Use this step by step explanation to craft a good employee performance feedback review for a cataloguing archivist. Find the right words with quality phrases.

A Cataloguing Archivist is responsible for assembling, cataloging, preserving, provision, care, and management of the permanent collection of historical information that is intended to safeguard the past and allow others to discover it. This position works with a wide variety or public and private sector organizations and may require a single hand to assume a lot of responsibilities.

Primary responsibilities include producing teaching materials, evaluating selecting, retrieving and arranging materials, answering enquiries, storing and preserving perishable documents, making the archives accessible to a wide range of users, identifying and bidding for funding, negotiating the acquisition of new collections, supervising staff and budgets, specializing in the care and provision of particular types of information like maps and videos.

Employee Performance Review Sample

Employee's Name: Title:
Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ Employee SSN:
Work Location: Supervisor's Name:

Instructions

  1. Rating: Rate the employee against the core skills based on how well he/she demonstrates each skill. Give scores 1, 2, or 3 for each rating depending on the employee's performance.
  2. Comments: Use this area to give examples of employee's performance phrases. The phrases should describe how well an employee has performed on previously set goals based on the given core skill.
  3. Summary: Use this section to give a summary of the employee's strengths and areas for improvement or development. Recommend a step increase for an employee who has met the expectations and performance improvement plans for one who doesn't meet expectations.
  4. Human Resources Review: Human resources manager must examine and indicate whether he/she concurs with the evaluation and comments. If the manager agrees, then he/she must sign the evaluation form. If he/she doesn't concur, then he/she must provide reasons explaining why this is so.
  5. Signatures: Sign the evaluation form and give it to the employee to go through and answer the Self Evaluation Questions. Ask him/her to sign and date the evaluation form before giving it back to the human resources for filing.

Rating Meaning

The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies.

1

Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results.

2

The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work.

3

Supervisor's Feedback

Skill

Comments

Rating

LISTENING SKILLS: Listening Skills are a practical ability to accurately receive and interpret messages you receive during the communication process to ensure flow and accuracy are maintained.

Connects to what others want or feel and tries to be in their shoes.

Uses correct body language and gestures when listening to other people talk.

3

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS: Interpersonal Skills are a set of abilities that enable a person to positively interact and work with others effectively while avoiding office disputes and personal issues with each other.

Knows how to listen actively to others when they talk and does not interrupt.

Recognizes and manages the effects of personal stress and of those who are around properly.

3

FACILITATION: Facilitation is making tasks or life easy for others while ensuring the daily running of successful meetings or workshops or business at large.

Makes sure to keep the focus of the conversation on the issue or situation at hand

Sets up an environment that facilitates discussion; one that everyone can see each other in order to encourage discussions between team members

3

DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE: Dealing with Difficult People is learning how to tactfully calm down an obnoxious person who is either verbally attacking you or stealthily criticizing you or your professional contribution.

Asks the difficult individual a question regarding the issue, such as, "Why do you feel this way?" in order to show them that one is willing to find the source of the disagreement

Avoids confrontational body language, such as maintaining eye contact for long periods of time or making aggressive gestures

2

NETWORKING: Networking is the process that encourages an exchange of information and ideas among individuals or groups that share the same interests.

Keeps a website with one's professional experience in order to save time spent enumerating own skills to a new contact

Presents oneself as someone helpful, appealing and worth knowing in order to achieve one's networking goals much more effectively

3

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND DIVERSITY: Equal Opportunity and Diversity means having employees from a wide range of background that includes different ages, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief, educational background, physical ability and treating them equally.

Respects both genders and shares work equally without overlooking some of them

Does not choose who to submit to rather yields to all managers

3

POTENTIAL FOR ADVANCEMENT: The potential for Advancement is the ability to make something better by being more skillful, more efficient, and more useful to produce high-quality results.

Listens and adheres to active counsel regarding the business strategies

Takes work seriously giving it the required commitment the company asks

2

PROJECT AND GOAL FOCUS: Project and Goal Focus is setting your mind and heart on things that matter and add value to your life against those things that add no value at all or of little value.

Makes a to-do list at the beginning of each day or week in order to feel motivated to accomplish own goals

Sets a realistic time estimate for each project and tries to complete each one of them within the confines of each time limit

3

BUSINESS ETIQUETTE: Business Etiquette is a basic framework of rules set by companies to ensure and allow you to understand the way you should conduct yourself in the professional world.

Shows exceptional respect and politeness when interacting with others and is extremely pleasant to work with

Excels at making introductions in meetings and always starts with introducing the person who ranks highest

3

TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS: Technology Trend Awareness is staying updated with the useful upcoming trends that can serve your business better and easier.

Possesses multiple certifications in modern technology fields and is working extra hard to get more certifications

Shows in-depth understanding of how to manage online confidentiality, privacy and security

3

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

LISTENING SKILLS:

Have you ever been interrupted by a speaker in the middle of a conversation?

Do you in most cases ask relevant questions when having a conversation?

[employee comments]
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

Do you find it easy to strike a conversation with other people?

Do you always seek to influence people in a good way and support them in their efforts?

[employee comments]
FACILITATION:

Is there a time when you have faced challenges when coordinating a group? How did you overcome the challenges?

Is there a time when you assigned different tasks to group members, but the work was not done as you expected? What do you think was the problem? How did you fix it?

[employee comments]
DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE:

Can you describe a time when you have had a conflict at work? How did you solve it? What could you have done to avoid it?

When you work with a group of people, disagreements are common. Can you describe a time when you handled a disagreement in your workgroup? How was it solved?

[employee comments]
NETWORKING:

Describe a networking event that changed your career life. What was the event about? What happened?

What are some of the things you don't like about networking events and networking in general?

[employee comments]
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND DIVERSITY:

Are you lost in your world such that you don't care about others?

Are you available when your colleagues need you to help them?

[employee comments]
POTENTIAL FOR ADVANCEMENT:

Do you fully commit yourself to serve your company and do your best?

Do you accept positive criticism that is meant to help you improve your expertise?

[employee comments]
PROJECT AND GOAL FOCUS:

Is there a time when you have involved other employees in developing your goals? Give an example

What are some of the things that get you distracted when trying to achieve your goals? How have you handled this?

[employee comments]
BUSINESS ETIQUETTE:

What efforts are you making to improve your dressing code?

What would you like to improve about yourself in order to be more pleasant to work with?

[employee comments]
TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS:

Can you describe a situation where you successfully utilized the power of virtual workplaces to save time and money?

Have you ever advocated for the implementation of modern technologies that can assist in sharing and storing data more efficiently?

[employee comments]

Summary

Sections 1-4: To be completed by the supervisor

Section 5: To be completed by the employee

1. Exceeds Job Related Expectations

2. Areas to improve

3. Goals completed since last performance feedback

4. Goals for next period

5. Employee comments

Signatures

I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal.
Employee: Date:
Supervisor: Date:
Human Resources: Date:
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