By: Miki Ackermann, Culture and Talent Works
It just past the mid-point of the year. Have you started or will you be starting mid-year reviews? Is this something new to you?
Here are 12 reasons why more frequent touch points with staff can benefit your business and its performance.
It is easier to review a few months of work versus a full year of work.
You can achieve better alignment between your priorities and expectations and the employee’s understanding of these priorities and expectations.
These meetings can assist you establish cultural norms, reinforce company values, and appropriate behaviours.
They provide staff with a formalized and structured process to review and plan for career growth and development, with your support.
Most employees prefer having frequent check-ins; it provides them with 1:1 time with you to ask questions and talk about their work, ideas, and personal development.
a. Caveat: make sure you include questions that ask about ideas, development, culture, and feedback on the employee experience in these touch point meetings.
b. For more about employee experiences, check out our blog about employee experiences in the workplace.
Performance issues and other workplace concerns can be identified and addressed promptly, preventing small problems and gaps from becoming larger ones.
Regular check-ins hold employees accountable for their tasks and goal completion and encourage a greater sense of responsibility and ownership of their work.
During these frequent check-ins, you can delegate, follow up, coach, set goals, provide feedback and feedforward, as well as provide recognition, celebrate achievements, and appreciation more often.
In so doing, you will foster an environment that allows employees to build their competencies, knowledge, and skills.
And build up agency, feelings of fairness and involvement amongst your staff.
Frequent interactions show you are supportive, approachable, and hep you build stronger relationships, leading to a more cohesive team.
As a result, you will impact employee satisfaction and engagement in a very hands-on, personal manner.
Conducting more frequent check-ins with your staff can benefit your business by improving alignment, communication, optimizing performance outcomes, enhancing engagement, satisfaction, which in turn will foster a more positive workplace culture.
If you are stumped on how to structure your frequent touch points or need some training and/or coaching on how to facilitate these meetings, reach out to us. The right approach and structure can help these meetings achieve your business goals.
For more information and tips, check out our blogs at www.cultureandtalentworks.com or contact Miki Ackermann at miki@cultureandtalentworks.com.
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