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Employee Appraisals Are Necessary

An employee evaluation is all about letting your employee know what it is that they are and are not doing well. If you are not conducting some sort of performance appraisal at least once a quarter then you are not only doing your employees a large disservice you are also neglecting your business as well. Because if an employee doesn’t know what they are doing wrong or that they could still use some improvement in an area how will they get better? And if they are not working to improve their job performance isn’t that detrimental to your business? Your employees are not mind readers. They need your input.

So what are you looking to accomplish in a formal employee evaluation? First off you want to facilitate better communication. Your employee needs to know that you are approachable. They need to understand that their evaluation is for their benefit. You want them to see that you are not trying to be critical but that you are trying to point out areas or their work that can be improved. With communication should come understanding between yourself as the employer and your employees.

Once you have established good communication then a it is necessary to give a thorough review of their job performance. Remember you are not trying to hurt them and damage their morale. You need to be pointing out the good as well as the bad in their performance. In this area you need to identify where they could use more training and determine ways that it might be provided. Also remember that this is two way communication. They need to know that they can speak up. You want them to be willing to identify areas where they think they are weak or where they would like to learn more but haven’t been able too.

As much as possible you will want to document the key points of your discussion so that you can refer to them during the next evaluation. This will allow you to clearly see where they have improved and in what areas they are still behind. Also keep in mind that your performance appraisal should be used as a guide to future promotion and raises for the employee. Most people would want to know if they have a chance for a future with your organization. If you run your business with an eye towards promoting from within then this is important to both of you. If your business is growing then you will need to determine who your key employees in that growth may be.

Consider the question that if you have worked for someone else at some time did you want to know how well you were performing in your job? Especially if you had been thinking of what your long term future with the business might be. Holding employee evaluation sessions is a key to the long term growth of your business. So even though you may consider it a task you do not care for it still needs to be done. For the good of both your employees and your business.

Cash Miller is an experienced entrepreneur and speaker who has spent over a decade as a small business owner. The years of experience in small business have given him insight into a variety of topics. If you are looking for more small business information you can go to http://www.smallbusinessdelivered.com.

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Managing Telework: Perspectives from Human Resource Management and Work Psychology

Managing Telework: Perspectives from Human Resource Management and Work Psychology: : Edited by three teleworkers with extensive experience as researchers and consultants Managing Telework provides an integrated and comprehensive account of the human resource management of teleworkers. It is a book for human resource managers and management consultants who manage and develop teleworking schemes, and will also appeal to researchers, students and teleworkers who need an understanding of the latest management thinking on telework. – read more.

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How To Create And Write A Position Description

When it comes to recruiting new people into your business, or expanding someone’s role, or identifying

where to add more resource into the business, it needn’t be that difficult.

Follow these 4 steps to start creating and defining roles within your business, and writing the necessary

Position Description:

1. Ask yourself these questions first:

  • What functions are being done poorly or not done at all?
  • Where do I/other team members need help?
  • Where do we need resources the most?
  • Where do we have resource gaps?
  • Where do we have bottlenecks?
  • Do we have any internal people who could do the job/perform this function?
  • What exactly do we need done?
  • What is the purpose of the role?
  • How does it fit in the organization overall?
  • Who would the role report to?

2. Decide on your budget, and the timing

This is critical. When developing growth strategies and their required structure with my clients, the addition

of more ‘heads’ is always accompanied by the related financial and sales planning.

You can ‘play with’ costs (eg: if we reduce general expenses by 5% we can employ a junior admin assistant), or you can ‘play with’ revenue (eg: if we can increase our sales by 5% a month within 3 months, we can employ a really experienced admin support person).

3. Decide on the level of experience you want/need

  • Match the role to the budget (pay less, get less)
  • Recruit experience (pay more, get more)
  • Trade-off against time required to coach vs higher cost, but self-starter

4. Write the Position Description

This should be easy now you know:

  • the purpose of the role
  • who the role would report to
  • what functions form part/all of that particular role
  • the experience level required

Defining the role is just one step in our latest 12-Step People Management System, a new product which I’ll be telling you more about in our next e-news. It will give you all the detail you need for each of the 12 steps, including templates, examples and checklists.

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The blueprint provides a simple 12-step process to easily recruit and manage the people in your business, save time and effort in adding new people to your team, and it will enable you to confidently delegate some people management activities to others in your business, by giving them a blueprint to follow!

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