Performance appraisal: Manager's guide to performance review

Unlock the secrets to effective performance appraisals and help your team thrive with this easy-to-understand course!

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Brief Summary

This course is all about helping you nail performance appraisals! You'll learn how to conduct them in a way that actually helps your team shine instead of causing stress. With practical tips and real-life examples, you’ll be set to help everyone unlock their potential.

Key Points

  • Understand the various terms used in appraisals.
  • Learn the aims and benefits of performance appraisals.
  • Discover ways to motivate and engage employees during appraisals.

Learning Outcomes

  • Conduct appraisals that motivate rather than intimidate.
  • Set clear and achievable SMART targets.
  • Identify and utilize key competencies during appraisals.

About This Course

Discover how to encourage development so that each person in your team achieves their full potential.

In some organisations the periodic formal meeting between a manager and a member of staff is called a performance appraisal.  In others it’s just called an appraisal; or an appraisal review or a performance review – the terms vary.

The aims of these reviews can also vary.  They can include: improving performance; assessing achievements against objectives; reviewing levels of competence; solving problems; developing the employee’s skills and career; and setting fresh objectives.

The aims of the appraisal tend to reflect the priorities of the organisation.  It is important, though, that the appraisers who are being trained reflect on what they want to get from appraisals and on what they think appraisees will want.

There has to be something in the appraisal process that will be seen to be of benefit to the participants – failure to recognise this has probably been one of the root causes of the lack of success of so many appraisal systems.

Appraisals can be a cause of anguish for both the person being appraised and the appraiser.  But the good news is that properly conducted appraisals can be hugely rewarding for both parties.

Achieving higher performance does not happen automatically; success depends on the human skills of the person at the sharp end – the appraiser.  Very often – with the best intentions – managers get appraisals wrong.  This training resource has been especially designed to help them get it right!

Based on accumulated research findings and practical experience from across the world. This Skill Boosters course complements widely differing appraisal processes by concentrating on the universal aims of appraisal – making a fair and accurate assessment of performance and carrying out the appraisal discussion in a way that motivates appraisees rather than turning them off.

Properly conducted appraisals can be hugely rewarding to both appraiser and appraisee, whatever their level or organisation.  This resource will help appraisers to discover how they can encourage development so that each person in their team achieves their full potential.

This Skill Boosters course uses dramatised scenarios to highlight the key learning points and provides opportunities for managers to observe best practice in planning for and conducting the appraisal meeting.

  • structure a successful appraisal interview

  • identify and use competencies

  • set SMART targets

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At Skill Boosters we work with leading subject matter experts to design, develop and deliver effective video based training for the workplace.  We are passionate about delivering impactful training which helps to build productive, tolerant and inclusive individuals, teams and workplaces and which improves lives and life chances. Our courses combine video drama, expert analysis, documentary sequences and interactive study...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Paula-Anne Porter Jones
Paula-anne P. J.
2.5
1 year ago

Its okay but its old - the images/persons are from a time gone by

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ui-avatar of Pam Steele
Pam S.
4.5
2 years ago

Yes, as a manager it is good relevant information.

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ui-avatar of Jim Bubenko
Jim B.
4.0
2 years ago

it gave me some good ideas

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ui-avatar of Mark Visetchaisi
Mark V.
4.0
2 years ago

Proper and useful technics

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ui-avatar of Katy Aldrich
Katy A.
3.5
3 years ago

Video quality not great but useful content and easily digestible in 1 go, will be reviewing prior to running appraisals

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ui-avatar of Patricia M Bulleit
Patricia M. B.
4.5
3 years ago

I like how each part of the performance review is broken down and how they show the mangers ability to encourage the employee to share her opinions first.

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ui-avatar of Craig Powe
Craig P.
3.0
3 years ago

This course provides good next steps for only the first few videos, then plays out like an acted show without the suggestions for the last sections, as if it has forgotten it was to be a Udemy course. The scenarios are all very real and relatable, but the structure of teaching is missing in intentionality to the end

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ui-avatar of Alexis Kremer
Alexis K.
4.0
4 years ago

This training covers the main takeaways of a performance appraisal process, I liked the emphasis on positive feedback and dealing with difficult situations examples

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ui-avatar of Sherri A Stephens
Sherri A. S.
3.5
4 years ago

So far - yes.

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ui-avatar of Rajalekshmy Nair
Rajalekshmy N.
4.5
5 years ago

yes

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