The elimination of the painful yearly charade of sitting with your manager taking 15 minutes to agree on what was your fault and agree on what ‘Exceeded Expectations’ vs. ‘Below Expectations’ – is a left over practice that is only culturally accepted as “this is how we have always done things”
An individual’s performance is the relationship between targeted output and achieved output. Personal effectiveness appraisals are judgments made by an individual’s manager about how well the subordinate has done in producing the outputs, taking into consideration all of the relevant circumstances.
Every company seeks an alchemic formula that can turn a poor into a good and a good into a great performer. This happens with blind ignorance of the systemic messages being sent and how they contradict with the expectations.
Changing the appraisal / evaluation period from once yearly to monthly allows you as the manager and the employee to work in shorter time, adjust and move together towards shared work goals. This way either one of you can adjust and improve your performance in a time-span that allows for improvement and feedback.
What are you accountable for? How can others help you in accomplishing your accountability?
Sounds easy right? Try it, then when you think you have the answer randomly ask 5 people who work in your department the same question. My guess is you will not find many responses that are the same. And that is frustrating for everyone.
In an earlier post “7 Ways Managers Can Evaluate Effectiveness of Other Managers” We explored 4 key processes and systems that all managers must do. In this post we will explore sources to gather information about manager subordinate effectiveness.
Gathering sufficient information for Managers to evaluate the effectiveness of subordinate managers is possible.
“I hate doing these yearly performance evaluations”
“What is it you hate so much?”
“They are no-where near accurate and often times I feel forced to use recent information to determine employee performance.”
“What would be better?” His eyes starred at the ceiling and I could tell the thought was there.