This document provides guidance for employees preparing for their annual performance review. It discusses evaluating your own performance over the past year, including progress made, barriers faced, job satisfaction, and level of challenge. Employees are instructed to create career development plans with measurable and time-bound performance goals for the coming year. The document also provides tips for self-review, setting goals, and making the most of the actual performance review meeting.

1. TMP/Hudson Global Resources
Annual Performance Review

2. Preparing for your Annual
Performance Review
 Lee Thomas

3. What is Performance?
 Ability
Personal skills and knowledge.
 Effort
Degree of application and motivation to the tasks /
objectives.
 Opportunity
Available work, personal development and learning,
timeframes, resources and facilities, recognition.

4. Self Review
 Consider your progress over the last
year.
 Identify any barriers that, may have
restricted your performance
 Your level of Job satisfaction
 Your level of challenge.

5. Career Development Plan/
Performance Goals
 Identify your performance goals for
next year.
 Actions required to assist you to
achieve your goals.

6. Next Step
 Consider your short and long term
goals.
 Are they achievable - what
support/tools do you require to
achieve these goals.

7. Preparation
 Ensure you have your last
performance review document with
you.
 Include any documents that support
your performance – scorecards,
project plans etc.

8. Performance Goals
 SMART
 Specific
 Measurable
 Attractive
 Realistic
 Time Framed

9. Bringing goals to life
 Develop a Desire
 Record your goal
 Identify the obstacles
 Time frame your goal
 Create a plan
 Get a mental picture
 Back your plan with persistence

10. The Manager’s Responsibility
 Track Progress
 Continually assess needs
 Make changes in consultation with staff
 Manage expectations
 Provide support, assistance and feedback

11. Examples of Questions
 Likes / Dislikes – current motivation
 Factors restricting performance
 Major Achievements
 Measure of Performance
 Performance Targets / Developmental
Activity
 Learning and Development
 Improvement Goals
 Agreed commitment and outcomes

12. Making the most of your
Performance Review
 Review your objectives and goals prior to your meeting.
 Consider information that supports your level of achievement for each
objective.
 Consider what factors contributed to either meeting or not meeting
these objectives.
 Were there any additional achievements not covered?
 Ensure that your plan moving forward meets the needs of the
business.
 Be open, honest and positive.
 Ask clarifying questions.
 Be objective and willing to consider alternatives or new ways of doing
things.
 Use feedback to improve your performance.
 Help provide solutions – ask the question of what else can you do.