SKILLS FOR MANAGERS - 06 Appraise and Give Feedback is a course that provides simple practical skills and strategies for performance evaluations and feedback. Appraisals should be motivating and complemented by ongoing feedback and career discussions.
In this course, psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry discuss how appraisals can be mutually respectful and worthwhile for the employee and their manager/employer. This requires exercising responsibility and initiative, recognizing what demotivates people, solving problems together, setting clear performance standards.
- Ensure respectful career conversations and appraisals
- Agree on performance standards
- Give regular specific constructive feedback and acknowledgment
- Seek specific feedback
- Find out what motivates and demotivates people and help people feel engaged
- Discuss and solve problems together
- Take responsibility for your own appraisals if your manager is letting you down
