Personal Performance Review Phrases
Personal performance reviews show a company how an employee is rising to or shying away from expectations on the job. Unfortunately, reviewers often have dozens or even hundreds of reviews to write. Without a variety of vocabulary to describe what employees do and are like, the reviews can end up reading like a broken record. Making an effort to switch up what you say makes the documentation sound less monotonous and repetitive.
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Attitude
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Attitude phrases should encompass the way the employee generally approaches his work. Some positive words related to attitude include resilient, encouraging, motivating, determined, cheerful, harmonious and enthusiastic. Negative attitude words include overbearing, uneven, moody, unstable, instigating and apathetic. The best way to use these words to describe an employee's attitude on reviews without repeating "attitude" over and over is to use them in conjunction with an action and impact related to the attitude. For instance, you could write, "John approaches his coworkers cheerfully at all times and thus has excellent on-the-job relationships."
Punctuality and Timeliness
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Evaluating punctuality and timeliness on the job is important in reviews because punctuality and timeliness generally translate into higher productivity. That, in turn, usually means more profit for the business. Good time-related phrases and words include schedule-attentive, ever-present, multitasker, adheres to deadlines and quick. Poor phrases and words include late, doesn't watch the clock, fails to use time well, takes longer than needed and doesn't deliver by due date.
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Performance
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The performance part of the performance review is the section that deals with the employee's specific tasks. This section is vital because good performance usually forms the basis for contract renewal, raises and increased fringe benefits and promotions. Indicate good performance with words and phrases such as meets objectives, produces desired results, exceeds job expectations, high-quality, dependable, innovative, viable, creative and reliable. If an employee performs poorly, try phrases and words like needs improvement, disappointing, below goals, not resourceful, doesn't think outside the box, doesn't solve problems alone and needs to take some risks.
Communication
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Communication is perhaps one of the most important aspects of any company -- without it, employees may fail to understand objectives or tasks and productivity can suffer. To praise good communication, words and phrases like speaks authoritatively, always clear, gets in touch promptly, delivers proper information, goes through proper channels, follows protocol, asks excellent questions, adept communicator, encourages discussion and provides necessary feedback all work. Less-than-stellar communication could be described with muddy, doesn't encourage openness, confusing, creates emotional distance, ambiguous, harsh and documents poorly.
Management and Leadership
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Those who rise in companies often do so because their bosses recognize their ability to direct others in a competent and supportive way. To show this recognition on a performance review, use ideas like accepts challenges, guides others well, provides clarity for others, rises to meet crises better than others, makes good decisions, exceptional support, source of answers and motivator. In a bad review, concepts like follower, doesn't offer solutions, creates conflict, resists change, ineffective, too unstable, easily manipulated and needs to improve socially will work.
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