Formats: 4-hour virtual course | 1-day instructor-led onsite
In this course, we will teach you what components to include in an effective performance review and what skills to assess. You will learn how to word evaluations with winning and legally defensible language and how to learn from past reviews. You will learn how to avoid common pitfalls, and identify best practices to evaluate in a review
Learning Objectives »
- Review strategies for performance reviews.
- Compile and organize relevant data.
- Develop measurable performance goals.
- Explore scoring and weighting options.
- Apply techniques for writing accurate, defensible, and
motivational reviews.
Course Agenda »
Performance Review Strategy
- Why Write Performance Reviews?
- Evaluation Learning Outcomes
- Purpose of Performance Reviews
- Challenges with Performance Reviews
- The Review Process
- Performance Review Cycle
- Components of Effective Reviews
- Common Skills Assessed
- Scoring and Weighting Options
- Distribution of Ratings
Writing Effective Reviews
- Approach to Writing Effective Reviews
- Doing Your Research
- Monitor and Document Performance
- Avoiding Bias
- Performance Standards and Criteria
- Leveraging Past Reviews
- Contributions, Results and Impact
- Justifying Ratings
- Making It Measurable
- Individual Development Plan
- Performance Goals
- Self-Review
- Ways to Organize
