Reviews can also help ensure employees are recognized for their work and are being provided the right training opportunities to acquire further skills, which can be beneficial for both the employee and the College.
Performance Management Resources
Having a culture of collaboration helps organizations maximize employee knowledge and capabilities. Ideas and information spread more easily when employees communicate and collaborate across teams, departments, divisions, and campus, which can have a positive impact on employee and company performance.
Annual Performance Review
Performance reviews allow for an overall assessment that helps people prioritize and when managed professionally, openly, and honestly, reviews can help enhance working relationships, understanding of personal and professional goals, and performance.
Annual Performance Review Instructions
View guidebooks and recorded sessions for completing the Annual Performance Process as an employee and supervisor.
Annual Performance Review Paper Template
A paper option for beginning an Annual Review (supervisor or employee) that can be copy and pasted into the Cloud Annual Review Process application.
We encourage supervisors and employees to work together to develop a frequent routine over the course of the year. The following options and resources are to serve as a guide in the development of this pilot performance process, but again, supervisors and employees are supported in making this process their own.
Additional Performance Review Resources
Connect Performance with Competencies
View this guide on how to evaluate performance in relation to competencies.
Effective Performance Review Resources
View tips on how to deliver an effective performance review.
Employee Feedback and Self-Evaluation
View this for system instructions for employee feedback and self-evaluations
Supervisors Feedback and Evaluations
View this for system instructions on supervisors feedback and evaluations
Performance Management is a Year-Round Process
Review of an employee's performance is a comprehensive, year-round process consisting of goal setting, routine check-ins, and an annual review.
- Goal Setting: (30-45minutes) Set employee's and department's key accomplishments for the coming year.
- Weekly Check In: (5-10minutes) Short, concise check ins focused on building rapport
- Bi-Weekly Check In: (20-30minutes) Spotlight conversations emphasizing productivity and solutions
- Monthly Check In: (45-60minutes) Flexible conversations accommodating a range of topics
- Quarterly Check In: (60minutes) Extended discussions developing longer-term goals
- Annual Performance Review: (60-90minutes) Summary of the year’s accomplishments, improvements, and determining goals and priorities for the upcoming year.
Goal Setting Resources
Annual goal setting is an important practice within the workplace. Researchers have found that setting goals can help employees feel a greater connection to their organization. Not only does this contribute to increased optimism in the office, but it also encourages better employee performance
Goal Setting Worksheet
The purpose of the goal-setting conversation is to decide what each employee and department's key accomplishments should be in the coming year.
Setting Goals Using SMART Methodology
LinkedIn Learning online course helping you set employee goals that are SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
Defining and Achieving Professional Goal
LinkedIn Learning online course helping you identify what's most important to you, and provides specific strategies for achieving your goals
Check In Resources
Frequent and routine check-ins allow supervisors and employees to foster teamwork and strengthen healthy working relationships by clarifying expectations, shifting priorities, and well-being.
It is recommended that supervisors and employees engage in weekly or bi-weekly one-on-one meetings with a combinations of other routine check ins, including an annual summary each year. With well documented weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly check ins, an annual review has practically written itself.