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When I was working for Corporate, yearly evaluations were the norm. I noticed that every employee would skip over the ten pages of recognitions for job well done, and immediately look at the “Areas for improvement” on the last page.
It frustrated me as a manager, because it completely imbalanced the focus of our conversation.
The truth is that people get a lot more traction from focusing on what they’re good at rather than what they’re not.
Read the rest of this entry »At the end of the year, it’s common to work on employee evaluations. Which can be a real downer for everyone involved.
If you think about it, they’re not really doing much about what can be affected: the future. So we’re doing it to justify how we have to make management decisions about pay, promotions, job roles and such.
The employee doesn’t get much value out of the whole experience, to be honest.
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The Values-Based Business 