Always communicate with your employees, experts say by Julie E. Williamson Performance evaluations can go a long way in improving employee skills, boosting morale and even retaining workers. Unfortunately, some managers are merely using the reviews to fulfill a human resource requirement rather than using them to the facility's and employee's best advantage.
Performance reviews can provide managers with another way to motivate employees.
They are powerful tools that can help build management and employee skills. First, they shouldn't wait for a scheduled annual evaluation to give employees praise or constructive criticism. I think it's a good idea for a supervisor to praise at least one action by a nursing assistant every day. But praise isn't the only way to motivate employees. Welsh suggests that supervisors and employees sit down and jointly discuss goals, questions and concerns.