Performance Management and Appraisals

Appraisals are one of those things that you probably know you should be doing but don’t quite know how or why. Having the right system will help you identify how your staff tick and what they want to achieve. Your team may want to take on new challenges, have great ideas on how to save the Company money or even how to get more business. Appraisals help you manage your staff more effectively. LinkHR will help you set up an easy-to-use appraisal system.

We can even deliver appraisal training at your workplace for your managers. Providing you with forms to follow that will help the meetings run smoothly while covering the important areas.

We can even talk you through the specific areas of concerns that you may have and give you suggestions on how to deal with these tricky meetings. When the meetings are over we will help you source good quality training to actively address any problems you identify.


What is performance management?

Performance management should incorporate:

  • Performance improvement - throughout the organisation, in respect to the organisation and individual team effectiveness.
  • Development - fosters continuous development amongst individuals and teams for improvement
  • Managing behaviour - individuals should be encouraged to work in a way that fosters better working relationships.

Performance management is about establishing a culture where employees take responsibility for the continuous improvement. There is no one -size fits all approach each needs to be specific to business context and flexible.


Performance Appraisals

The performance appraisal is a main tool used in Performance management and is the most visible tool used by many organisations. LinkHR can help develop an appraisal process where individuals managers can assess performance, potential and development.


360 degree feedback

An alternative to the traditional appraisal arrangements and is usually based on line manager assessment. This is based on collection of performance data from a number of sources, typically including people who report to the individual, peers and internal and external customers.