How To Grade Your Employees
How can you tell if an staff member is a good match for your company? How do you judge employee performance? For that matter, is there a specific qualifying measure you should use whenever deciding who to promote or who to let go?
By survey, personnel-related difficulties are among the 3 main causes of stress for employers. And, although I’m not an employment attorney and therefore am unable to apprise you on the particular laws and regulations of your own state or local jurisdiction, there are several straight forward guidelines you can follow that can make these types of issues considerably less difficult.
You Are An Executive
As a business owner, you are, by default, an executive. As such, your thinking on staff problems must be firmly rooted in the concept that continued employment as well as promotion is predicated exclusively on an employee’s job performance and productivity. It shouldn’t wind up being centered around individual friendships, who knows who, or even longevity, for that matter.
You could consider that when you are paying a Schedule Coordinator, you are “buying” a more productive schedule. If you don’t, in turn, receive a more productive schedule, then it’s an unsatisfactory purchase.
Productivity: Criterion For Employee Performance
In order to use productivity as your qualifying measure, you’ll have to precisely measure every person’s productivity. This can be difficult in a dentist office because staff members normally perform so many different jobs that they aren’t responsible or accountable for any one specific thing. In the event that your employee’s job description is hazy (i.e., “to assist you” or “do just a bit of everything”), you haven’t anything tangible to evaluate their job performance by, besides your own opinion, occasional individual observation, or even whether you and the other staff members “like” them.
It’s basically very simple: give them a job. Give them something specific that they are responsible for – e.g., production (scheduling), collections, new patients, proper room set-up, etc. These are all things that may be measured as a statistic, and you should monitor them. If a person is responsible for marketing so as to attract in new clients, note down the number of new patients you obtain each week or month on a graph and see if the trend goes up or down. It either is or isn’t. It will tell you whether the individual is carrying out their job or not. When you do this there isn’t any opinion involved. It’s a hard fact.
Should you wish to boost the statistics of your business (Who is the audience for the article? Is this going to communicate? Increase the number of patients you service?) and expand as a company, then you would need to keep staff that are building and expanding their areas, by statistic. On the other hand, what if a staff member is regularly causing production in their area to go down or continue flat/level? And it can’t be fixed…well, you’ll be able to work out the rest.
Now of course, there’s more involved with applying this (coaching along with support for supervisors, etc.), and we teach our clients all about this on the MGE Power Program. One of the other factors it is best to understand is that a person has a responsibility for being a pleasant staff member, showing up when they’re due, regularly attending work, and also contributing to a smoothly working company. So a good attitude and presence on the job are also important. But nonetheless, a good attitude without any work productivity still doesn’t work.
Look at it this way: Your company is there to deliver expert services for patients. Increased work productivity results in more services. Someone who is productive has been doing their own part to support the team. Somebody that isn’t (regardless of how pleasant they are) isn’t. This doesn’t mean that those people who are not productive are “bad.” It just means that perhaps they aren’t cut out for your business. I can think of plenty of people I’ve let go that I would have no problem having lunch with. I just wouldn’t work with them!
If a person’s production by statistic is incredibly good, they are worth more to the organization and should be treated as such. If my Financial Coordinator was, by statistic, an extremely high producer and also arrived late to work one morning, there might be the smallest amount of discipline. However, if they were late and also had crashed productiveness for a period of time, you will probably find me significantly less tolerant.
A Highly Productive Team
A very successful and prosperous practice is built by a highly productive team. And yes, being friendly and getting along with the staff members is a good thing, but the primary quality to consider in evaluating your staff member’s performance is definitely production. And you measure that by hard facts, not by opinion or by “how much people like them.”
When you start this, you will notice that it’s important that you don’t make two people responsible for the exact same thing, since you won’t know who’s in fact getting this done. If there’s a blunder, may very well not be able to tell who did it. If the numbers increase astonishingly, you don’t necessarily understand who was the cause, either. Therefore, make one person ultimately accountable for a task. You should, of course, have employees cross-trained in advance, in case someone is out sick or is overloaded. Still, always make one person responsible with regard to every area.
If you take care of things as outlined by these guidelines and always keep employment-related conclusions strictly performance-based, it will keep opinions and personalities and feelings out of it and provides a clear cut method in relation to addressing staff concerns; and it makes this whole subject a lot less stressful.
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