Six Months and Beyond: Acknowledging Milestones

Prior to the meeting, share these questions with your employee:

• Accomplishments: What major tasks and goals were achieved in the past 6 months?
• Strengths and Opportunities for Growth: Identify employee strengths and areas for development.
• Clarification: Address job responsibilities and company policies.
• Optional: Quantity and Quality of Work: Assess work completion and quality.

Select 1-2 relevant attributes for discussion:

• Knowledge of the Job: Evaluate expertise and areas needing improvement.
• Relations with Supervisor and Co-workers: Assess responsiveness, teamwork, and communication skills.
• Attendance, Initiative, and Capacity to Develop: Evaluate attendance, proactiveness, and willingness to learn.

Discuss 1-2 applicable skills:

• Possesses Functional Knowledge and Skills: Evaluate expertise, training needs, and contributions to best practices.
• Building Trust: Assess honesty, reliability, prioritization, and commitment to organizational goals.
• Effectively Communicating: Evaluate listening, influencing, adaptability, and stakeholder communication.
• Collaborative/Customer Service Focus: Assess respect, approachability, teamwork, and openness to ideas.
• Solving Problems/Taking Initiative: Evaluate problem-solving skills, decision-making, proactivity, and root cause analysis.
• Delivering Results: Assess task management, receptiveness to feedback, self-improvement, and leadership accountability (if applicable).