performance

Performance Appraisal is a quarterly or half yearly or yearly activity carried out by companies to check performance of employees. It is a system to check the performance of individual employees for promotion, salary increment or bonus. But this very system to check the performance can cause problems in the smooth working of the organization. A lot of gossips and rumor keeps mongering among employees. They are without head and tail and are carried out by those who are not happy with their performance reviews and feedback.

We all have 365 days in a year, 7 days in a week and 24 hours in a day. There is no one in this whole world who is gifted with extra hours and extra days but yes the performance is different. Let us discuss it as to why some people are able to achieve everything which they desire in life and others cry for more time. Friends it is all about time management, priorities and best utilization of time. I have already discussed a lot on time management in my previous articles so i will concentrate more on best utilization of time. What is it ?

No communication - Leads to miscommunication. It is always recommended to stay in communication as absence of communication causes negative talk. There are various situation which arises when we cannot speak or state a problem directly and avoid it which leads to aggravation of problem. Every individual has to realize the need for communication. The employees need to be in direct communication with the employers and need to disclose their work with them so that at the time of appraisal they are in good books of the top management.

Role play refers to changing of one's behavior to assume a particular role. Trainers conduct role plays to give practical demonstration of what has been studied by the audience. The audience size may vary from 30, 60 to 100 or more. Form groups according to names of colors, seasons, months in a year or days in a week. Once done ask the members to sit in their respective groups. If a group contains 10 participants the trainer should be able to provide topics where whole group can participate.

Following things should be kept in mind before preparing topics for role play -

Employees are backbone of an organization. They make an organization succeed or fail. Recruitment is the process of tapping right talent for the Corporation. Companies have methods to recruit more effectively by measuring 'time to fill' and 'cost per hire'. Time to fill is the time gap for recruiting the new employee and cost per hire is the cost incurred in hiring new employee. These methods help in measuring the employees performance to a small extent as it is followed just during hiring process.

Getting a promotion and not happy about it ? Facing sleepless nights ? Remaining restless ? You are probably facing promotion anxiety. Everyone works hard for good performance and to get promotion. There are few whose works gets recognized and their dream comes true. They are happy about it but after sometime feels out of place. They get demoralized and their performance deteriorates. This happens with almost every person leaving a few. There is nothing to worry. We have to take few measures so that we move out of that anxiety and not live in it.