I spent a large part of the morning completing a 360 review of my administrative assistant because her contract is up for renewal. What a complete or near complete waste of time!
I have never liked these reviews. Suppose my assistant, let us call her “Sharon” is doing a good job? If I simply fill out the 360 form and say “Excellent” in every box it looks like I am not serious about filling it out. Alternately, if I really take the time to fill out the evaluation form and present it to the HR office with every little flaw in Sharon’s work performance then it looks like Sharon has all sorts of problems and is a lousy assistant and she isn’t.
Why can’t the HR office simply ask a couple of fairly obvious questions?
1. Do you recommend a new contract for this person?
2. Do you recommend a step on the pay scale for this person?
3. If not what are your recommendations?
a. Why
b. Why
c. Why
Unless I want her fired I don't see the point of this type of evaluation. When I need her to do something I ask and she does it. If she needs to be trained in a procedure I train her. She is not perfect, none of us are but she does a wonderful job. I just don’t see how these evaluations help?
Until Next Time
Fai mao
The Blogger who has a really, really good assistant
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