Writing a ! Performance ! Review

By David Mauricio

Refer to !predetermined standards Start out by listing all of the

outcomes that you and your! employee agreed to, and! then follow each with a! description of what your! employee did to achieve ! them

Cite !examples

• Just saying “you didn’t meet expectations” doesn’t help anybody!

• Incorporate specific examples into the evaluation !

• The employee will know what they can do to improve going forward

Use facts• Make

sure every state-ment is backed up by cold hard facts!

• You can easily argue with opinion, but you can’t argue with facts

Write to the! employee

Keep the tone! more personal! so the employee! feels like! they’re being talked to, not talked at

Balance out your commentsEven the best worker can benefit from a suggestion for improvement, and even the worst! employee has done! at least something! right