Its Performance Time ! Over the past 20+ years, I've both gotten performance reviews and given them in many of them too. As a manager, it’s something you do once per year. Sure, you might do quarterly reviews or semi-annual reviews to make sure associates are on track but everyone cares about the annual review. They are stressful for both the associate and the manager. Everyone asks, why I didn't exceed my goals and/or how does this impact my merit increase. Managers have to make extremely tough decision to do what is best both for the organization as well as to meet the budget guidelines we are given. I’d first like to ask the question, do most people even like getting their performance review? I suspect not. I’m guessing most would just like to hear the merit increase and move forward. Why? It’s probably because most performance reviews are so poorly given. I admit, I’ve done it myself. Most performance reviews seem to be rushed. We ...
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