Business Management & Leadership Skills - How to Give an Effective Employee Evaluation

My name is Gloria Campbell, I'm with Advances Training Systems located in St. Petersburg, Florida. And how to give an effective employee evaluation is one of those areas I've trained a number of companies and organizations on. There are some keys. The first thing is plan the time for the evaluation and make sure you give the employee plenty of notice. There's nothing worst than calling an employee in and spur the moment and say, "okay, I'm going to give you your evaluation". The next thing you want to do is you always want to have a copy for you and a copy for the employee. You also want to listen to the employee, you want to give them an opportunity to dialogue about things that are on the evaluation. And you also want to make sure that they have an opportunity to respond. In some cases, the employee may agree with you, in some cases they may disagree with you. The other piece of an effective evaluation is that you want to have answers to particular performance issues. If it's the individual is, doesn't use Word for instance, to the extent that you think they should. Are you willing to provide training? Are you willing to provide an opportunity for them to have extra time in the office to get their skill level up. The purpose of an evaluation is that you will know where the employee will stand but most importantly, the employee will know where they stand. Any deficiencies will be improved, any positive behavior will be continued. My name is Gloria Campbell, I'm with Advances Training Systems in St. Petersburg, Florida. And research shows that feedback is what employees value. It doesn't matter whether its a negative or positive, they value that more than no feedback at all.