Hmmm… its tricky isn’t it? No one wants to be the Grinch CEO or MD who has the ‘performance conversation’ on the eve of Christmas, or worst case, end employment. While, many businesses cannot afford to carry people over December/January who are not performing. So what can you do?
First of all, I cant solve all of it here, in a short post, while I will give you a starting point.
You need to have that difficult conversation, while you can do it in a way that serves your values, the values of the organisation and is constructive to the leader.
Here are 3 questions to get the conversation started:
1. What has been your greatest achievement this year, and why?
2. What has been your greatest challenge this year, and why?
3. What plans do you have in place to support your success and better manage (challenge) for next year?