Reviewing past performance
Featured in the Skills of Appraisal and Performance Review training manual
By Val Rowland & Ken Birkett
Category: Performance Management
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Reviewing someone’s performance in the immediate past period is a key appraisal activity. A manager will be aware all the time of the contributions of team members. The occasion of the review meeting and preparation for it brings each individual for whom the manager is responsible to the forefront of attention. It provides an opportunity to reassess individual achievements on behalf of the enterprise. It is also a chance to help people mesh their career aims together with job and business trends. From the appraisee’s viewpoint, it is a time to take stock and, perhaps, fine-tune career aims and job progress. Achieving an accurate assessment of past outcomes and considering that alongside someone’s strengths and weaknesses is key for the organisation and each person.
The training activity opens with a brief introduction to the importance of reviewing past performance, both for the organisation and its employees. The participants first complete a questionnaire designed to simulate the preparation required for reviewing their own performance. In doing so, they also consider their personal competency. This is followed up with a discussion of the preparation process, rather than their individual results. The participants next prepare, in a similar manner, to review a subordinate. Again, the emphasis is placed on the process of preparing for the review meeting and the issues that come into play. This is reflected in the discussion after the exercise. There follows a brief presentation to the participants explaining how to manage the actual review meeting. The format of the review meeting then gives a structure to a role-play exercise in which the participants take on the roles of appraiser and appraisee in a performance review meeting. Finally, the participants discuss what they learned about performance review from their role-play. The training activity closes with a review and summary of the key learning points.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to discuss the essentials of reviewing their recent past performance. Using themselves as a role model they then evaluate their effectiveness in that task.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:20:00 |
| No of Pages: | 31 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers in performance review training. In addition, this training resource can be used as part of a career development workshop and in support of a business development plan. It is part of a set of essential techniques needed for performance appraisal interviews.
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