Employee Reviews & Ways They Can Benefit Your Business
Even without your own official HR department in place, it’s always a good idea to practice employee reviews. This not only provides the opportunity to strengthen your employees, but it also allows for your business to strengthen, as well. By taking some time during your employee review to get a “review” of your own, you can learn a lot about your business. Ask your employees questions that will allow you to gain valuable insight to how others view your business and possible ways to improve it.
Some suggested questions to help ignite a review of your business during an employees’ review include:
1. How can we help you become a stronger, more valuable employee?
2. Are there any guidelines we have in place that you think need to be altered? Why?
3. Are there any guidelines we don’t have that you think could help the overall business? Explain.
4. What current trends in the marketplace do you see taking place that we could leverage off of?
5. Are there any items in the product assortment of the store that you think we are missing? Why?
6. Are there any items in the product assortment that you think could be eliminated? Why?
7. How do you collectively see the employee working relationships in our company?
8. Can we do anything to help strengthen the overall morale of the company? Explain.
9. If you could change any two things about our company, what would they be? Why?
10. Do you enjoy working here?
Many of these questions are straight-forward and simple while others may provoke thoughts you might not want to hear. Take all of your employee’s responses into consideration and evaluate what, if anything, you can do to improve your work relationships, company policies and more. By making it a habit to constantly learn from your associates, you can gain tremendous success in your combined efforts to maximize your business.
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Amuse
I love the idea of this – but what do you do when the employee refuses her review entirely? I tried to do a verbal review and that ended before it began with the employee giving me, her employer a personal dressing down. Tried again with a written performance review, which ended the same way, and included a door slam…
Needless to say, that employee fired herself, which was not my intention at all.
All in all, people DO still need to remember whose name is ON the check, and whose name SIGNS the check.
Laura Cohen
The employee review process can be damaging instead of helpful. Thank you for your wisdom and suggestions. Hopefully managers will take these items into consideration.