Business Buddhism

Your staff member’s performance is your performance.

To perform, everyone needs three things:
1. Motivation
2. Understanding of the goal
3. Means to achieve the goal

If your staff member is falling short on any of the three, it is your mistake.
For 1, it is either your failure to motivate, or your hiring and firing failure.
For 2, it is your briefing failure.
For 3, it is your management failure if their skills are inadequate or the structure and resources around them are insufficient.

In most professional situations a principle motivation is in place. That means any failure of your staff or your team is squarely your failure. As the manager, the performance review of your staff member is your opportunity to learn what you can do better. If you are doing all the talking, something is going terribly wrong!