PLMI Day 2

Today, Maggie Bahou gave a presentation on evaluations and managing performance, it was refreshing that she was just rehashing the same old line.  I agree with her that giving feedback to the staff in a productive way makes my job easier and able to get feedback back for myself.  I am firm believer that you should always maintain a dialogue with anyone you work with, allowing them to come to you and work to find solutions to any problem.  Annual reviews will allow me to help find problems not just in my staff, but with my leadership, in doing so I will be able to correct both.  Ms. Bahou gave wonderful examples of how to change negatives to positives, especially by not using numerical systems to grade people, having been on the receiving end of these, I never found them beneficial in any way.