Appraisal Skills

Appraisal Skills

This one-day course is designed to provide delegates, through a series of practical activities, with the essential skills of undertaking staff appraisals.

Courses are are available most weeks as well as the following dates: 5 Jan, 15 Feb, 25 Mar, 19 April, 9 May, 14 June, 6 July, 11 August, 16 September, 17 October, 8 November, 7 December, 4 January

This course covers a wide range of skills including:

Welcome and Introduction 
Why have appraisals?
Purpose and benefits of having staff appraisals 
Barriers to effective appraisals

Role and responsibility of the appraiser 

Effective Appraisals - Planning and Preparation 
Preparing the appraisal plan 
Fairness and equality 

Information gathering evidence supporting the data 
Relating the appraisal information to the organisation's staff appraisal and development plan 
The Appraisal Meeting 
Good communication, balanced discussion 

Questioning and listening skills 
Feedback - providing clear and specific feedback 
Resistance - overcoming resistance and handling unco-operative appraisees 

Performance 
Performance - current v previous 
Reviewing good performance 
Dealing with poor performance - identifying the causes

Appraisee development - defining areas for development 
Objectives - setting clear objectives and using SMART techniques 
Review 
Personal Action Plan 

Recent comments:

Holger from Pepperl+Fuchs: "Good training with good discussions. Able to focus on my specific challenges and I will from now on, involve staff more in finding the solutions and measurement of performance".

Ryan Birchnall of Palletforce said that the "One to One Training and understanding the process through to the required outcomes was most valuable" to him!

From Neil Williams of Topcon: "Very knowledgeable and interesting delivery: I now have a clear objective of what is required to fulfil my role". "What I will do differently now is think, listen then act!"