Using Performance Appraisals to Enhance Employee Performance
By Donna Price
The annual performance appraisal is an opportunity to enhance employee performance and create greater success for the company and the individual. My intent is to explore how coaching skills can be used in creating a good performance appraisal experience for both the employee and the supervisor and how to keep good performance going throughout the year. As a manager for 18 years my experience was that performance appraisals were a tense time for the employee and the supervisor. In either position Trevon Wesco Jersey , for me it often felt uncomfortable, so how do we reframe it so that it is a good experience for both?
Start With Vision:
It's important to start with vision: the company's and the employee's. What is the company vision? The company vision should be compelling and known by staff. When staff don't know the owner's vision for the company it is hard for them to help move it forward. Having a clear and compelling vision that employees can buy into provides a foundation for success.
But what drives the individual isn't the bosses vision, the company's vision, but their own compelling vision.
1. Employees can embrace the company vision but... 2. True success comes from within and from personal vision 3. Personal vision should be compelling and tie into the company vision 4. Do you know your employees dreams and visions for their lives and career
Take Time To Create A Vision:
If the employee hasn't thought about their vision Chuma Edoga Jersey , take the time to create a vision with them. Does their vision, their passion tie into the company vision? Can you as the supervisor help the employee to achieve their vision? What if their vision is your job? Well, that's great. As supervisors, managers and leaders part of our role is mentoring and developing our employees. It's great to have employees that are motivated to learn and grow. It's also great to have employees that know your job and can do it competently.
Compelling visions are personal Jachai Polite Jersey , written in the present tense, as if... they are happening now, and point to an exciting future. Encourage your staff to write their own compelling vision and share it with you.
Our Current Appraisal Framework:
Often the manager talks about issues that the employee didn't know was coming. Today we are talking about how to reframe the experience for both the employee and the manager. With the manager as a coach and partner committed to the employee's success the environment can shift. The goal is to reframe the experience, creating a positive Quinnen Williams Jersey , goal oriented environment that thrives on success and enhancing performance. In working with many groups of people solving problems, when they focused on what was going well and built upon it they were more successful than when they worked on what the problems were that they were having and what they needed to improve. In focusing on solutions, they ultimately identified the things that needed improvement as well.
It's important to recognize your feelings about performance appraisals and to imagine the employee's perspective.
1. History of being an uncomfortable experience 2. Reframe the experience & create a positive, goal oriented environment that thrives on success Jamal Adams Jersey , enhancing performance 3. An opportunity to tune into the person and find out what is going on with them 4. Create a plan for the upcoming year. 5. Most individuals (most employees) want to be successful
Use Coaching Skills to Develop Success And Excellence:
Where are we at now? After you have created a compelling vision, find out where we are at right now, using five key coaching questions you can quickly get to where the employee is at. In these questions you have the opportunity to create powerful positive energy, find out what the gaps are and what the resources needed are. In talking about what would be ideal you are also focusing a bit back on the vision Sam Darnold Jersey , but you are also pointing in the direction that you need to go- so how do we get there?
1. When meeting with a staff member: * Be present * Tune into them and tune out everything else * See their greatness 2. Use Five Coaching Questions: * What's going right? url=http://www.airmaxshoeswholesalechina.com/]Wholesale Mens Air Max[/url]