Save Time Writing Performance Reviews
Sam Culbert, author of Get Rid of the Performance Review, editorialized in the Wall Street Journal about the why and how of eliminating the performance review. Though we hate the performance review in its current incarnation, we’re actually not in favor or eliminating it outright – unless you have a better system to replace it […]
We are an innovative society. Creative people used to be abnormal, now some measure of creativity is expected in all of us. Creativity and innovation in your job can make or break your career: the trick is balancing your creativity and innovating in the right way. Failures do occur in an innovative workplace: how you […]
Most companies have evolved from a “command and control” structure to one of at least a team based environment, if not a fully matrixed work environment. For the manager, this makes cooperation among teammates and among groups essential for success. For employees, receiving cooperation from other employees and other departments is often the only way […]
Many people (including this site) have encouraged dumping the current performance review process and replace it with a more effective system, however, we believe a great performance appraisal process can result in great things. We actually love the performance review process – when it’s part of an effective performance management cycle. There are some great […]
Communication on teams is essential for high performance and often one of the first things to break down. Team members and managers that promote healthy communication can turn bad situations into good ones, failing projects into successful projects, and poor performers into good employees. As with our other sample performance review phrases articles, we break […]
A good attitude is one of the most important traits an employee could have. I will take a pleasant and good attitude over almost anything else when I hire someone and would promote someone with a good attitude over someone who has a poor attitude, yet better job skills. A good attitude is so crucial […]
Attendance and punctuality is one of the simplest things to rate an employee on if you have accurate time keeping records. Unfortunately, this is also one of the touchiest areas as many employees do not like discussing being late or dealing with lunch and other breaks properly. However, you can be sensitive and firm by […]
The performance review is one piece of the performance management cycle. Unfortunately, countless managers have never had formal performance management training and simply do a performance review like a zombie once a year without any regard for the long term performance management opportunities available to them. The Performance Management Cycle has three components: Goal setting […]
We’ve consolidated some of our best Training performance review sample phrases in this article about writing performance appraisal comments for training. Copy these sample comments to help simplify the performance review process.
It’s not that Time Again, Is it? Unfortunately, I think this is most manager’s first thought when it comes time for annual performance appraisals. The annual performance review is a time for an employee to reflect on the previous year and a time for the manager to take an opportunity to explain what an employee […]