Writing a bad review

I am having to write my first bad employee review. I am trying to find words to say what needs improvement, but not a total "you've been bad" words. Anyone have any words of wisdom and/or any links to websites to help me out?

Use the sandwich method for reviews, I always have done. First - something positive, then the bad news and then finish on the positive again - may be a new point that is good. Then its a case of an action plan and away you go. good, bad, good. nailed it, they feel ok, and you also.
K

Thanks Kev, good idea....

What specific area of work is the person bad? Organization, workload mgmt (timeliness of work being completed), teamwork??? I agree with Kev on the idea of also stating the good things, but be specific on the bad stuff and give ideas for improvement.

Originally Posted by GailC

What specific area of work is the person bad? Organization, workload mgmt (timeliness of work being completed), teamwork??? I agree with Kev on the idea of also stating the good things, but be specific on the bad stuff and give ideas for improvement.

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All of the above.

The wheel's spinning but the hamster is dead?
Reached rock bottom and started digging?
Village somewhere is missing it's idiot?
Lights are on but nobody home?

Originally Posted by Purity

Village somewhere is missing it's idiot?

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lights flashing, barriers down, no train coming.
Has the perfect six pack, just lacks the squidgy thing that holds it all together ....
He dropped out of the gene pool
Has only two brain cells, ones missing, the other is out looking for it.....

Pork pie short of a picnic?



Sorry for the thread hi-jack there btw (I thought the second post was a very good suggestion though)

I feel your pain. I'm learning to write reports on my students. (I'm currently preparing for a meeting with one person whos mother will be addending ((rolling my eyes)) and that person decided to try to surf the internet and chat online instead of work and then I found porn on the computer...) I would try to instead of making it totally negative, suggest it as an area where they could improve. That is how my boss usually does things with the students and it works well. Like say one person is consistenly late. She would just be honest and brief about it. Fortunately in our line of work we also get to use the line 'In the real work world, an employer will not put up with such and such.' We also use the line '____ is not professional office behavior.' Unfortunatley I'm thinking what I will have to say at the meeting about that one person I mention, what I have to say will not be positive no matter what way I find to say it.