Tips for an Effective Mid-Year Progress Review Meeting

Employee

• Be prepared to provide summaries of your overall performance and specific details
• Listen to your supervisor’s viewpoint, recognizing that his or her perceptions may be different from yours
• Ask open-ended questions to better understand your supervisor’s view of your performance
• Confirm your understanding of your supervisor’s feedback by restating what was said
• Summarize the meeting
• Specify any needed follow-up

Supervisor

• Gather your own data relative to your employee’s performance
• Listen to your employee; don’t make assumptions about performance
• Provide balanced feedback
• Start and end with positive feedback
• Make sure you have specific examples to support performance feedback. Avoid hearsay
• Help the employee summarize the meeting
• Offer on-going help and coaching