Stop Telling Your General Feedback!

Performance evaluations come once or twice a year—and when they come, they are often a joke or not worth anyone’s time. Your employees dread them and get all of their yearly criteria together, while you are trying to mentally prepare yourself for them to critique your coaching and leadership abilities.

Both people sweat.

We worry about the unstated known and fear the potential factors called change and performance improvement.

Employees will run through questions like, “Will this evaluation really help my performance?” “Am I going to be motivated at all to work after this shaming?” “Do I get to speak up about my opinions and really show my point of view on my own work ethic?”

As the manager, it’s time to be ready to take these questions on and fully deliver feedback dripping with truth and wrapped in reality.

We want to give you some pocket advice to make sure your performance evaluations ACTUALLY do something good:

Shred your general feedback! Get rid of it!

Have your specific feedback ready. Most people work at a moderate level—they get their work done and then go home. Wash, rinse, repeat—every day. But, you want a team that thrives in your working environment, one that doesn’t just exist with little purpose.

People need specific feedback on what their strengths and weakness are. The delivery will be different for every person, but people need to hear where they can, and should, improve. It may be easier to mull over a performance review, but don’t you want a team that constantly improves their abilities and talent? People development should be a main priority as a manager.

Make yourself a list of talking points and questions for them. Be aware of who you are talking to and how they will take their criticism and coaching. Aim to encourage, and never forget that your team is counting on your leadership skills to bring them to a high level of success.

Be specific and truthful will help the individual, the leader, and the team to come together and achieve profound goals.

Finally, if you would like to learn how WorkCompass can benefit your performance feedback. Please get in touch today and request a demo our AI powered performance management software.