Frequency Of Staff Reviews: Quarterly Vs. Annually
By Jerry Hayes OD | in
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1/14/2010 - 3:05 pm
Dear Dr. Hayes,
I agree with your advice on staff evaluations but, would go even further and recommend quarterly performance reviews.
I started out with traditional annual reviews and felt it just took us too long to improve our staff. If they know what goals they need to work on and what is expected of them regularly, there will be less stress on both of you.
In my practice, quarterly reviews literally take about 5 minutes unless we have a problem employee.
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Frequency of Staff Reviews
I believe in a yearly formal evaluation. What I have found to work best is whenever there is an issue, policy or procedure to discuss, we try to deal with it as soon as possible. Dealing with the situation at the time it occurs prevents it from happening again before the next evaluation or worst being forgotten about. Within the yearly evaluation deficiencies, goals and ways to attain the goals are discussed. A time frame of three to six months would be too short to resolve deficiencies and attain goals in most instances.