Keep abreast of employee lifestyle expectations

In all this it would seem that current six-monthly or annual reviews are not adequate, in most cases, for establishing enough about future wants and needs. Most performance reviews concentrate on tasks and results. They are very specific. In other areas they assess people management abilities . What is most probably needed is not another review but an opportunity at least once each year to ask some open -ended questions about an employee's world. Because if lifestyle comes ahead of workstyle then we need to know what the big issues are, the emerging issues, the ˜life' issues of that person. If we can track an employee's changing expectations we can truly engage with them. Hey! We might even make them respect us again!