You have set up annual appraisal interviews, in particular to take stock of the work accomplished by your employees, set new objectives, and better understand the expectations and difficulties encountered by your employees. This could also be an opportunity to reframe them or to congratulate them, depending on the case.
To get a better result, dissociate the annual interview from the issue of the annual salary increase, even if it is not easy.
Why not organize individual interviews as a first step, then tackle the issue of salary increases in a few weeks? The dialogue will be more constructive and your employees will not seek to justify themselves on the criticisms leveled at them ...
