7 Ways Your Boss Can Mess Up Your Evaluation
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Susan C.
Anna Johnson has identified five behavioural mistakes that bosses make in performance evaluations. I’ve added two other factors that might contribute to a boss giving you a bad performance evaluation. If you can recognize that the following mistakes, attitudes and behaviours say more about your boss than they do about you, it might help you find a way to take the higher path when responding to your boss. If you can respond as calmly as possible from a non-defensive place, you might be able to defuse an intense discussion and hopefully recalibrate the level of respectfulness observed in the discussion. The following suggestions have to be tailored to what you know about your boss’s attitude to receiving feedback, and your overall comfort level with speaking up for yourself and giving your boss feedback.
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