Annual performance reviews

Annual performance reviews are an opportunity to boost motivation and productivity

Are you using staff appraisals to their full potential?

Annual performance reviews are a powerful tool in unlocking the true potential of your employees – if you do them correctly.

Employee performance reviews can be fantastic at motivating your team. Staff appraisals are held annually, and with each employee individually.

Appraisals involve:
  • Reviewing and setting KPIs (key performance indicators).
  • Measuring progress against previous KPIs.
  • Assessing the overall growth and development.
  • Setting a training and development programme for the coming year.

A great goal for employers is to work towards a no-surprise approach at annual performance reviews. That means the employee is given sufficient feedback throughout the year in quarterly reviews and one-on-ones, so the end-of-year appraisal is smooth and stress-free for all parties.

Taking the hassle and admin out of staff performance reviews

There are numerous challenges for business owners around the annual performance appraisal process.

For one thing, it’s remembering to do it: it’s easy to lose track of time, and before you know it, a year has passed.

The other challenge is finding the time to do the preparation work, meetings, reviews, and reports.

Our experienced team of HR experts at ConsultingHQ is here to help you – and we’ve got some tricks up our sleeve too!

The cool tool we use to keep everything organised and to make sure time doesn’t get away on us is EMS Hub HR software. The People Management Toolkit helps you proactively manage and report on performance reviews, training and development, and more.

The software creates reminders and automations: for example, it lets you know when quarterly or annual reviews are due. You can even report on the completion rate of the reviews – either company wide, or by location or by department. There are built-in collaboration tools and approval systems too, and it lets you keep track of training costs so you can manage your budget.

Hands-on help with staff appraisals and reviews

For the ultimate in HR management, our experienced team can manage all your staff reviews on your behalf on-site. Not only does this save you an immense amount of time, but also clients report that employees tend to be much more forthcoming with us as a third party. So you get better quality feedback and input from your team.

“ConsultingHQ has assisted Furtex with HR services for a number of years. The consultant comes on-site to our premises to conduct annual performance reviews for the team, which means they have a clear understanding of our business requirements and our strategy. I feel we have fewer HR issues arising as a result of structured annual performance reviews – we run on a ‘no surprises’ policy.”

Ben Heath, Furtex

“ConsultingHQ has assisted Furtex with HR services for a number of years. The consultant comes on-site to our premises to conduct annual performance reviews for the team, which means they have a clear understanding of our business requirements and our strategy. I feel we have fewer HR issues arising as a result of structured annual performance reviews – we run on a ‘no surprises’ policy.”

Ben Heath, Furtex

Download our Annual Performance Review guide to help you harness annual performance reviews to their full extent to unlock your team’s true potential.

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