Seven Deadly Sins Of Performance Management Tips

The City of Nashville Human Resources Performance Management Website lists a number of great performance management tools and tips. One handout lists the
Seven Deadly Sins of Employee Performance Management:

I. Making performance evaluation an annual event                                   

II. Doing performance planning & evaluation TO employees

III. SURPRISE – you stink!

IV. Including what you heard about, or assume is true, in an evaluation

V. Giving exceptionally good (or bad) performance evaluations without balance or explanation

VI. Basing an evaluation on just how you did last week

VII. Having a performance conversation with someone as they walk down the hall (or a similarly bad setup) 

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