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Performance reviews shouldn’t be dreadful. In this guide, we help you get performance reviews right
Performance reviews can feel stressful. 😬
You want to help employees improve and inspire them. But you want to be subtle. More importantly, you want to dodge any trouble with HR when your only intention is to help.
Below, we talk about the meaning of performance reviews and provide example phrases you can use to convey feedback clearly, yet subtle.
A performance review is the process of assessing an employee’s performance over a certain period. The idea is to provide employees with actionable insights on how they can improve and acknowledge their strengths. 🏆
It’s also a great way to help employees understand the company’s goals better and how they can align their work with those goals.The problem? Performance evaluations can have a psychological impact.
Your team might get the wrong message from your review if you call them to your office and go:
You don’t want to demotivate the employee, but still help them through actionable feedback. So when providing constructive feedback, sandwich it between positives. 🥪
Your aim is to maximize performance reviews’ effectiveness without causing the employees to resent you.
So how do you communicate a performance review effectively?
Remember to lay the groundwork for the next performance appraisal once you’ve completed the current one. Set achievable goals for the next month, quarter, or year, and periodically check in with the team to offer help.
Allocating time to one-on-one meetings might be impractical. But you can use a tool like Assembly to guide the team quickly.
For example, you can use Assembly’s One-on-One Direct Reports template to check in on the team and provide help without investing time in an in-person meeting. Here’s more on how Assembly can help:
Below are 50 positive performance review examples you can use for inspiration. The examples are categorized based on the area of review.
You should always start and end with the positives. But you also want to help the team grow, and that’s why you need constructive criticism.
Choose your words carefully when providing constructive feedback. You want the team to understand why something is a problem and offer recommendations on how they can work on it.
Here are some examples for inspiration:
Performance reviews don’t have to be dreadful, time-consuming tasks. Instead of just viewing reviews as a task to check off your list, use them to help the team grow by following performance review best practices.
Now, in-person performance reviews can be a time-hog. ⏰
Using a tool like Assembly makes employee reviews easier with customizable workflow templates. For example, you can use the Manager feedback template to provide reviews quickly and anonymously.
The team can ask questions about the feedback using the comments section. More importantly, they’re less likely to feel reluctant about asking questions when you’re not sitting in front of them.
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