| I've already mentioned employee dread of | | | | clock, I came to hear it strike." People want to feel |
| performance reviews; but what about the managers | | | | useful to and part of an organization, and recognized |
| giving the reviews? Surveys report that managers | | | | for their contributions. A one-sided lecture based on |
| also harbor a strong dislike for performance reviews, | | | | vague ideas about each employee (this is some |
| oftentimes because an organization's employee | | | | managers' idea of a performance review) is likelier to |
| performance development is often lacking. Oftentimes, | | | | do much more harm than good for employee |
| supervisors have a difficult time remembering the | | | | development. |
| major achievements of each employee in a given | | | | A learning management system (LMS) can help solve |
| year, let alone their goals, development, and other | | | | this problem. LMS performance management removes |
| contributions. | | | | the focus on the performance review itself. Instead, it |
| Short memories on the managerial end and insufficient | | | | places an emphasis on the whole picture, beginning to |
| time spent on goal-setting and performance | | | | end, of performance management and improvement |
| assessment throughout the year often make annual | | | | strategies. These include employee training and |
| reviews unfair, inaccurate and worst of all, ineffective. | | | | cross-training, dynamic lessons and assignments, |
| Lack of preparation for a performance review | | | | employee performance improvement, performance |
| communicates that you do not take the review | | | | development, comprehensive feedback and |
| seriously, and you can safely assume that neither will | | | | performance feedback. |
| the evaluated employee. | | | | The cost of using an LMS to manage performance |
| Why are performance reviews important in the first | | | | development and feedback is low and even free in |
| place? Study after study shows that successful | | | | some cases, but the value is great. An investment in |
| organizations are the ones whose employees have a | | | | systematic performance development is an |
| sense of "we". It's like what the poet William Butler | | | | investment in your most precious resource-your |
| Yeats once wrote: "Because I helped to wind the | | | | people. |