal monthly or quarterly feedback reviews instead of one long annual review.
How can a manager evaluate soft skills such as being a team player?
Such skills are important but can be hard to measure objectively. One method is ask other team members to document examples of the employee's efforts in cooperation, forging relations, resolving issues and completing group projects.
How does a manager mandate continued employee training and development?
Staying current on applicable specialized knowledge is critical to job performance. One method of encouraging this to make it a line item in the performance review. To make it effective, the employee must demonstrate measurable ways that the training was used to enhance work performance and benefit the team.
Should a manager give equal time for all for performance management?
Managers should spend more time developing outstanding employees rather than waste resources babysitting mediocre employees who simply don't want to improve that much. Commonly, managers spend too much time on underperformers at the expense of growing the overperformers.
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