Do you use the performance review as a next step in your career? Or do you go in with weak knees, afraid of the assessment? What is the purpose of a performance review? Is it wise to read reports from previous performance reviews? What are the topics of a performance review?
Fear
Many people approach the performance review with their manager with fear and trembling. It’s not necessary. The performance review gives you as an employee and your manager the opportunity to exchange ideas about the performance of both parties during a dialogue.
What is it?
What is a performance review? A performance review is not an assessment, but is about your performance as an employee. Promotional opportunities lie ahead!
- How do you function in relation to your tasks?
- How do you develop in the workplace?
- Is the shoe pinching somewhere?
- Why does the shoe pinch?
- How is your relationship with your colleagues?
- Is there good communication between you, your colleagues and the manager?
- What can be done better?
- What can change?
Report it!
subjects
What are the topics discussed during a performance review? The topics of a performance review are:
- Setting goals: what are the tasks for the coming period? What are the developments for the coming period?
- What is going well?
- How do you carry out the tasks?
- What are the working conditions and atmosphere?
- What are the development opportunities for you within the company?
- What can be improved? Are there solutions for this?
- How can areas for improvement be applied in the coming period?
Concrete agreements are made on all these topics during the performance review. There is also an opportunity to provide feedback to the manager.
Colleague
You as an employee must be given the freedom to express your opinion about the work, without this having a negative impact on your further career or salary. During a performance review, you as an employee can give your opinion, with the aim of increasing the quality of the work. The dialogue between you and your manager is open and equal!
Personal development
Employees have an increasing need for personal development. The performance review is an ideal way to indicate during the dialogue with your manager where you feel the need to develop yourself at work.
Assessment interview
What is an assessment interview? An assessment interview is not a performance review! An assessment interview often takes place at the end of the year and this interview can have consequences for your salary.
To prepare
How do you, as an employee, best prepare for a performance review? You must realize that the purpose of a performance review is to record your tasks and your developments for the coming period. So:
- What do you want to achieve at work in the near future?
- What is your goal?
- Do you want to develop yourself more?
- Do you want to take courses?
- Do you want to actively participate in training?
- What do you want to achieve in a year?
- What do you want to achieve in a few years?
- Do you want to work in another department?
- Are your current tasks challenging enough?
- Are you dealing with too much stress and stressful colleagues?
- What are the pitfalls at work?
- Which tasks do you want to say goodbye to forever?
Previous conversations
Before you go into a performance review, it is a good idea to carefully read the report(s) of previous conversations. (Your boss does too!)
- Have developments gone according to plan? No? Why not? What is the solution?
- Are the areas for improvement indeed improved? No? Why not?
- Were your tasks carried out as desired? No? Why not?
- Have the business goals been achieved? No? Why not?
- What have you encountered recently?
- Have your ambitions gone as planned? No? Why not?
Also indicate the solutions to the problem during the performance review!
Boss
What would your boss or manager like to know from you during the performance review?
- What is your commitment and attitude? Are you loyal to the company?
- What is your attitude towards other colleagues? How do you work together with colleagues?
- How do you organize the work? Do you prefer to work independently or do you need support?
- Do you work efficiently and do you handle materials and office supplies efficiently?
- How do you deal with safety or other applicable company rules?
- What does the quality of your work look like?
- What are the working conditions like for you?
- What are your ambitions?
- Do you suffer from stress or too much work pressure?
- How do you carry out your position?
- Have you often been ill recently?
Criticism
How do you deal with criticism from your manager during the performance review? Many people completely shut down when criticism comes from the boss during the conversation. Afterwards, these employees are full of questions! Realize that this conversation is aimed at achieving positive results: what can you learn from your boss’s feedback? What can you learn from your boss’s criticism?
Work appointments
Written working agreements are made during the performance review, why? Because:
- During a performance review, it can be determined which agreements have been achieved and which have not.
- The working agreements can be evaluated.
The report of the performance review must be signed by both you and your manager. The content of the performance review is confidential.