Don Clark, who is a prolific internet poster and website owner and I had a conversation about understanding the differences between concept and skill. Although we didn’t solve the issue, it’s interesting for trainers, since what we teach affects (or should) how we teach.
Don starts off (the parts with the >)
Performance appraisals are probably the most misused, and goofed-up management tool in existence. Starting from misunderstanding the whole point of appraisals, right on through to use of poor communication with employees, managers make a fairly consistent set of mistakes about employee reviews , and performance appraisals. Here’s some of them in the fourth in our series of common managerial mistakes.
Since there are a fair number of errors made by managers in the performance appraisal and employee review process, we’ll approach this set in brief point form. Stay tuned since we’ll be dealing with a few more performance appraisal errors in a future article in this series. Until then here’s the first five.