{"id":616,"date":"2009-02-05T09:54:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T08:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2009-02-05T09:54:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T08:54:38","slug":"feedback-and-appraisals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/feedback-and-appraisals\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback and Appraisals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran a training session for a group of 15 managers from a favourite client of mine yesterday on How to Make Appraisals Work.\u00a0 I started the session as I often do with a question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you are being appraised what is it that you most want to get from the process?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first answer I got?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We want feedback!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words we work all year and this is the one opportunity to get feedback on how we have done.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the most common problems in making appraisals work.\u00a0 Managers store up feedback throughout the year and then try to fire it all off at appraisal time.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback should be given little and often throughout the year to influence behaviour and performance in real time.\u00a0 Not in the annual feedback fest that is sometimes called appraisal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some thoughts on Best City outcomes\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/some-thoughts-on-best-city-outcomes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some thoughts on Best City outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/getting-to-grips-with-social-finance-free-training\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Improving Employability&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/15\/improving-employability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Improving Employability&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Inward Investment &#8211; What&#8217;s the problem?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/01\/inward-investment-a-dummies-guide\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Inward Investment &#8211; What&#8217;s the problem?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Why I am not Celebrating Job Creation by the Supermarkets\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/03\/20\/why-i-am-not-celebrating-job-creation-by-the-supermarkets\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why I am not Celebrating Job Creation by the Supermarkets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran a training session for a group of 15 managers from a favourite client of mine yesterday on How to Make Appraisals Work.\u00a0 I started the session as I often do with a question: When you are being appraised what is it that you most want to get from the process? The first answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32,34,42,82,123,147,148],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-management","tag-change","tag-communication","tag-culture","tag-feedback","tag-management","tag-performance-improvement","tag-performance-management","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}