Idea 89: Appraising performance
Remember that your aim in an appraisal is to improve performance. Therefore you have to be skilled at communicating your perceptions of both the strengths and the weaknesses of the individual concerned. You must have data or information at hand to back up any observation you give. Above all, you must put your suggestions across so that they are acceptable and actionable by the individual. The best way to do that is to ask the individual to appraise his or her own performance against the organization's standing or continuing aims and specific objectives. Then agree with him or her an action plan for the future.
Thus, the function of appraising an individual's performance is only useful if it is the prelude to some ...
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