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Is it that time of year again for you? Performance reports! Everybody loves performance reports, whether you’re giving them or receiving them…ok, nobody really likes performance reports. They’re kind of a pain. The trouble is we make them more difficult than they need to be. I’ve certainly made the mistake, and I’m sure a lot of you have too, of waiting until the last minute, then sitting down to try and remember some things that happened over the last few months. A year ago? There’s no way you’re going to remember that. The end result is, you complete the requirement, but the performance report doesn’t have a lot of value: it doesn’t really accomplish anything.
I found the easiest way to do performance reports is to start early. Keep track of what your workers are doing. Keep little notes. I don’t mean just “So and so was late for work,” or “They didn’t finish the project on time” You may want to remember those things; but what’s as important if not more important are the times they did an excellent job or finished a little early. When they were able to complete a project when they were really under the gun; when they developed something new they can do or accomplish. When you have all this written down, the performance report, is easy because all the information is already there, you just have to write it out. But the other benefit is that the performance report now becomes something worthwhile, something valuable. You can sit down with your workers and actually discuss things intelligently. You’re able to point out the great things they’ve done and help them develop to be even better.
Performance reports don’t have to be terrible things. They can be a fairly easy, and certainly valuable, addition to your day.
Think about this. Don’t you wish your boss did it that way?
