Employee Performance Review software is one of the best tools that managers use to determine how well their employees perform regarding the company’s goals and objectives. Conducting a performance review provides clear communication between employees and management.
- Ensure the successful operation of a business organization
- Align individual goals with the organization’s goals more easily
- Encourage a positive relationship between employees and management
- Keep management informed and address arising issues promptly
- Increase employee engagement and motivation
- Provide both the employee and the employer with a chance to discuss things that are working and those that are not
- Provide clear communication regarding work responsibilities
- Identify training needs
Best Practices for Employee Performance Reviews:
- Performance reviews should be a two-way conversation.
- Take time to look back on employees’ behavior and achievements.
- Managers should act as coaches, not as judges.
- Establish clear next steps.
- Set clear expectations.
- Give regular feedback (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually).
- Give specific feedback, both positive and negative.
- When giving negative feedback, make sure to build an action plan for improvement around it.
- Give employees the time to read their performance reviews.
- Share responsibility in a collaborative and open feedback process.
- Give employees recognition for contributions and coaching for improvements.
- Align individual tasks to team and departmental goals.
- Clarify expectations and resources.
- Commit to continuous improvement and follow-through.
- Use clear, concise language.
- Focus on observable and measurable performance.
- Avoid vague statements and exaggerations.
- Have multiple people provide feedback for each employee.
- End the review on a positive note.
- Discuss both positive and negative performances regularly.
- Describe exactly what you aim and look for from the employee and exactly how you will assess his/her performance.
- Never go into performance reviews without preparation.
- Spend as much time as possible on the positive aspects of an employee’s performance.
- Conversation is key to a productive performance review.
Employee Performance Review Solutions
Forms with predefined fields help your team keep accurate and uniform records.
Use any of these easily customizable form templates (edit it to customize or even create a new one from scratch).
Customizable forms allow you to:
- Easily edit or create forms with zero coding and no technical expertise
- Add different types of fields, edit fields, and remove fields
- Tweak forms easily at any time
Samples of fully customizable forms
- Add an unlimited number of attachments (documents, images, photos, videos, audio notes, files) to a record
- Add, remove, and assign new team members — all with a few clicks, at any time
- No technical expertise is required
Set up and roll out business software in hours, not months.
How to start:
- Create your account and create a new applet by selecting a customizable template. Set up reminders if you want your team members to receive automatic email reminders.Easily configure who will submit entries and who will view them.
- Users will click the “Open Submission Form” button to fill it out and submit it. Set the applet as “Team-wide” if you want all team members to view each other’s records.Alternatively, you can allow each participant to view his/her own records only and stakeholders to view all entries.
- As soon as a new record is added, participants with “View” rights will receive an email notification and can view it in real time on the Timeline screen.
- The dashboard screen allows you to save time when you want to check a high-level overview, with quick one-click retrieval of the relevant information.
ProsperForms:
- Collaborative work
- Easily retrieve data
- Export data or share it online with configurable access permissions for each member
- Allow support for different business scenarios with granular permissions for team members and team guests
- Configure email reminder alerts for your employees
- View data in real time
- Access historical data instantly with powerful search and filters
- Access data from any device with mobile-friendly and easy-to-use interface