Performance Evaluation Tips
January 11, 2008
Does performance evaluation make you shiver just a bit? Not so fun right for the boss or employee? But, this does not have to be the case.
1. Make a habit of routine evaluations, at least once a year, but frequently give feedback, direction, and coaching. Do not wait and simply be a person reacting to issues and problems.
2. Use a simple tool like this Employee Performance Review. There are self, and management review sheets. Perhaps you cover issues in addition to those listed here, but having something like this as a guide certainly keeps you from shooting from the hip, or being blind to issues that need to be confronted.
3. Meet in threes. Have your employees meet with their immediate and upper supervisor. This helps everyone, and also allows young supervisors to continue to be coached.
4. Yes, I am talking to you as ministers. Do yourself a favor and don’t assume that you are exempt from this practice as a church. The folks who work, serve, and minister for your congregation need contact and direction from the pastor/boss.
5. Use this as a powerful time for praise and vision casting. Please don’t let your review time be a time to unload everything that folks are doing wrong. Yikes. Restate the vision, and give solid praise for jobs well done.
6. As a church, be careful for what you are measuring. One powerful benchmark is a values statement. Do you have one?
Use the gift of performance reviews.
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