Dealing With Performance Review Anxiety
Posted in Job Performance
Performance reviews have become a common occurrence in the workplace setting. Almost all of the employees today have to go through performance reviews or appraisals that allow managers as well as employers a means to gauge or assess an employee's quality of performance for a certain time period. In this manner, the though of going through a performance review or evaluation can be a dread to a lot of employees today.
Performance review anxiety has become a common problem for many employees. Dreading that time when they are about to be evaluated for performance can really be quite stressful. Although performance reviews are aimed to help build a employee's career, they can also be a means to exhibit an employees' shortcomings which most would really try to avoid doing. Not only can performance review anxiety happen to employees, it can also happen to the managers tasked to prepare, evaluate and document each employee's performance reviews each time period.
For employees, one of the means to cope with performance review anxiety is to learn more of the performance review process. Typically what happens during a performance review is that a manager tries to compare your performance over a certain time period against the job description for your position and the goals and standards of the company. Other points that are also reviewed includes dependability and the capacity to work with others. During a performance review, employees should try to focus on trying to check out the goals as well as performance objectives as stated in your job description.
Another thing to get the anxiety out of every performance review is by doing your homework. Your accomplishments for the year would be scrutinized and you may need to back it up with proof. And when you do have to mention your accomplishments during the review, try to be honest and clear about it. Performance review are not merely done in order to see if the employees did perform well or not, they are also a means to help employees improve.
Looking at a performance review in a negative light will not fully achieve its actual purpose which is to help develop the careers of each employees. Through a performance review, managers and employers will not only be able to learn about the strengths of the employees but their weaknesses as well. This will help managers to provide the necessary training that an employee might need in order to improve and enhance the necessary skills and knowledge required by the company. This would require effective communication between the employee and the manager, employer or whoever handles the performance review.
