4 Evaluating Your Employees

Now you’ve got your evaluation forms and all your documentation and notes and so on. Now it’s time to evaluate your employees.

Whether you’ve got one employee or one hundred, treat each as an individual. Allow enough time for each evaluation and focus appropriately on each employee as if he or she were your only one. This is what we do here: focus on how you should prepare for each of your employees.

Actually, you should start the preparation about a month in advance of scheduling appraisal meetings. Meet with all of your employees as a group and explain the purpose for the performance appraisals and how you and they will do their appraisals. Tell them what’s going to happen before they meet with you individually and ...

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