Giving Employee Feedback

For many managers this is a chore. It's extra work that many find unnecessary when they work with these people and berate them everyday *wink*. Of course feedback is a little more structured than just having a quick "you're doing that wrong" conversation.

Many employees dread the evaluation meeting. Many places it is just a joke, and more of an anxious meeting where you more or less just hear some random things that you aren't excellent at, but at the same time you get almost no feedback. Knowing you aren't doing something perfect doesn't help much if there is no extra effort to break it down. May as well just be reading the label off of progesterone supplements since many of these meetings tend to feel almost scripted and the same for everyone.

How do you make feedback a priority, and make the employee feel like this is being used constructively rather than as a "warning" session? Here is a list of 5 Productive Feedback Steps.