Evaluating Performance

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A Step A Day, performance evaluation, performance standards

At a coaching review, a manager said to me ” The toughest part of employee appraisal is not evaluating employee performance but convincing the employee after that”. I could understand what he meant. The tough part was getting the employee to accept the basis for the evaluation.

Organizations spend huge amounts of money in putting together a formal performance evaluation process. If you ask me, I would say that the most important part of this process is the last bit. Where the manager sits down in front of the employees and conducts a dialogue on his/her evaluation. If this part is weak, as is the case in many organizations as per my experience, no amount of work in earlier parts of the appraisal process is worth it.

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General Review- A Step A Day.

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A Step A Day, self-development

The series called “A Step A Day” was started with this objective: To provide perspective and provoke thought to facilitate self-development across a wide spectrum of issues- big and small- crucial for executive success.

One of the points of interest for me in writing “A Step A Day” is to come up with a different theme each day. There are advantages and disadvantages of following a single theme. For instance, if I were writing about “Effective Meetings “and did a series of 5 posts on this, I recognize it might be easier for the reader to digest. However, wouldn’t it be rather monotonous for the reader?

The current practice enables me to write about topics which cover a wide spectrum of issues. A quick look at the posts indicate that the last 5 were on:

• Training Facilitation- Kinds of Participants
• Teamwork
• Competency Model
• Team Building
• Better to be Over Dressed than Under Dressed

I feel the present practice makes for more interesting reading. What are your views?

As far as the content is concerned, I try to achieve a balance of anecdotal incidents based on my own experience as well as general information through links to websites that provide good information on the topic. I recognize that readers are busy people so providing links helps them see material in greater depth at their convenience.

Length of the post is another issue. I have tried to keep the posts within 500 words, if not less. Too short a post makes it difficult to give detail. Too long a post loses reader attention. This is a tough one with perhaps no right answer. I would say it largely depends on the individual reader.

The objective of this post is to get feedback on the “A Step A Day” series. Your views and suggestions for improvement are most welcome.

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