Chapter 11. The Post-Appraisal Meeting

You’ve made it through the session; you’ve dodged the pitfalls and managed to honestly communicate with your employee. Together, the two of you have established some new short-term objectives and have refined the long-term career goals to suit new interests and new perceptions of opportunity. You’re ready to close the books on this performance appraisal, aren’t you?

Sorry, not so fast. You must still hold a final “post mortem” meeting to discuss salary and upcoming plans for new assignments, training, changed behavior, improved performance, and anything else that surfaced during the interview. It is in this meeting that the employee receives a final rating (i.e., the Overall Score) and learns of the merit ...

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