{"id":1814,"date":"2013-11-17T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T03:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2014-04-22T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:39:48","slug":"get-employee-talking-performance-evaluation-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/resources\/get-employee-talking-performance-evaluation-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get an Employee Talking in the Performance Evaluation Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"performance.conversation\"<\/a>In the employee performance evaluation meeting you probably have the urge to do all the talking \u2013 to tell the employee what the evaluation document says (or worse yet, read the document to the employee).\u00a0 You tell the employee what you think of their performance.\u00a0 You tell the employee what you think they should do in the coming year. When you are talking, you feel in control.\u00a0 You don’t worry about the conversation turning bad as long as you have the floor, right?<\/p>\n

And on the other side of the table, the employee begins to feel as if they have little control over what is happening to them.\u00a0 They may begin to shrink back, feeling as if their ideas and contributions are not important. They may begin to stew about what you are saying.\u00a0 Essentially, they feel pain.<\/p>\n

Because performance management is something we do WITH employees, not TO employees, it is critical that the employee have an opportunity to contribute to the discussion.\u00a0 In fact one of the elements of a Painless Performance Evaluation<\/i><\/a> is that the employee talks more than the supervisor during the performance evaluation meeting.<\/p>\n

When you’re talking, you’re not listening and you’re not learning.\u00a0 It may be less painful for you, but it is certainly more painful for the employee.\u00a0 Effective leaders \u00a0know how to keep quiet and encourage employees to contribute to the performance evaluation conversation by asking some simple questions:<\/p>\n