Appraisals: Learn How To Love Them

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Appraisals have a pretty bad reputation in many organizations. Managers dread having to give them and employees hate having to take them. But by simply focusing on 7 high-value components of appraisals, you can turn them into one of the most important activities you perform and start to love them. Here are those 7 features.

1. Re-state The Key Areas. Appraisals give managers and employees the chance to re-state the key result areas of the job. These are, quite simply, what people are paid for. For a manager, they might be: Production; Quality; Costs; Safety; Staff. For an engineer, they might be Repair; Maintenance; Installation; Improvements. An appraisal is like the follow-up to a recruitment interview. Just as the recruitment interview at the start of employment looks at the key areas of a job and the person’s skills in these areas, so the appraisal at regular intervals throughout employment looks at how key areas have changed and whether the employee’s skills need to change with them.

2. Check How Theyre Doing. Taking time out to review past performance is a necessary step in making plans for the future. Instead of continuing as...

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