{"id":3105,"date":"2011-07-06T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2011\/07\/06\/how-do-you-feel-about-performance-appraisals\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:16:13","slug":"how-do-you-feel-about-performance-appraisals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-do-you-feel-about-performance-appraisals\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Feel About Performance Appraisals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 1 is always a big day around here at the Next Level Purchasing Association. For example, we launched the SPSM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Certification on that day in 2004. We launched the SPSM2<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Certification on that day in 2009. And July 1 is the day that salary increases for Next Level Purchasing employees go into effect each year.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>You know what that means, right?<\/p>\n<p>It means that performance appraisals precede the salary increases. Therefore, I\u2019ve recently completed performance appraisals for my team, which led me to ponder some things.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that I\u2019ve been in a leadership position for well over a decade, I\u2019m still wrestling with the idea of performance appraisals and how they should be done. Though management textbooks and training tend to advocate a very formal performance appraisal process, I tend to handle performance appraisals a little less formally.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few reasons why.<\/p>\n<p>First, every single member of the Next Level Purchasing team does an absolutely fantastic job. Really, each one of them is a superstar at what he or she does. They don\u2019t need a performance appraisal to kick them into gear. They are extremely self-motivated. Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m good at the hiring process. Or maybe it\u2019s luck. Whatever it is, my team is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I\u2019ve observed the performance appraisal process for many years going back to the companies I was with prior to founding Next Level Purchasing as well as observing the performance appraisals done and received by colleagues. And I\u2019ve drawn one conclusion: that even if a leader tells an employee 100 of their strengths and one of their \u201cdevelopmental areas\u201d (those management textbooks tell you you have to give both positive AND negative feedback but to sugarcoat criticism by calling weaknesses \u201cdevelopmental areas\u201d), the employee will stew on the criticism and the feedback that was intended to improve performance actually hurts morale and, as a result, productivity.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I do think it is helpful for a leader to recognize the good work of his\/her employees. With leaders\u2019 busy schedules, having recognition on the calendar in the form of an annual or semi-annual required performance appraisals can help ensure that it doesn\u2019t slip through the cracks. And I know that some organizations require formal performance appraisals to collect evidence in the event an employee needs to be fired at some point.<\/p>\n<p>But what are your thoughts on performance appraisals? If you\u2019re a leader and you had the flexibility to do them the way you wanted, how would you do them? Or would you do them at all? If you\u2019re not in a leadership position, how do you feel about the way(s) that your performance has been assessed throughout your purchasing career?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m interested in your thoughts \u2013 use the comment link below to share them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 1 is always a big day around here at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Do You Feel About Performance Appraisals? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-do-you-feel-about-performance-appraisals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Do You Feel About Performance Appraisals? 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