Employee Self-Assessment

Employee feedback on how they think they are performing is a valuable part of the appraisal process. Once you have defined your competency libraries, you can build an employee questionnaire. Building your own questionnaire from scratch is easy, and there is also a collection of pre-built questionnaires in the system.  

Activ Appraisals enables you to schedule your chosen self-assessment questionnaire to be sent well in advance of a planned performance appraisal. You can also choose whether to send questionnaires individually or across the department as part of the preparation process. 

Activ Appraisals gives you total flexibility in configuring specific questionnaires for different levels and types of employee. Questions you could ask include: 

• How well have you performed since your last review? 
• How would you rate your own skills? 
• How have you contributed to team working? 
• What is your attitude to work? 
• What do you think your key objectives for the next six months should be? 

Competency Libraries

Activ Appraisals enables you to evaluate employee’s demonstration of key performance standards and competencies. You can define your own competency libraries to suit your organisation structure. For example, libraries can be set up at different levels such as Directors or Middle Managers. 

Each competency can be set up with a description and then several statements or questions that underpin the definition. 

360 Degree Reviews

If your current appraisal process relies on feedback from a single line manager, you may be missing out on valuable feedback from peers, colleagues and external sources. 

360 feedback is a method of performance appraisal which gathers feedback from a number of different sources that include peers, direct reports, more senior colleagues and even maybe customers. This variety of feedback can offer line managers a wide-ranging perspective and help to make performance management a much more balanced and informative picture of your people. Activ Appraisals provides you with a flexible solution that enables you to combine self-assessment feedback with anonymous input from colleagues and external sources if desired. This enables you to appraise your people like never before. 

With Activ Appraisals the process is easy and straightforward. By integrating into your company culture, you can then use this overall picture to strategically set smart goals for your people – improving performance and ultimately your bottom line. 

Line Manager Preparation

Activ Appraisals can support the Managers preparation for planning the appraisal meeting with the employee. Managers are provided with the relevant information in order to assist with their preparation:.

Appraisal Meeting

Activ Appraisals provides a pre-formatted online appraisal meeting form that ensures all the relevant information is captured depending on the type of appraisal: 

The meeting between the employee and manager can then be fully documented. 

Key Objectives

The appraisal cycle is typically built around setting, reviewing and then re-setting key objectives, Activ Appraisals supports you every step of the way. 

Most organisations define that each objective should be SMART – specific, measurable, agreed, realistic and time limited. Where each objective must be in an area over which the employee has control and each objective has a deadline. 

Activ Appraisals can be configured to help with deadlines by using in-built trigger alerts to inform the employee, line manager and HR of the deadlines agreed. This can further reduce the time spent for the administration process of making appraisals a success.