What Is Appraisal? Transform Your Team through Effective Appraisal

Appraisal is "to

estimate the amount

or worth of".

Appraisal means

measuring

performance against

expectations over

time. In "Effective

Performance

Appraisal", Robert

Maddux defines

"appraisal" as: "...an

opportunity for

communication

between the person

who assigns work

and the person who

performs it, to

discuss what they

expect from each

other and how well

these expectations

are being met."

"Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything

they do that I see is good." (David Brandt Berg)

"People don't dislike appraisals; they dislike bad appraisals."

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Effective appraisals will always contain seven key components... 1. a re-statement of the key result areas of the job 2. a review of work done 3. information about the organisation 4. an enhancement of the boss-subordinate relationship 5. a recognition of good work 6. greater self-awareness on the part of the appraisee 7. agreement about future plans.

In one renowned experiment into the effect of feedback on

performance, Gage asked 3600 school-children to assess their teachers on a 12-point rating

scale. When the teachers saw the results, they improved on 10

of the 12 scales.

The Benefits of Appraisal

Appraisals give managers chance to re-state the key areas of the job. These are, quite simply, what you are paid for.

Review is an essential step in the process of managing anything, be it costs or people. It is the stage when you take stock, see what happened, weigh up, and think ahead.

Professor Hal Leavitt says that performance improves in relation to the amount and accuracy of the feedback we get, whether good or bad.

Most of a manager's "people" time is spent on poor performers and not so much on the quiet heroes. Appraisal re-dresses the balance.

One of the greatest services a manager can perform is to awaken people to their full potential. Appraisal can be an eye-opener for some people.

Appraisal is the time to close the book on the past and open the book to the future: for individual, team, and organisation.

." "The golfer

who doesn't count his

shots is only there for the

walk.”