Retaining great talent is key to the Ragon’s success. It is important that we find ways to identify and celebrate members of our community who are going above and beyond, and then take deliberate measures to nurture and inspire them to continue their career at the Ragon. This can be done via constructive feedback, employee appreciation programming, career pathing, and more.
Performance Reviews
The annual review is one way that members of the Ragon community receive feedback. There are different types of performance reviews based on role:
- Performance Evaluation
- The Performance Evaluation is a required annual performance review process for all non-professional staff
- Process Re: Annual Performance Evaluation
- Annual Career Conference (ACC)
- The Annual Career Conference, which takes place on the faculty’s date of hire anniversary, is an opportunity for all benefits-eligible faculty who are employed directly at by the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard
- Process Re: Annual Career Conference
- Annual Career Plan (ACP)
- The Annual Career Planning Meeting is a necessary component of the annual review process for MGH/Ragon Postdoctoral Research Fellows and should be completed annually at least thirty (30) days prior to the Postdoctoral Research Fellow’s hiring date anniversary each year.
Feedback
Providing feedback outside of an annual review is also important. In the future, the Ragon HR will be developing resources to share in this space; in the interim, we have collated some resources from our member organizations, as well as other venues, to share.
Giving Feedback:
- Course: MGBE P-OD Giving Feedback
- Course: MGBE Feedback to Students
- Activity: MIT OpenCourseWare: Giving and Receiving Feedback Activity
- Article Collection: Harvard Business Review – Giving Feedback
- Article: MIT: Giving Constructive Feedback
- Article: MIT: Ongoing Coaching and Feedback
- Article: MIT: The Gourmet Chef’s Guide to Giving Feedback
- Book: Let’s Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower
Receiving Feedback:
- Course: MGBE P-OD Developing a Growth Mindset
- Activity: MIT OpenCourseWare: Giving and Receiving Feedback Activity
- Article Collection: Harvard Business Review – Receiving Feedback
- Article: MIT: Ongoing Coaching and Feedback
- Article: BetterUp: 5 steps to help you be more receptive to feedback
- Article: Are you receptive to feedback? Follow this step-by-step guide
- Book: Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
- Video: 11 Growth Mindset Strategies: Overcome Your Fix Mindset to Grow as a Person
- Video: The key to receiving feedback with a growth mindset
Employee Appreciation Programming – Coming Soon!
Career Pathing
The Ragon HR will be developing career ladders for the role groups at the Ragon, along with supplemental materials to educate on how to use career ladders for career pathing. Stay tuned!